12/5/17 By Chris Davis and Brandon Metzger for CIO.com Technology is transforming our world at an unprecedented rate. New technologies like virtual assistants and augmented reality are changing consumer expectations faster than ever. The impact of cybersecurity breaches is intensifying. And digital enablers are allowing upstarts to steal market share from incumbents in a matter of months or years, rather than decades. While it is tempting to believe that these disruptive times will eventually stabilize, our analysis suggests that the rate of technological progress will only accelerate. If this ..read more

12/18/2018 By Peter High. Published in Forbes. Matt Harris has been investing in FinTech companies since before the term was coined. He was initially drawn to the field partially due to the lack of attention it was getting 20 years ago. As he notes, “In the beginning, the incumbents ignored the startups because they thought they were insignificant, and then once the financial crisis hit, they ignored them because they had far bigger problems to deal with.” This was to his advantage. Now, with a great number of winning investments to his credit, Harris has developed deep perspectives in and mad ..read more

12/17/2018 By Peter High. Published on Forbes. Matt Harris has been investing in FinTech companies since before the term was coined. He was initially drawn to the field partially due to the lack of attention it was getting 20 years ago. I recently caught up with him, and we covered the core four segments of FinTech: payments, lending, investing, and insurance. (He also argues in this this interview that real estate is worthy for consideration as a fifth segment.) The broader interview will be published shortly. Of interest in this segment of our interview was his contrarian perspective on bloc ..read more

12/10/2018 By Peter High. Published in Forbes. It has been eight and a half years since General Stanley McChrystal retired from the United States Army. Since then, he has been busy. He has built a thriving consulting firm, The McChrystal Group, which focuses on leadership consulting. He has lectured at Yale University. He has spoken at conferences around the world, and he has written three books, including the best seller, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. His most recent book is Leaders: Myth and Reality. General McChrystal and his co-authors, Jeff Eggers and Ja ..read more

12/03/2018 By Peter High. Published on Forbes. In 2017, John Chambers retired from Cisco Systems, a company he had run for more than two decades. During his time with the company, it had grown from $70 million in annual revenue to $47 billion. Once he retired, he had a chance to reflect on his career, as well as to plot his next move. The former led to his authoring a new book Connecting The Dots: Lessons For Leadership In A Startup World. The latter would have him starting his own venture capital firm, JC2 Ventures. Chambers now offers capital and advice for start-ups who wish to follow the p ..read more

11/26/2018 By Peter High. Published on Forbes Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) is a $13 billion dollar global life and health reinsurance entity based in St Louis, Missouri. A few years ago, the company developed a subsidiary called RGAX that is part innovation lab and part venture arm, focused on transformative initiatives. On its own site, RGAX is noted as “embracing the talent, resources, and more than 40 years of insight and innovation experience. RGAX partners with carriers and entrepreneurs to fuse industry expertise and outside capabilities.” Two years ago, when RGA sought a ..read more

11/26/2018 By Peter High. Published on Forbes. Next month, Sasan Goodarzi will become the Chief Executive Officer of Intuit. He once made his ambition to rise to the CEO role clear to his superiors, and as they cottoned to the idea and more officially put in him the succession path for CEO, he was exposed to each business unit of the company. He notes in my interview with him that, though it was important for him to make his hopes clear, he also gained even more mightily when he focused on more on enjoying the jobs he took on for the opportunity and learning that each offered. His three most r ..read more

11/19/2018 By Peter High. Published in Forbes. Shaleen Devgun is a remarkable innovator in the chief information officer community. For the past three years, he has been the CIO of $4 billion Schneider National, a trucking and logistics company based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. You might suspect that running IT for a trucking company based in Green Bay might be an enormous challenge. His burden is a shade lighter inasmuch as two other members of the executive committee at Schneider National are former CIOs, including the company’s CEO Chris Lofgren. (In the past, I interviewed Lofgren about his r ..read more

11/13/2018 By Peter High. Published in Forbes. Dinu Parel has been named the new Chief Information Officer of Parker Hannifin Corporation, a Mayfield Heights, Ohio-based maker of motion and control technology products. Parel succeeds William Eline, who had been with the company for 40 years. Prior to this role, Parel was CIO of Downers Grove, Illinois-based Dover Corporation, where he was the industrial conglomerate’s first ever CIO. I interviewed Parel earlier this year, in which he spoke about transforming IT from a traditional, back-office support function to an advisory function ..read more

11/12/2018 By Peter High. Published on Forbes. Ralph Loura joined Lumentum on October 22 as the company’s new chief information officer. Lumentum is a $1 billion revenue manufacturer of optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Until recently he was the Chief Technology Officer of Rodan + Fields. “Ralph brings unparalleled information technology experience from premier companies to Lumentum,” said Alan Lowe, President and CEO, Lumentum. “He has a true passion for problem solving and innovation and is an industry-recognized IT ..read more