Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

THEODORE H. TORBECK

President and CEO, Cincinnati Bell Inc.

Ted Torbeck is President and CEO of Cincinnati Bell Inc. He joined Cincinnati Bell in 2010 as President and General Manager of Cincinnati Bell Communications. In that role, he was responsible for all Cincinnati-based communications businesses, which include Cincinnati Bell Telephone and other wireline companies, Cincinnati Bell Wireless and CBTS.

Prior to joining Cincinnati Bell, Mr. Torbeck was Chief Executive Officer of the Freedom Group, a subsidiary of Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm. In this role, Mr. Torbeck acquired nine companies and integrated them into one entity. Mr. Torbeck worked more than 25 years for the General Electric Co. He served as the Vice President of Operations for GE Industrial Business, President and CEO of GE’s Rail Services business as well as Vice President of Global Supply Chain for GE Aviation.

A native of Cincinnati, Mr. Torbeck earned his B.S. in Marketing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his MBA at Xavier University. He is on the Board of Directors for United Way of Greater Cincinnati and the USA Regional Chamber Board. In addition, he serves on the Minority Business Accelerator Leadership Council for the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and is a member of the Cincinnati Regional Business Committee with a focus on education. He is also the capital campaign co-chair for St. Aloysius and a member of the Board of Governors at the Queen City Club.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• Skip Benamati, Department Chair, Information Systems & Analytics, Miami University
• Ken Bruno, VP Global Supply Chain Human Resources, Schneider Electric
• Stephanie Ferris, SVP Market Services, Vantiv
• Puneet Kapoor, Director of Enterprise Risk Management, Walgreens
• Mike Kennedy, SVP Ethics & Compliance, Cardinal Health
• Jon Fossitt, Director, US Data Solutions Group, dunnhumbyUSA

CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

SKIP BENAMATI

Department Chair
Information Systems & Analytics, Miami University

John "Skip" Benamati is a Professor of Information Systems and Chair of the Information Systems & Analytics Department at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA. John holds a PhD in MIS from the University of Kentucky, an MSCS in Information Systems from Marist College, and a BS in Computer Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. John also has sixteen years of MIS industry experience, ten with IBM and six as an independent IT consultant. His major research and teaching interests are e-commerce trust, changing IT, information privacy, and IT management/strategy. His research has previously appeared in the Communications of the ACM, Journal of MIS, Decision Sciences Journal, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, European Journal of Information Systems and elsewhere.

KENNETH J. BRUNO

VP Global Supply Chain Human Resources
Schneider Electric

Kenneth J. Bruno is the Vice President of Human Resources, Global Supply Chain at Schneider Electric. Kenneth began his career with Schneider Electric on 1987 as a Sales Engineer in Schaumburg, Illinois, later moving onto various Sales management positions in the Midwest area. In 1999, he moved to a corporate position as a Director of Process Improvement in the Sales and Marketing area. In 2002, Kenneth took a leadership position as Director of Customer Service for the US business. In 2006, Kenneth moved to the HR function as Vice President of Human Resources and led HR activities across the company’s U.S. business for the Commercial functions. In his current role, he is responsible for several major areas, including strategic and operational human resources and communications leadership for the Global Supply Chain in North America. Kenneth holds a bachelor’s degree from Calumet College in Hammond, Indiana.

STEPHANIE FERRIS

SVP Market Services
Vantiv

Stephanie L. Ferris is Senior Vice President & General Manager of Financial Institutions. She leads our business that sells to and services over 1,400 Financial Institutions. These services include integrated card issuing & processing, merchant services, ATM Driving & fraud mitigation as well as Advisory Services.

Prior to her current General Manager role, Stephanie led Corporate Strategy at Vantiv and was responsible for leading the development of the Company’s first formal corporate strategy. Stephanie has held several significant financial roles within Vantiv and Fifth Third Bank. Reporting directly to the CFO, she ran Financial Planning & Analysis at Vantiv from 2006 to 2013. Her responsibilities included strategic business planning, financial reporting, financial analysis, pricing, costing, support for investor relations, and merger & acquisition modeling. Stephanie was the Chief Financial Officer of the Company when it was a division of Fifth Third Bank and led the sale of the Company to an external private equity firm in 2009. As CFO, she led all finance functions including Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and the Financial Systems for Vantiv. Prior to that, Stephanie held a number of key roles within multiple divisions of Fifth Third Bank, including the CFO for the Investment Advisors Division. Stephanie joined Fifth Third Bank from PriceWaterHouse Coopers LLP where she was an Audit Manager. Stephanie is a Certified Public Accountant and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Miami University.

Stephanie has a passion around women in the work place. She is the founding member of the Vantiv Women’s Business Network as well as Fifth Third Bank Women’s Network. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Vantiv Women’s Business Network.