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Technology Industry
Co-Chair
John R. Nyland |
John R. Nyland,
Managing Partner, Public Sector, IBM Global Business Services,
IBM Corporation
John Nyland is the managing partner of the IBM’s Public Sector Global Business Services.
In his role, Nyland manages the team of 5000 IBM professionals that provide consulting and systems integration services to the US Federal government, state & local governments, healthcare organizations and educational institutions in the United States.
Nyland has spent the bulk of his 29 year IBM career in government and Public Sector leadership positions. Prior to his current assignment, he was general manager of the Public Sector strategic outsourcing and integrated technology services. He also held the position of Vice President, Sales, US Federal and Vice President of Public Sector Sales for the Americas. He began his career in 1977 in IBM’s Federal Systems Division in Owego, NY.
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Nyland is active in the Maryland technology community. He is currently the chairman of the Board of the Technology Council of Maryland
(TCM), a non-profit organization of over 600 Maryland based companies. He also serves on the board of directors of the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, an organization dedicated to strengthening the connection between the business community and Maryland’s public school system. He has also been a member of Maryland governor‘s commission on Advanced Technology development. In addition to his role as managing partner at IBM, he is also IBM’s Senior Location Executive for the Washington DC area.
Nyland holds a bachelor of arts and a master of business administration degree, both from Michigan State University. He serves on that university’s Eli Broad School of Business Advisory Board.
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Technology Industry Co-Chair
Mike Curreri |
Mike Curreri,
CEO and President, AVIcode, Inc.
AVIcode, Inc. is the leading provider of enterprise application monitoring tools for the Microsoft .NET Framework. AVIcode’s products are embedded and separately distributed by both Microsoft and Quest Software. Prior to founding AVIcode, Mike had gained national recognition as a pioneer in the development of Internet-based collaborative networking tools. Under his leadership as CEO/President, his first company, TrialNet, became the nation’s leader in collaborative networking for the legal community. Mike has brought his experience as a successful technology entrepreneur, business-team leader, and intellectual property attorney to bear in five successful businesses from start-up to management to ultimately development and execution of exit strategies.
Mike’s industry
leadership and community involvement is reflected in his
current volunteer participation as:
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- Board of Directors,
Greater Baltimore Technology Council
- Board of Directors,
Maryland Business Council
- Co-Chairman, Advisory
Board, U.S. Naval Academy (Class of 1973)
- Chairman, Naval
Academy Executive Roundtable
- Member, Knights of
Columbus, Fourth Degree
He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School, a magna cum laude graduate of George Washington University, and has a B.S. in applied computer applications from the U.S. Naval Academy. He was highly decorated for his combat service as a Naval Officer and went on to lead the national litigation law firm of Wright, Robinson,
Osthimer, and Tatum before leaving the practice of law to begin his entrepreneurial ventures.
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