Computerworld - February 27, 2012

Vice president, strategic
initiatives, NBC News, NBC
Universal, New York
Aditya
Fotedar
CIO, Wyse Technology,
San Jose
A new title
added to
your IT
organiza-
tion:
What’s the most important
task you’ve delegated this
year?

A recent great deal from
a vendor:
A job re-
sponsibility
you’d like
to delete: IT
is all-encom-
passing, so
when IT guys start thinking
about what’s not part of their
jobs, then they aren’t doing
their jobs correctly. There is
no concept of “my job versus
your job” at Wyse. That mind-
set simply doesn’t exist here.

Maryann
Goebel
Gregory J. Fell
Vice president
and CIO, Terex,
Westport, Conn.
AN INTEGRATION TASK TAPS THIS CIO’S DEPTH OF EXPERIENCE
Senior vice president and
CIO, Celestica, Toronto
A new title
added to
your IT or-
ganization:
Chief of staff.
Skills you’ll
hire for this year: Business
intelligence.

New titles
added to
your IT or-
ganization:
The characteristic that’s
most important to you in
an IT hire:

When the oFFer cAMe in 2009 to join financial services tech giant Fiserv as its cIo and execu- tive vice president, Maryann Goebel, 61, didn’t have much to chew over. For someone who has long been a leader in the IT industry, with a résumé that includes stints as CIO at Frito-Lay, General Mo- tors North America and DHL Express, Goebel knew
the value of a company that truly gets technology. “It was quite an
exciting opportunity,” she says. “At Fiserv, it’s not an aspiration for I T
to be part of the business. Technology is the business.”
The Brookfield, Wis., company, which provides financial services
technology to banks, thrifts and credit unions, has grown by leaps and
bounds through acquisition over its 27-year history. And as its tech
leader, Goebel has made it her mission to integrate and simplify Fiserv’s
systems. “We’re so fortunate to have her. She’s taken on the task of
creating a fully integrated infrastructure to support the company and its
clients,” says Judy Wicks, vice president of communications at Fiserv.
One recent project is a multiyear initiative to consolidate the com-
pany’s data centers, while transforming the IT unit into a highly lever-
aged, functionally designed group. Goebel says setting checkpoints
and delivering predictable, repeatable and measurable results is key.
Despite the hectic pace, it’s unlikely that the diversity of projects at
Fiserv will get the better of this IT leader. “I thrive on change,” says
Goebel, who seems to have found the perfect spot to do just that. u