2010-2011

SIIA Board of Directors Elections

The SIIA Board of Directors is the team that makes decisions and sets priorities for the Association at large.  These are your representatives, and you will want to have the best possible advocates for your interests.

SIIA prides itself in having an open process for electing its volunteer leadership.  The process for getting elected to the SIIA Board of Directors is simple: any full member of SIIA who feels they can commit the time and energy is eligible to run for a seat on the SIIA Board of Directors.  Members are self-nominated according to the process outlined below.

The SIIA Board has seventeen seats. In the upcoming election, we will elect nine (9) new Board members to two-year terms.  The nine (9) new Board members will join the returning six (6) members.  This new Board will then appoint two additional Board members to one year terms. The two Board-selected members are usually picked for balancing purposes, since elections may leave one or more segments of our membership under-represented.  For your reference, the returning Board members are:

Suresh Balasubramanian, Director, Worldwide Anti-Piracy, Adobe Systems, Inc.

Daniel Burton, Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy, Salesforce.com

Kenneth Glueck, Vice President, Oracle Corporation

Bernard F. (Bernie) McKay, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Intuit

Tom Rabon, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Red Hat, Inc.

Ken Wasch, President, Software & Information Industry Association

If you, or a person from your executive team, are interested in running for the SIIA Board, please have a brief campaign statement (not to exceed 200 words), sent to Marnel Williams (mwilliams@siia.net) no later than Friday, March 26, 2010.  The campaign statements will be bundled together and emailed to the principal contact at each SIIA Full Voting member company.  Members will be able to vote online through a password secure system.

2009-2010 SIIA Board of Directors Elections

The following current Board Members’ terms are expiring:

Cindy Braddon, Vice President, The McGraw-Hill Companies

Joseph T. FitzGerald, Vice President, Legal Deputy General Counsel, Symantec Corporation

Kathy Hurley, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Pearson School Companies

Steven Manzo, Vice President, Government Affairs, Reed Elsevier, Inc.

Randy Marcinko, President, MEI

Fiona O’Carroll, EVP, Product Development Digital Products Research & Development, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Scott Schulman, President, Financial Information Services, Dow Jones & Company

Timothy Sheehy, Vice President, Worldwide Intellectual Property & Standard Policy, IBM Corporation

The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) and Finextra, the leading independent newswire and information source for the worldwide financial technology community, announce a new partnership to produce a series of webcasts in 2010.

The FISD/Finextra Webcast Series will focus on real‐time data management and delivery, reference data, and standards. The events will be hosted in‐studio and broadcast via real‐time streaming video to an invited audience of financial professionals. Participants will be able to interact with panelists to deepen the value of the discussion.

Alternatively, webcasts may be recorded and then broadcast via the web at a specific event time. Both versions will be offered on an on‐demand basis after the web event for additional exposure.

Tom Davin, Managing Director of FISD, stressed the value of the new webcast series to the industry: “A survey of FISD members revealed that more of them would like to interact with FISD programs and thought leadership via more sophisticated technologies. Our partnership with Finextra aims to provide timely and relevant topics and discussion to our member base and beyond via interactive video content.”

The FISD/Finextra Webcast series creates new opportunities to advance thought leadership and industry expertise. Firms interested in organizing panels and presentations will be able to address leading industry topics while connecting with a wide base of existing and prospective clients.

Combining Finextra’s community of 135,000 monthly users and the FISD’s global membership of 140 firms provides sponsors with an excellent outreach platform. Over 2,500 market professionals have registered to attend Finextra video webcasts since March 2009.

Nick Hastings, Managing Director of Finextra, highlighted the value of the Finextra/FISD Webcast series: “This new service will provide the industry with a forum to discuss and learn about key issues affecting global data management via emerging and innovative communication mediums.”

About Finextra
Finextra Research provides an independent online resource – www.finextra.com – to serve the information needs of the worldwide financial technology community. It covers finance‐specific innovations, services, solutions, applications and technologies. Finextra also provides a database of 31,000 financial technology news stories, a comprehensive solutions directory and a catalogue of company announcements from all major technology providers to banks and financial institutions.