Vancouver Live Event: Portfolio Management: Ideas from Finance

Should CIOs consider their development projects as a basket of assets or are they all individually unique? Can financial concepts of diversification and risk be applied to development or are they destined to remain foreign (except in airline magazines)?

Date: Wednesday, January 23rd   
Time: Registration at 11:45am, Lunch 12:00, Speakers 12:30 – 1:30pm
Place: Sutton Place Hotel
Fee: $45 for Members, $60 for Non-members  

Portfolio Management: Ideas from Finance

Join us on January 23 as Susan Schincariol, Executive Consultant IBM Global Technology Services and Lyle R. Langlois, Director, Private Client Group / Investment Advisor Dundee Securities each share their views on MPT and answer questions from a senior executive audience.

Susan Schincariol is an Executive Consultant in IBM with over 17 years of experience in both the public and private sector.  While building on a technical background, Susan has spent the last twelve years primarily in advising senior executives on IT strategy, governance, process improvement,and organizational change.   Her experiences include transformational efforts such as centralizing IT departments, creating Centres of Excellence, developing clients' portfolio management approaches and capabilities, and guiding organizations on establishing their overall governance.  Susan is a former member of IBM's Worldwide Technology Strategy Leadership team, an accomplished speaker in IBM's Technical Leadership Exchange program, and a mentor in the Vancouver chapter of Wired Woman.

Lyle R. Langlois, Director, Private Client Group / Investment Advisor Dundee Securities runs an investment advisory partnership of more than $200 million. A Fellow of The Canadian Securities Institute, Lyle was a director and executive of Great Pacific Management (4 billion in Assets underManagement) and in 1999 was actively involved in the merger of Great Pacific into a national independent brokerage firm. Lyle was recently voted one of Canada's 5 finalists for Investment advisors of the year (for quality of advice not production). *          

To register for this event please RSVP via email to admin@ciocan-national.ca.

This event is generously sponsored by Octothorpe Software Corporation - A Decision Sciences Company.

Dr. Peter Tingling, Ph.D., MBAAcademic Liaison