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The TBM Council is a nonprofit organization made up of forward-thinking CIOs and senior IT executives who operate with a central mission:Establish and promote business management standards and practices that empower IT executives to collaborate with their business partners to identify and execute impactful technology strategies to achieve corporate objectives. The TBM Council empowers its members by providing three primary services:CollaborationThe Council offers collaboration opportunities through our annual global conference, regional executive summits, industry workgroup meetings, teleconferences, and more.StandardizationThe Council creates standards of TBM practices and principles through the TBM framework, the TBM taxonomy, business-value KPIs, and TBM playbooks.EducationThe Council provides programs that help advance members' careers through research, an authoritative TBM book, and the TBM Executive Foundation Certification Course.

AutonomIQ has pioneered the industry’s first “Autonomous Testing” platform that uses AI for autonomously testing and detecting quality issues in software products. By introducing autonomous testing in the software engineering and IT lifecycle, AutonomIQ helps development teams test 10x faster than approaches that use traditional test automation tools and improve coverage 2-3x at scale.

As CTO lead Rodan + Fields’ global information technology organization, defined and advanced technology strategy and operations to support the company’s significant growth momentum. Also, oversaw the Information Technology, Engineering, Project Management and Digital Product Management teams, reporting to the President and CEO.Defined and advanced the company’s technology strategy and infrastructure to support its significant growth and to deliver user-friendly digital experiences. In his two years at R+F he led an organizational transformation that included; scaling the business and e-commerce platform to 3X volume and revenue, entrance into a new country market, expansion of product line, complete rebranding across all digital assets, establishment of a virtual (video) platform supporting 100,000s of 1,000s of subscriber/viewers, and numerous operational stability and security improvements across all production landscapes.Hyper-scaled business, growing $500M a year in e-commerce sales two years running.

Vice President and CIO of HP’s Enterprise Group, a $28 billion annual revenue business that included server, storage, networking, technology services, and cloud solutions.Served as the CIO for HPE’s Enterprise Group and HPE Labs where he was a part of the core executive leadership team that led one of the largest corporate separations in history, splitting HPE from HP, Inc ensuring continuity of service, compliance with separation agreements and regulatory requirements and establishing a new cost and service base to support the two independent organizations going forward.

Senior Vice President – Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this role, leads Clorox’s information technology organization and directs The Clorox Company’s strategic technology initiatives.Loura joined Clorox in 2010 as VP, CIO. In March 2014, was promoted to SVP and appointed to the Clorox Executive Committee. During tenure at Clorox, led several significant technology transformations for the company, including a multiyear initiative to integrate operations in Latin America into the enterprise resource planning systems. In 2012, Computerworld selected as one of its 2012 Premier 100 IT leaders, and in 2013, Consumer Goods Technology selected as CIO of the Year.

Provide transformative technology leadership to a fast growing mid-market pharmaceutical and medical device company. Responsible for all aspects of IT, office services, field services, real estate and business intelligence. Responsible for turnaround of IT reputation for performance and service levels. Established multi-year strategic plan, managed and delivered multiple large enterprise projects concurrently on time and on budget.•Full SAP lifecycle implementation supporting HR, ESS, MSS, FI, CO, SD, SRP, GRC and BI accomplished on time, on spec and on budget with excellent client satisfaction levels.•Full Salesforce.Com lifecycle implementation and evolution providing efficient, effective and highly compliant sales force field and sales operations support with record internal customer satisfaction levels.•Delivered new corporate HQ (an award winning 150,000 sq ft build to suit project) on time and on budget with excellent customer satisfaction levels.•Complete Infrastructure technology refresh including new building wiring, switching, MAN, WAN, WiFi, VoIP, DataCenter and new service delivery methods.•Consolidated >80% of servers and >90% of storage to virtual server and storage infrastructure resulting in lower operational costs, higher availability and greater flexibility vs. traditional computing model.

• Led successful $100M Business Transformation - Operations: Supply chain overhaul from build to stock to assemble to order - Decision Support: Consolidation of reporting and several custom data warehouse. - Portal: Collapsed dozens of independently managed intranet environments w/hundreds of pages and thousands of objects into two centrally managed portal environments build upon SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 - HR: Deployed manager self-service and employee self-service human resources solution . - Sales: Deployed CRM Portal establishing connection between pipeline management and supply-chain execution. - Product Management: Led strategy and execution for overhaul of Product Lifecycle Management process. - Core IT services: Drove execution of client service organization outsourcing to IBM Global Services (help desk, desk side, printers, and a conversion from Novell Netware/GroupWise to Microsoft AD/Exchange. In excess of 5,000 seats were impacted world wide.

IT Executive responsible for computing infrastructure for all R&D organization within Cisco world wide. Separately, responsible for computing infrastructure for all Cisco locations in North and South America with the exception of the San Jose corporate headquarters.- Responsible for overall IT infrastructure for a large client base (16,000 users) geographically distributed to over 100 U.S. sites, 9 Canadian sites and 12 LATAM countries.- Led an organization of 200+ associates and an additional 150-200 contract resources. Direct budget responsibility of $100M and indirect for an additional $100-150M.- Conceived of and led the world's largest (at the time) deployment of IT Telephony of over 18,000 handsets across two continents.- Drove considerable data center and server consolidation, multiple data center moves and top to bottom network re-engineering and migration.- Responsible for integration into engineering of 22 acquisitions in a 12 month period.- Established a formal change management methodology and culture, and evolution to a service oriented culture with focus on metrics and service level management.