Global CIO Value Forum: Additional Panelists Confirmed

Dublin, OH, August 01, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Glomark-Governan has confirmed additional panelists for its upcoming Global CIO Value Forum, an event designed to present best practices for measuring IT value and IT portfolio management, at the Columbus Hilton at Easton on October 2nd, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio.

Confirmed panelists include: Zahid Afzal, EVP & CIO, Huntington Bancshares Incorporated; Kristen Blum, SVP & CIO, Abercrombie & Fitch Co.; Angelo Mazzocco, Chief Information Officer, Progressive Medical, Inc.; Brad Perkins, Vice President of Platform Development, CheckFree, now part of Fiserv; Robert J. Richardson, Chief Information Officer, Worthington Industries, Inc.; and Denise Zabawski, Chief Information Officer, Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Steven I. Cooper, former CIO of the Department of Homeland Security and the American Red Cross, and current partner of Strativest, LLC will serve as the keynote speaker in addition to his panelist role.

Glomark-Governan, in collaboration with the confirmed panelists, will discuss best practices for adopting a standardized technology/project selection and valuation process, which enables IT organizations to consistently and objectively forecast and measure IT value.

Glomark-Governan helps enterprises around the world by providing them with the methodology, training, consulting, benchmarking research, and software tools necessary to assess, communicate and measure the economic value of investments in technology and services initiatives. Glomark-Governan has enhanced and refined its Economic Value Creation ( EVC™ ) Methodology for more than a decade, bringing to market a proven, complete solution that allows companies to justify their solutions’ value, define operational and performance metrics, assess economic risk, and quickly create project-specific business cases. For more information, please visit www.glomark-governan.com or contact the Glomark-Governan headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA, at 614-761-2400.

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