Research Associate
Leading Edge Forum

Currently a Research Associate of the Leading Edge Forum, Alex was previously Managing Director of the programme.  Prior to this, he had an international career in the chemicals industry in a range of IT professional and management roles before serving for 10 years as a management consultant with CSC Index, and subsequently with CSC's UK Division.

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Global Research Director
Leading Edge Forum

David Moschella is the Global Research Director for the Leading Edge Forum. In this position, he guides a series of strategic research initiatives aimed at helping CIOs and other Enterprise IT leaders understand and exploit the ever-expanding intersection between business and information technology. David’s key areas of expertise include globalization, industry restructuring, disruptive technologies, environmental strategies, and the co-evolution of business and IT.  His most recent published research is entitled The Next Generation of Digital Game-Changers.

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Herman van der Vaart is Vice President for Philips IT Infrastructure, Innovation, Architecture and Security.  Herman has been part of the Philips organization for the past 35 years and involved in IT since the early 1980s.  He was involved in the introduction of a number of ‘disruptive’ technologies in IT like minicomputers and LANs, CAD/CAM, and so on, and started the Architecture and Technology Competence Centre four years ago that has since developed the original ‘Internet Centric’ vision.

Herman is now part of the ‘One Philips’ IT organization; which is responsible for Innovation and cross Program Architecture, working with the different IT Infrastructure Programs to translate vision into reality.

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Tom Verrijk is the Principal Architect for the Microsoft Program and End User Devices Program for Infrastructure at Philips Corporate IT. 

Prior to his current role, Tom joined Philips Corporate IT in 1999 as the architect for Common Office Desktop Environment.  Previously, Tom worked for Philips Display Components where he was an IT Manager for the product and process development department.  At the Business Unit level of Display Components, Tom architected and designed a PDM system that supported a global design environment.  Tom also has experience as a CAD consultant for the Centre of Competence Unigraphics to improve CAD/CAM deployment for Philips on a global scale.

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