BOSTON, MA., October 31, 2008 – NewVantage Partners is pleased to announce that Joseph Smialowski, a well-known industry executive, and member of NewVantage Partners' Executive Advisory Board, has joined the firm as General Partner. Joe has held key technology leadership roles including Executive Vice President of technology and operations for Freddie Mac, Vice Chairman and CIO of Fleet Boston Financial, where he played a leadership role in the corporate integration following acquisition by Bank of America, and Senior Vice President and CIO of Sears Roebuck. Mr. Smialowski's focus as General Partner will be on helping organizations improve their operational efficiency and effectiveness through reduced risk and cost reduction. He was formerly a partner with Price Waterhouse. Joe holds a BA from Merrimack College and an MS in Computer Sciences from Rochester Institute of Technology.
BOSTON, MA., October 31, 2008 – NewVantage Partners held it’s most recent CIO Roundtable dinner on Thursday October 30 at Aujourd’hui at Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. Participants included current and former CIO’s representing
Citizens Financial/Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of America, CitiGroup, Fidelity Investments, State Street Bank, Liberty Mutual, GE Capital, American Tower, Iron Mountain, EMC, Mohegan Sun, and Best Buy.
BOSTON, MA., August 7, 2008 – NewVantage Partners held it’s most recent CIO Roundtable dinner on Tuesday August 5 at Bouley in New York. Participants included current and former CIO’s representing CitiGroup, Smith Barney, Freddie Mac, Fleet Bank (Bank of America), State Street Bank, Mellon Bank of New York, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Chase Manhattan Bank, Time-Warner, Viacom, Sears, and Professor Lynda Applegate of Harvard Business School.
BOSTON, MA., June 16, 2008 – NewVantage Partners has announced the expansion of its Executive Advisory Board with the additions of Lynda Applegate, Henry B. Myers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and noted author on innovation and technology, and Joseph Smialowski, who was formerly Executive Vice President of Operations and Technology for Freddie Mac, Executive Vice President and CIO of Fleet Boston Financial (acquired by Bank of America), Senior Vice President and CIO of Sears Roebuck, and Partner with Price Waterhouse.
BOSTON, MA., May 9, 2008 – NewVantage Partners held it’s most recent New York small-group CIO and executive thought-leadership dinner on Thursday May 8 at Gotham Bar & Grill in New York. Participants included former Mellon Bank of New York CIO John Fiore, Viacom CIO Joe Simon, Scholastics Deputy CIO Brian Margolies, former Time CIO Paul Zazzera, former MetLife and Chase Manhattan CIO Steve Sheineit, and former CitiGroup Global Consumer CIO Harvey Koeppel, who was recently named first Executive Director of the Center for CIO Leadership.
BOSTON, MA., March 24, 2008 – NewVantage Partners has announced the expansion of its Executive Advisory Board with the additions of well-known industry executives Steve Sheinheit and Paul Zazzera. Steve Sheinheit was executive vice president and CIO for MetLife, and formerly executive vice president and CIO of Chase Manhattan Bank. Paul Zazzera was senior vice president and CIO of Time Inc, and Chair of Time-Warner’s CIO Council (AOL, HBO, New Line Cinema, Time Warner Cable, Turner/CNN, Warner Brothers).
BOSTON, MA., April 11, 2008 – NewVantage Partners held it’s Hartford area small-group CIO and executive thought-leadership dinner on Thursday April 10 at Max Downtown. Participants included Harvey Koeppel - former CIO of the Global Consumer Bank at CitiGroup, and recently named first Executive Director of the Center for CIO Leadership, CIO’s representing The Hartford and Foxwoods, and Deborah Soule, researcher for Professor Lynda Applegate of Harvard Business School.
BOSTON, MA., March 14, 2008 – NewVantage Partners held it’s Boston Business Intelligence CIO and executive thought-leadership dinner on Thursday March 13 at The Boston Harbor Hotel. Participants included executives representing Fidelity Investments, State Street Bank, Boston Private Bank, SunGard, Adidas, Staples, Massachusetts General Hospital, Liberty Mutual, and C&S Wholesale Grocers.
BOSTON, MA., February 27, 2008 – NewVantage Partners held it’s Boston small-group CIO and executive thought-leadership dinner on Tuesday February 26 at Aujourd’hui at Boston Four Seasons Hotel. Participants included current and former CIO’s representing CitiGroup, Fidelity Investments, National Grid, and EMC, and leading author Professor Lynda Applegate from Harvard Business School.
BOSTON, MA., October 27, 2007 – NewVantage Partners has announced the opening of it’s New York office effective October 29, 2007. NewVantage now has offices in Boston, San Francisco, and New York. The company also announced expansion of its Executive Advisory Board with the additions this month of Harvey Koeppel and John Keane. Harvey is currently Managing Director for the newly established Center for CIO Leadership, a collaboration of IBM, Harvard University, and other leading academic institutions. He was formerly Global Consumer CIO for CitiGroup. John Keane is currently Managing Partner of King Hill Capital, a private equity firm. John was previously a member of the executive leadership team for Keane Consulting, and founder and CEO of ArcStream Solutions.
BOSTON, MA., October 26, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Paul Barth was the featured speaker at an Executive Thought-Leadership Dinner held at The Boston Harbor Hotel on Thursday October 25, 2007. The theme was “Leveraging your Organizations Information Assets. Participants included CIO’s, CTO’s, and senior business line executives representing Adidas, Bain Capital, Bank of America, Citizens Bank/Royal Bank of Scotland, Fidelity Investments, iBasis, Liberty Mutual, and Staples among others.
BOSTON, MA., September 20, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Paul Barth was a featured speaker along with former CitiGroup Global Consumer Banking CIO Harvey Koeppel at an Executive Thought-Leadership Dinner held at Per Se restaurant in New York on Wednesday September 19, 2007. The theme was “Leveraging Your IT Data to Improve Business Effectiveness”. Participants included CIO, CTO’s, and business line executives representing AIG, American Express, Bear Sterans, CitiGroup, Freddie Mac, Legg Mason, Lehman Brothers, Marsh McLennan, Mellon/Bank of New York, and Morgan Stanley among others.
BOSTON, MA., August 1, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Randy Bean announces that confirmed speakers for the November 8 CIO panel will include State Street Bank Vice Chairman and CIO Joe Antonellis and Citizens Bank (Royal Bank of Scotland) CIO and EVP Bill Wray. Future Forward 2007 will be held on Thursday November 8, 2007.
BOSTON, MA., July 9, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Randy Bean has been named to the Advisory Board for Future Forward 2007 to be held on Thursday November 8, 2007. Confirmed speakers include Fidelity Systems President and CIO Steve Elterich, and State Street Bank Vice Chairman and CIO Joe Antonellis. Past speakers include Former Vermont Governor and Presidential Candidate Howard Dean, Segway Founder Dean Kamen, EMC Chairman Michael Ruettgers, Cullinet Software Founder John Cullinane, and Boston Scientific Founder John Abele.
BOSTON, MA., May 18, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Paul Barth was featured panelist at the 2007 MIT CIO Symposium to be held on Thursday May 17 in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Barth appeared on the panel “The Changing Role of IT and Marketing”. For further information see MIT CIO Symposium
BOSTON, MA., April 27, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Paul Barth was the featured speaker at an Executive Thought-Leadership Dinner held at the Boston Harbor Hotel on Thursday April 26, 2007. The theme was “Emerging Strategies in Enterprise Data Governance”. Participants included senior business and technology executives representing Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, State Street Bank, Wellington Financial, Iron Mountain, Staples, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
BOSTON, MA., April 2, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Randy Bean will participate in his 7th Nantucket Conference Program on Nantucket Island, MA. The Nantucket Conference, founded in 2000, convenes a small, invitation-only group of New England’s and the nation’s most creative and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, and executives. For further information see Nantucket Conference
BOSTON, MA., February 22, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Paul Barth was featured speaker at an Executive Thought-Leadership Dinner held in San Francisco on Thursday February 22. The theme was “Accelerating Insight-to-Action: How World-Class Companies are Using Enterprise Data and Analytics for Competitive Advantage”. Participants included senior business and technology executives representing Bank of America, Barclay’s Global Investors, Charles Schwab, Fireman’s Fund, Netflix, Restoration Hardware, Sephora, VISA, Walmart, Washington Mutual Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and Yahoo.
BOSTON, MA., January 23, 2007 – NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Paul Barth was featured speaker at an Executive Thought-Leadership Dinner held at The Four Seasons in New York on Tuesday January 23. The theme was “Emerging Strategies in Enterprise Data Governance”. Participants included CIO’s and senior business and technology executives representing American Express, AXA Financial, Bank of New York, CitiGroup, Credit Suisse, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley.
BOSTON, MA., September 5, 2006 -- NewVantage Partners will be hosting 3 CIO and executive thought-leadership programs this fall: October 5 Small Group CIO Breakfast at the offices of Nixon Peabody
in Boston; October 19 CIO Technology Dinner at Aujourd'hui at The Four Seasons Hotel in Boston sponsored by Netezza Corporation, with NewVantage Managing Partner Dr. Paul Barth speaking; November 18 Executive Business Strategy Small Group Breakfast
hosted by NewVantage Partner Blaise Heltai at the offices of Nixon Peabody.
BOSTON, MA., March 7, 2006 -- NewVantage Partners hosted a CIO Emerging Technology Breakfast at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston on March 7, 2006. Participants included CIO's and senior executives
representing Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, Freddie Mac, Iron Mountain, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State Street Bank, and iBasis.
BOSTON, MA., February 1, 2006 -- NewVantage Partners hosted its most recent CIO Executive Roundtable at the Boston offices of Nixon Peabody on February 1, 2006. Roundtable participants included Liberty Mutual CIO Paul Bergamo,
State Street CTO Jerry Cristoforo, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Health and Human Services CIO Tom Curran, former EMC CIO Dave Ellard, Fidelity Investments CIO Steve Elterich, Investors Bank and Trust
CIO KK Krishnakumar, and former Commonwealth of Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn.
BOSTON, MA., November 11, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners moderated the November 10 Ernst & Young Milestones CIO Panel held at the Sheraton Hotel in Needham, MA. The program was
moderated by NewVantage managing partner Randy Bean. Panel participants included State Street Bank CIO Joe Antonellis, Ernst & Young CIO Malcolm Collingwood, Fidelity Investments
CIO Don Haile, Commonwealth of Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn, and Citizens Bank CIO Bill Wray.
For more information on the program, see: November 10, Ernst & Young CIO Keynote
BOSTON, MA., November 3, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners moderated the November 2 Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) CIO panel held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. The program was
moderated by NewVantage managing partner Paul Barth, PhD. Panel participants included Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education CIO Maureen Chew, Unicco Services Company
CIO Jeff Peterson, and Eastern Bank CTO Doug Emond.
For more information on the porgram, see: November 2, ACG CIO Panel, Sheraton Boston
BOSTON, MA., October 5, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners moderated the October 4 Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) "Technology in Health Care Series" Life Science
Executive Panel discussion entitled "Innovation Driving the HealthCare Transformation". The program was moderated by NewVantage managing partner Paul Barth, PhD, with panel participants
John Glaser, CIO, Partners HealthCare, Kevin Counihan, former senior vice president of sales and marketing for Tufts Healthcare, and Michael Weintraub, CEO of Pharmetrics.
For more information, see: October 4, MITX Life Science Panel, Nixon Peabody,Boston
BOSTON, MA., July 11, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners has announced its Fall 2005 Executive/CIO program schedule, as follows: October 4, Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange
(MITX) Life Science Executive Panel, Nixon Peabody, 100 Summer Street, Boston; October 20, Executive Breakfast at Nixon Peabody; November 2, Association for Corporate Growth (ACS) CIO
Panel, Sheraton Boston Hotel; November 10, Ernst & Young CIO Keynote Panel, Sheraton Needham; December 8, Executive Breakfast at Nixon Peabody.
BOSTON, MA., May 20, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners hosted it's most recent CIO Private Dinner at Great Bay at the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston on May 19, 2005.
Current and former CIO's and senior business executives from across industries shared their perspectives on enterprise information strategies. Guests included Liberty Mutual
CTO Paul Bergamo, Monster Worldwide SVP Puneet Bhasin, former State Street CIO John Fiore, Partners HealthCare CTO Steve Flammini, former Merck SVP and Member of the Executive
Committee Gerry Gallivan, former Fleet/Bank of America EVP/Internet Banking Blaise Heltai, Bank of America SVP/Direct Brokerage Jim Goodwin, former 3COM founder/chairman and
current Polaris Ventures Partner Bob Metcalfe, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn.
BOSTON, MA., May 11, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners managing partner Paul Barth was a featured panelist at the May 10 Massachusetts Information and Technology Exchange (MITX)
session "Technology in Financial Services: Showing a Return to Senior Management". Co-panelists included Jane Conway, Senior Vice President with State Street Bank, and
Ian Jeong, former Executive Vice President with Pioneer Investments. The program was hosted by Susan Landry, Vice President and Research Director, Gartner Financial Services.
BOSTON, MA., March 31, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners co-hosted it's 2nd Life Sciences CIO Breakfast in Princeton, New Jersey on Wednesday March 30, 2005.
The program was co-hosted with Techpar Group. Participants included current and former CIO's from Merck, Sanofi-Aventis, Johnson and Johnson,
Bristol-Myers Squibb and other leading pharmaceutical firms.
The themes and findings have been summarized: NVP Life Sciences March Executive Summary
BOSTON, MA., March 11, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners hosted an executive dinner and featured session at the Semantic Technology Conference
held at The Stanford Court, Nob Hill March 7-10 in San Francisco. Fran Clark, director of the SOA Practice for NewVantage Partners, presented on
"Building Better Enterprise Message Models with Semantics". NewVantage hosted an executive dinner on the evening of Tuesday March 8 at Kokkari's Restaurant.
Guests included senior technology executives from Google, Raytheon, Wells Fargo Bank, UPS, Partners HealthCare, Wellpoint/Blue Cross, Semantic Arts, and John Wiley and Sons.
The themes and findings have been summarized: NVP Semantics 2005 Executive Summary
BOSTON, MA., February 17, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners hosted it's most recent CIO Private Dinner at Aujourd'hui at The Four Seasons Hotel in Boston on February 17, 2005.
Current and former CIO's from across industries shared their perspectives on key issues, current practices, and emerging technology approaches. Guests included Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CIO Carl Ascenzo, former EMC Corporation and Boston Scientific CIO Dave Ellard, Eastern Bank CIO Doug Emond, former State Street CIO
John Fiore, Millenium Pharmaceuticals CTO Mark Hernon, Investors Bank and Trust CTO Narayanan Krishnakumar, Infinity Pharmaceuticals CIO Andy Palmer, Commonwealth of
Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn, former CitiGroup Corporate CIO Mel Taub, and MIT Center for Information Research (CISR) Director and Sloan Senior Research Scientist
Peter Weill.
BOSTON, MA., January 28, 2005 -- NewVantage Partners hosted it's first Life Sciences CIO Breakfast in Boston on Tuesday January 25, 2005.
Panelists includes senior executives representing Sinofi-Aventis, Merck, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, Biogen, Partners Health Care,
and Mediphase Ventures. The discussion focused on issues in data integration and business intelligence in the life sciences.
The themes and findings have been summarized: NVP Life Sciences January Executive Summary
BOSTON, MA., December 6, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners managing partner Paul Barth moderated the Mass High Tech "Pulse of Technology"" breakfast panel held
on December 3 at the Newton Marriott (MA). Panelists included Eastern Bank CIO Douglas Emond, NetCracker CEO Andrew Feinberg, former Commonwealth of
Massachusetts CIO David Lewis, and Netezza co-founder and CEO Jit Saxena.
BOSTON, MA., November 22, 2004 -- Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) has announced the appointment of Joseph Smialowski as executive vice president of operations and
technology. Smialowski was former CIO for Fleet Financial Corporation and Sears Roebuck, and was on the CIO Advisory Board of NewVantage Partners. He
will focus exclusively on his new role with Freddie Mac effective December 1.
BOSTON, MA., November 19, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners presented a session on CRM Best Practices at the annual Bank Administration Institute (BAI) Retail
Delivery Conference and Expo in Las Vegas November 16. Dr. Barth presented a summary of best practices derived from conversations and interviews with
several dozen Fortune 1000 financial services CIO's and executives.
BOSTON, MA., November 12, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners hosted the CIO Keynote Panel at the Ernst & Young Milestones Conference in Boston on November 11, 2004
The CIO Keynote session was moderated by Dr. Paul Barth of NewVantage Partners. CIO Keynote panel participants included Fidelity Investments Systems Company
President and CIO Don Haile, Liberty Mutual Insurance CTO Paul Bergamo, Guardian Life Insurance CIO Dennis Callahan, Thomson Financial CTO Jeff Scott, Ernst
& Young Global CIO Malcolm Collingwood, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn.
BOSTON, MA., October 8, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners hosted the CIO Keynote Panel at the Ernst & Young Milestones Conference in San Mateo on October 7, 2004
The CIO Keynote session was moderated by Dr. Paul Barth of NewVantage Partners. CIO Keynote panel participants included National Semiconductor CIO Ulrich Seif,
Google CIO Doug Merrill, JP Morgan Lab Morgan CIO Ameet Patel, and WebEx CIO Shawn Farshchi.
BOSTON, MA., September 24, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners held it's Boston CIO Advisory Dinner at Capital Grille on Monday September 20, 2004. A small group of
Fortune 1000 CIO's gathered to share their perspectives in a casual small-group setting. Guests included retired CitiGroup Corporate CTO Mel Taub, outgoing
Bank of America/Fleet CIO Joe Smialowski, Bank of America Wealth and Investment Management CIO Dean Athanasia, Citizens Bank CIO Bill Wray, SunLife Financial
CIO John Wright, former State Street Bank CIO John Fiore, and Iron Mountain CIO Kevin Roden.
BOSTON, MA., August 24, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners Managing Partner Randy Bean's article on emerging technology adoption entitled "Emerging Technologies
Still Emerging" appears in the August 23 edition of CIO Update. The full article can be referenced at:
Emerging Technology Trends
BOSTON, MA., August 16, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners has announced establishment of a CIO Advisor role. The CIO Advisor will work with NewVantage to host
a series of invitation-only CIO Breakfast and Dinner events to bring together Fortune 1000 CIO's in peer-group interaction. Mel Taub was corporate Technology
Officer (CTO) for CitiGroup, and was previously CIO for Salomon Smith Barney. Joe Smialowski was CIO and executive vice president of Fleet Boston Financial
(Bank of America), and a member of the integration team following the Bank of America acquisition. He was formerly CIO and senior vice president for Sears
Roebuck, and a partner with Price Waterhouse.
BOSTON, MA., July 23, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners is the subject of a CIO Update article entitled "Risky Business: Working with start-ups can be risky business.
Two new firms, Insight Ventures and New Vantage Partners, have set out to remove the 'risky' and make it just business." The full article can be referenced at:
CIO Update Article
BOSTON, MA., June 30, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners is pleased to acknowledge that Unicco Services Corporation of Newton, MA has received the Computerworld Award
for Best in Class in Mobile and Wireless applications. This award recognizes the implementation of a mobile solution developed by ArcStream Solutions of Watertown,
MA, a developer of wireless applications, recommended by NewVantage Partners to help Unicco meet their requirements. A full description of the application can be
found in the ComputerWorld supplement at:
ComputerWorld Award:Unicco
BOSTON, MA., June 24, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners held it's most recent CIO breakfast on Wednesday June 23 at the offices of Silicon Valley Bank, program co-sponsor.
Speakers included former CitiGroup CTO Mel Taub, Commonwealth of Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn, Fidelity Marketing SVP Philippe Mauldin, Unicco Services CIO Jeff
Peterson, UPromise CIO James Ray, Matrix Partners General Partner David Skok, Endeca Technologies CEO Jim Baum, Netezza Founder Foster Hinshaw, Microstrategy CEO Sanju Bansal,
and former Open Market Chairman Shikhar Ghosh.
BOSTON, MA., May 14, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners held the first New York CIO breakfast on Thursday May 13 at The Stanhope Hotel in New York. The program was
co-sponsored by MMC Capital (Marsh McLennan) and Silicon Valley Bank. Speakers included former CitiGroup CTO Mel Taub, Merrill Lynch technology analyst Steve
Milunovich, Guardian Life Insurance CIO Dennis Callahan, Nextel CIO Dick LeFave, American Express CISO Jim Routh, and former State Street Bank CIO John Fiore.
BOSTON, MA., January 16, 2004 -- NewVantage Partners announced today that 57 senior business and technology executives participated in the
Emerging Technology Approaches and Best Practices day held on January 15, 2004 at Silicon Valley Bank. The event, which was co-sponsored
by NewVantage Partners and Silicon Valley Bank, attracted executives from leading Fortune 1000 firms including Fidelity Investments,
Bank of America, Fleet Bank, Putnam Investments, Liberty Mutual Insurance, State Street Bank, Old Mutual Asset Management, and Thomson
Financial among others.
