Enterprise Portfolio Management Council

Michael Gosnear - MGM Mirage

Mike has over twenty-five years of information technology and operations experience, which includes government defense contracting, healthcare, and gaming industries. Over the past six years he has focused on portfolio management opportunities in healthcare and gaming, including developing governance, tools, and process methodologies across IT.

Stephen Jenner - UK Government

Steve has extensive experience of investment and benefits management in the public sector. The approach he developed to manage the criminal justice system IT portfolio was recognized internationally, in reports to the OECD and European Commission, and in a case study by Gartner. Steve is a professionally qualified management accountant with an MBA, and Masters of Studies from Cambridge University. He is also the author of Realising Benefits from Government ICT Investments: A Fool’s Errand?

Michael Mee - Franklin Templeton Investments

Mike joined Franklin Templeton in 2004 as director of Franklin Templeton Technology Administration. In February 2005 he was promoted to vice president of Operations and Technology Administration. Mike facilitates the internal executive committee of the Operations and Technology Council (TOC). The role of the TOC is to approve, prioritize, and track technology projects within Franklin. Additionally, Mike is responsible for the continuing evaluation and improvement of the project portfolio management processes at Franklin Templeton.

Michael M. Menke - Decision Strategies Inc..

Mike is a fellow of Knowledge Management at Decision Strategies Inc., a strategy and decision consultancy. Formerly he was chief portfolio advocate at Hewlett-Packard. He has been helping senior leaders improve their strategies, decisions, and portfolios since 1972 and helped introduce portfolio management as a best practice into the global pharmaceutical and oil and gas industries. He has taught executives about portfolio management all over the world. He has a BA in physics from Princeton, an MSc from Cambridge, and a PhD from Stanford University.

Diane D. Miller - PMP, Independent Consultant (Former IT PMO Lead for Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.)

Diane is a senior management professional with experience leading organizations through developing, implementing, and sustaining strong portfolio management practices. Her pragmatic approach to portfolio management is credited with saving millions of dollars through improved investment decisions and project delivery. Diane has earned the designation of PMP from the Project Management Institute and a BS in Management Information Systems from Syracuse University.

San Retna - Safeway

San is the vice president of IT Effectiveness and Optimization for Safeway, Inc. He has spent over twenty years in building great depth on pragmatically deploying and operating project, program, and portfolio management capabilities. Prior roles included managing principal at TransformAction and Chief Portfolio Officer at AAA of California, Utah, and Nevada. He also spent over ten years at Accenture, specializing in large-scale program management ($25M). Clients included Bell Atlantic, Elis, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Philip Morris, and Washington Mutual. His experience covers more than countries across four continents. This includes ten years in the United States, four years in the UK, and at least two years in France, Nigeria, and Switzerland. As a thought leader, he has been profiled in numerous publications including CFO magazine, CIO magazine, Computerworld, and PM Network. Case studies of successes have also been published by Gartner, Corporate Executive Board, META, and the Project Management Institute.

Mark Stabler - AAA for Utah, Nevada, and Northern California.

Mark has nearly twenty years of program and project management experience garnered in leading corporations such as AAA, NCR, and AT&T. He has core expertise in developing and implementing processes across diverse business functions; project budgeting, tracking, and resource management; and project team management. He has helped create and deploy sophisticated Enterprise Portfolio Management infrastructures, enabling companies to consistently deliver value and realize return on internal investments. He speaks regularly at industry conferences, and is a founding member of the Enterprise Portfolio Management Council and serves on its board. He has published several white papers and articles.

Michael J. Stratton - The Boeing Company.

Mike is a senior project manager at the Boeing Company in Washington State. His thirty year career at Boeing includes working on nearly all of the commercial jetliners in a variety of positions including manufacturing engineering, make/buy, communications, and training. He holds PMP #611, a BA from Washington State University, an MBA from City University, and is pursuing his PhD focusing on project management at Capella University.

Sarma Tekumallla - Grange Insurance

Sarma has over twenty years experience in technology and project management. He managed local and global teams
for start-up technology to large financial firms. He executed technology, process reengineering, and M&A projects to building an enterprise PMO from ground
up. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and has his MBA from Fisher School of Business at Ohio State University.
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Mark Wybraniec, Johnson & Johnson

Mark is a senior IT Executive with expertise in PMO and IT transformation. Mark has over eighteen years of experience as a senior IT executive in the strategic planning, analysis, and design of a variety of business information systems, across a broad range of technology platforms. He has substantial depth in successfully deploying and operating project, program, and portfolio management capabilities. Mark has a focus on how to best leverage the Program Management Organization function to drive greater value from project investments.