Michael Capellas, a 30-year IT veteran, is viewed as one of the leading technology thought leaders of our time, with a career that has spanned from semiconductors to cloud computing. He spent 18 years of his career at Schlumberger, including as the company’s first head of IT. Afterwards, he held executive positions at SAP and later at Oracle. Following Oracle, he went to Compaq where he held the positions of CIO, COO, and later Chairman and CEO. Following Compaq’s merger with HP, he was named President of HP. In 2002, he was recruited by Worldcom’s Board to restructure the company following its bankruptcy filing. The company emerged from bankruptcy and was relisted on the NASDAQ under the name MCI. Worldcom remains, to this day, the largest turnaround story in corporate history. Michael has been a member of the Cisco board since January 2006 and chairs the acquisition and investment committees. Currently, Michael is Chairman of VCE, The Virtual Computing Environment Company, and serves as a senior advisor to KKR and Deutsche Bank.
America’s Economic Opportunity in a World of Services
Technology and networks are lowering barriers to markets worldwide, and the U.S. has a growing jobs problem. As global growth shifts towards developing countries and cities, how can we most benefit? We could be on the threshold of a new era of data-driven progress, but we need a new focus on exports, especially for services, which accounts for the lion’s share of the American economy. What skills does the U.S. need to develop? Can small and medium-sized companies take advantage of expanding access and transparency in the global marketplace? What incentives and policies will enable these global opportunities? Michael D. Capellas of the Virtual Computing Environment Company, Bradford Jensen of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and Miriam Sapiro of the Office of the USTR gather at Techonomy 2012 to discuss. Zoë Baird of the Markle Foundation moderates the session.
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Techonomy 12
Techonomy focuses on how the exponential pace of technology progress makes possible a new world. A wave of accelerating change driven by technology’s advance is washing over our lives, bringing great potential for business and social progress.
