Specialties

• Stu Sugarman is a senior technology executive with deep industry knowledge in Financial Services and Health Care. He has held executive IT positions at Salomon Brothers
• Credit Suisse First Boston
• Deutsche Bank
• Credit Suisse
• NYU and Mount Sinai Medical Centers. Stu has led many large and complex projects in the areas of business and IT strategy and transformation
• offshoring implementation for captive and managed services
• business intelligence strategy
• and IT optimization and cost reduction. Stu brings a wealth of diverse experience garnered from executive positions he has held at world-class firms. He is extremely effective in the following areas: • Process Re-engineering • Organizational Design and Transformation • Infrastructure and Application Architectures. Including max availability and recovery • Mergers and De-mergers • IT Cost Efficiency; cost reduction • Integrated IT and Strategic Business Planning • Large Global implementations • Cloud capabilities
• use cases and benefits – SaaS
• IaaS and PaaS • Capital Markets applications and architectures • Off-Shoring
• Outsourcing Most recently
• he was the lead Business Development advisor for Oracle’s FSI cloud go-to-market strategy
• supporting over 50 sales professionals
• driving over $1.5B in revenue. In his 15 years at Oracle
• he held other roles
• most notably the Senior Director for 14 Financial Services and Insurance professionals known as Industry Advisors. Stu built and mentored this highly respected team where they drove account strategies; improved top-down trust and customer satisfaction; the envisioning and adoption of innovative business capabilities; and achievement of overall financial performance. Stu began his career at Brooklyn Union Gas Company
• where he became its first CIO. Stu is passionate about understanding customer needs and providing IT solutions to meet those needs. He values open collaboration encouraging problem solving with creative design thinking. Summary of Experience (highlights): • Created and implemented a portfolio of projects that reduced operating costs from $1.3 billion down to $1 billion
• while at the same time providing additional capability for growth. • Offshored to India and Poland 1000 infrastructure positions in a captive model. • Led a total architectural restructuring of the infrastructure & core application footprint at Credit Suisse
• resulting in significant cost reductions
• increased reliability & better business information. • Developed long range strategic information management plans to support the business imperatives of his clients. This was particularly true of the 5-way merger of the hospital systems where he was CIO
• and of Deutsche Bank’s growth & acquisition strategy
• where he was also CIO. • Implemented a formalized PMO to manage over 500 projects
• ensuring that the organization was doing the right work
• the right way
• & achieving the benefits. • Merged IT organizations
• infrastructures
• and application portfolios at many of his firms due to mergers and acquisitions. • Implemented large-scale projects
• e.g. ERP systems
• Trading Floor infrastructure
• Trading & Sales applications
• Data Center build outs to consolidate global processing
• large-scale infrastructures and Banking applications in over 80 countries. Areas of greatest interest: Data Strategy and Governance
• Repeatable Platform Solutions
• Customer Value Realization
• Next Gen Digital and AI Transformation. Stu obtained his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the City University of New York
• and his MBA in Information Science from PACE University.