[BBLISA-announce] BBLISA talk Wednesday: "What does a CIO do anyway?"

[John P. Rouillard]

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Hi all:

Our May BBLISA meeting will be held this Wednesday, May 9 2012 at MIT
room E15-145 at 7PM.

Our speaker is Martin Leach. He is the chief information officer at
the Broad Institute. He came to the Broad from Merck & Co., where he
led IT for Discovery and Pre-Clinical Sciences across all the North
American research sites. Over his career he has provided support and
strategic vision for IT, informatics, and data-mining activities at a
range of life sciences organizations. Martin received his B.Sc. in
cell and molecular sciences from Anglia Polytechnic University and his
Ph.D. in pharmacology from Boston University School of Medicine.

His topic is:

     What does a CIO do anyway?

The average job life of a CIO is about 2 1/2 years, it even comes with
the pleasant acronym of '*C*areer *I*s *O*ver'. The Broad Institute
just hired their first CIO, and will try to justify his existence at
this presentation and discussion.

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If you want to be a CIO, have wondered what they do in the corner
office, or tried to figure out what in the world the CIO was thinking
this should be an interesting talk.

I look forward to seeing you there.

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				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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