Mark Settle has held the CIO role seven times across industries ranging from financial services to technology, a track record that gives him a rare perspective on what separates good IT leadership from great leadership.

A three-time CIO 100 Award winner and two-time author, his most recent book, Truth from the Valley: A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade, distills the hard-won lessons of a career spent at the intersection of technology and business strategy. Seven members of his prior management teams are currently serving as CIOs at publicly traded companies.

As a Parliament Advisor, Mark leads our next cohort, beginning in November, bringing candor, pattern recognition, and a deep commitment to the development of the next generation of technology leaders.

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Steve is a veteran Global CIO with 40 years of experience driving large-scale IT transformations across the manufacturing, energy, and healthcare sectors. Throughout his career, Steve has specialized in moving global organizations beyond “break-fix” operations and into high-performance, business-aligned teams capable of technology adoption that makes a difference.

Today, Steve leverages his four decades of leadership to advise executive teams on utilizing IT for competitive differentiation and operational excellence. As a seasoned facilitator and industry mentor, he is dedicated to helping the next generation of leaders turn complex technology challenges into measurable business results.

As a Parliament Advisor, Steve leads one of our peer cohorts, offering the grounded perspective of a leader who has done the work and the generosity of someone genuinely invested in the success of others.

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Walter Yosafat has led technology and business organizations across the full spectrum of enterprise, from large global corporations to early-stage firms, serving in permanent, interim, and fractional leadership capacities across his career as CIO, CTO, and CEO.

Inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame in 2019, Wally brings deep expertise in cybersecurity, strategic planning, risk management, and business process transformation. He is known for his ability to connect technology leadership to business outcomes, and for developing the leaders around him.

As a Parliament Advisor, Wally leads one of our peer cohorts, contributing the perspective of someone who has navigated complexity at every level of an organization and remains deeply committed to elevating the practice of technology leadership.

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Ken Ferguson has spent his career at the intersection of business, technology, leadership, and human capital: recruiting IT leaders for his clients, and helping those leaders build careers that endure.

After starting his career as a Systems Engineer at IBM Canada, Ken moved into recruiting. He has since worked with thousands of IT professionals, giving him a perspective few in his field can claim: he understands both what organizations need from their technology leaders and what those leaders need to grow, thrive, and transition as the market for their talent changes. As founder of Berkshire Executive Search, he leads retained searches for Chief, Vice President, and Director-level technology roles in large and mid-market companies. His search model is to work full-time on just one search at a time, an approach that focuses on premier results rather than high volume.

That one-to-one discipline carries into his work as a personal Career Concierge for a select group of senior technology executives navigating key career inflection points.

As Branding and Career Coach, Ken works individually with participants on the branding and positioning tactics that turn self-awareness into market presence, bringing the outside-in view of someone who has watched more technology leaders navigate career-defining moments than almost anyone in the field.

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