“I think having an attitude where you take more of what's happening as a learning rather than a verification of what’s right or wrong really allows you to find your path through experiences, whether it is professionally or personally.”

“I think that the story has always been the same, but I think that the way that I would have told it has changed over the years, and the reason for that is I think that just as I've gotten older, I've gotten a lot more comfortable with who I am.”

“You need to kind of apply those same lessons of the folks that have done digital transformation and DevOps and cloud really well and apply those to information accessibility across your organization.”

“I've had many mentors myself, which is why I have the pay it forward mindset.”

“Technology is opening new frontiers, layered with the fact that customers have new appetites for how they want to engage. ”

“Do you want to be the same kind of IT shop that takes monthly releases and incremental improvements to your products? Or do you want to be a high velocity, very dynamic shop that can really move the needle for however you define your customers?”

“We went through this really rapid growth phase and there was this explosion of systems, and you end up like getting crushed by the weight of all of these things and all of these silos that don't talk to each other.”

“For goodness sakes, do what you can to make people effective and make their tools better. ”

“There is a creative aspect to IT work, and I think about the architecture of a system and the landscape of data models and all of those things as part of the creative process.”

“Checking the ego at the door isn’t something we do every day. It’s just who we are.”

“When you have a binary approach to IT and someone says, “I want to do X, Y, Z,” and you say, “no” – all that does is inspire shadow IT.”

“My advice to anybody in a startup, if they're doing it together, particularly when you have founders and co-founders, is to never, ever forget. That you being together as a team is the important part.”

“The startups that find some companies like us to partner with are going to be the most successful because now they're going to get real world input, tailoring their solutions to fix real world problems right then and there, and it'll take off.”

“I always try and remind my peers that the competition is outside the company, not inside the company.”

“Julie Cullivan (Board Director at Axon, HeartFlow, and AaDya) joins us to share how she handled leading both technology & people at Forescout, why she took the leap to become a first-time CIO at FireEye, what she learned from her go-to-market roles at McAfee & Autodesk, and more.”

“A startup’s success comes down to listening to the customer. ”

“I recognize that company building is tremendously hard, and if I could play a part in that, I would be honored to do so.”