FAIRFIELD, Conn., Aug. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Register Now! Seats are Limited! C-level executives from the Gateway to the West who want to find out how technology helps them reimagine their enterprise and reshape their businesses are encouraged to attend HMG Strategy’s 11th Annual St. Louis C-Level Technology Leadership Summit on August 28.
“It’s important for Midwestern top-tier CIOs and business technology executives to share information that will help their companies and the industry as a whole,” said Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO of HMG Strategy. “HMG Strategy is happy to provide a platform for these high-caliber leaders to pass on what they’ve learned.”
Key topics to be explored at the 11th Annual St. Louis C-Level Technology Leadership Summit will include:
- Securing the Future Against Geopolitical Cyber Risks
- Using AI and Cutting-Edge Technologies and Partnerships to Boost Business Performance
- Operationalizing Agentic AI
- Reskilling and Upskilling the Tech Workforce for the GenAI-enabled Enterprise
- From Vulnerable to Resilient: The Offensive Cybersecurity Advantage
- Navigating the Innovation and Invention Supercycle
Most notably, Lisa Nichols, CEO, Technology Partners will lead a panel on the interesting parallels between music and technology leadership, including a performance from percussive ensemble StikYard.
Preliminary speakers at the 11th Annual St. Louis C-Level Technology Leadership Summit are slated to include:
Marc Ashworth, CISO, First Bank
Christy Barker, Vice President & CIO, Olin Corp.
Alan Berry, CISO, Centene Corp.
Katie Canty, Senior Vice President, IT, Panera Bread
Jim Cavellier, Executive Vice President & CIO, Cass Information Systems
Roftiel Constantine, CISO, Barry-Wehmiller
Rahul Deshpande, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Research and Development, Mastercard
Jyotsna Gupta, Vice President & CIO, Bi-State Development Agency
Gary Harbison, CISO, Johnson & Johnson
Mark Haubein, Senior Vice President IT, Rawlings Sporting Goods
Peter Hogan, Senior Vice President of IT, Compana Pet Brands
Jennifer Hopper, CIO, Save A Lot
Jason Hunt, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Zachary Lewis, CIO & CISO, University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy, St. Louis
Amanda McClerren, CIO, Head of Digital Transformation & IT, Bayer
Jessie Minton, Vice Chancellor for Technology and CIO, Washington University in St. Louis
Craig Moellenhoff, CIO, Crown Packaging
Sean Mullins, CISO, Cass Information Systems
Scott Richert, CIO, Mercy
Jericho Simmons, Vice President & CISO, Sound Physicians
Michael Smith, CIO, Innovaprep
Ellen Sundra, Vice President, Customers, Horizon3.ai
Mark Sundt, CTO, Stax Payments
Suda Suvarna, Global Chief Solutions Officer and US Chief Solutions Delivery Officer, Deloitte
Bill Tingle, CEO, Tingle Leadership
Gary VonderHaar, Executive Vice President, Mastercard
Andrew Wilder, Chief Security Officer, Vector
Erin Williams, Vice President & CIO, Hussmann Corp.
Mike Williams, CEO, Founder, Software Design Partners
(Speaker list subject to change.)
In addition, HMG Strategy will present several Atlanta-area technology executives with its HMG Strategy’s 2025-2026 Global Leadership Institute Awards. The award recognizes the industry’s premier business technology executives who are making a difference in their organizations and their respective vertical markets.
The event will be held at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac, 1335 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63105.
Valued Partners so far for the 11th Annual St. Louis C-Level Technology Leadership Summit include:
Presenting Partners: IBM
Platinum Partners: HCLTech, Horizon3.ai
Community Underwriters: YASH Technologies
Gold Partners: Check Point Software Technologies, T-Mobile for Business, ValueOps
Innovation Accelerator Partners: GTM Capital
Alliance Partners: Cyberstarts, Greylock Partners, GTM Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Sequoia
Registration for the 11th Annual St. Louis C-Level Technology Leadership Summit is still open.
In addition to this Technology Leadership Summit, HMG Strategy has opened registration for 15 other regional Summits in major cities across the United States and Canada for 2025.
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About HMG Strategy
HMG Strategy is the world’s leading digital platform for technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. The HMG Strategy global network consists of more than 500,000 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, senior business technology executives, search industry executives, venture capitalists, industry experts and world-class thought leaders.
The company’s global media model generates more than one million impressions per week, providing vast opportunities for business technology leaders and sponsor partners to promote themselves and their brands.
HMG Strategy was founded in 2008 by Hunter Muller, a leadership expert who has worked side-by-side with Fortune 2000 executives with strategic planning and career ascent for the past 30+ years.
The company’s regional CIO and CISO Executive Leadership Series, publications, and Digital Resource Center deliver unique, peer-driven guidance from CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, CDOs and other technology executives on leadership, innovation, transformation and career ascent.
HMG Strategy offers a range of peer-led advisory services such as its Global CIO & CISO Executive Leadership Alliance (CELA) service, which bring together the world’s top CIOs, CISOs and technology executives to brainstorm on the top opportunities and challenges facing them in their roles.
In addition, its Global Advisory Services are a unique set of peer-driven research services designed to keep business technology executives up to speed on the latest leadership, business, technology and global macro-economic trends that affect businesses and industries.
The company’s business model is based on its 7 Pillars of Trust.
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Contact: Peggy Pedwano, Chief Operations Officer, HMG Strategy: 203-221-2702 or at [email protected]
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