Advisory Board
Alvin Mills
Advisory Board Member
Alvin, VP Information Technology & Security with Texas Bankers Association, has been an Information Security Professional for over 26 years. He’s experienced in security infrastructure deployment and management, including project/people management.
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Alvin is experienced leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirements definition, design, architecture, testing, and support. He’s implemented innovative security programs that drive awareness, decrease exposure, and strengthen organizations.
He is a certified information system security professional (CISSP) and received his MSBA at Texas Tech University. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland University College where he teaches several cybersecurity courses.
Madhu Maganti
Advisory Board Member
Madhu Maganti, CPA, CISA is a partner at ABIP, P.C. and has over 18 years’ experience in Cybersecurity and other IT advisory services including IT strategy and planning, business process improvement and IT compliance assessments, and more. Madhu leads the firm’s Cybersecurity & Technology Services group. Madhu’s experience is with mid to large size firms across a variety of industries including technology, healthcare, energy and finance.
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Madhu graduated from Bangalore University with a Bachelor of Commerce and from Baruch College (Zicklin School of Business, New York) with a Masters in Accountancy. He is a member of the Information Systems and Audit Control Association (ISACA), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Angelique Grado
Advisory Board Member
Angelique, VP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at TechnipFMC, has over 20 years of information security experience, with 12 years of that time focused on information protection in the U.S. armed forces.
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She was the volunteer founder of the Houston-based InfraGard Oil & Gas SIG (CSC) with the FBI and has served on the board of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the ISSA. She and her husband moved to Houston in the early 2000’s to be close to family
Robin Laskowski
Advisory Board Member
Robin Laskowski is a native Houstonian and a graduate of University of Houston with 20 years payments’ industry experience. Currently she serves as the VP, Director IT, Product-Merchant Acquiring. Prior Woodforest, she worked as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Merchants’ Choice Payment Solutions, which was acquired by Paysafe in August of 2017. After the Paysafe acquisition, Robin moved to a more product centric role where she managed delivery for an array of payments products.
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She is an active participant in the Society of Information Management (SIM) and leads the SIM advisory board for the University of Houston Computer Information Systems program. She also participates in WNET (Women’s Network in Electronic Transactions).
Gene Janiszewski
Advisory Board Member
Gene Janiszewski founded the Paradigm group – Professional and Executive Technology Search Firm in November of 2003 after a 27-year track record in information Systems. Paradigm group’s focus is to provide the highest quality technology resources to meet our clients’ most critical business/technology needs.
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Gene is a Society of Information Management (SIM) Houston Board Member and VP of Membership. He is Co-VP of Membership for the SIM National Management Council and past President of SIM Houston Chapter. Gene serves on the Advisory Committee of the University of Houston, Houston Baptist University and Fort Bend, and a Board Member of Genesys Works Group. Previously he was President of the AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals) Houston Chapter and Co-Chair of the Houston Technology Center’s Tech Champs Group. He is an active member of the Executive Association of Houston.
George Crawford
Advisory Board Member
Winner of the 2020 Houston CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Award, George Crawford is responsible for directing all technology, innovation & transformation, strategy, merger/acquisition integration, and cyber security for Catapult Energy Services portfolio companies. He joined Catapult in 2013 as Partner and CIO/CISO helping create the shared services platform company that was the foundation for the five OFS companies he helped start. Mr. Crawford was interim President and COO for Roywell LLC from 2018 – 2020, a Catapult acquisition. He has been consulting with and helping Private Equity groups create shared services foundation companies for over 20 years.
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Jesse Carrillo
Advisory Board Member
Jesse Carrillo is responsible for directing all corporate technology, strategy and standards for Hines worldwide and has been at Hines since 1994. He took over the responsibility for Hines IT as CTO in 2007 and promoted to CIO in 2009. Mr. Carrillo completed undergraduate studies at Trinity University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, then received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree
from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Cyber Consortium (RECC), Building Engines Client Advisory Board, WiredScore Smart Building Council, Executive Vice-President of the Houston Chapter of Society of Information Management (SIM), Prospanica – Association of Hispanic Professionals, and serves on the Realcomm International Advisory Council. Along with contributing to several technology articles, he was a featured writer for the book, Building a Green IT
Team, part of the Inside the Minds series from Aspatore Publishers.
He is also a strong supporter of promoting Youth In IT through his involvement with Genesys Works as a client and Board Member; serves on the Houston Baptist University (HBU) College of Science Engineering Advisory Board; and previously served as a VP on the Board of Trustees for The Shlenker School and mentor with Citizens Schools.
Jesse has been recognized for his achievements by being named a Premier 100 recipient in 2016 by Computerworld Magazine, the Julie Devine Digital Impact Award presented at the 2017 Realcomm
Conference, the Realcomm Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018, recognized as one of the Top 50 CIOs by the National Diversity Council in 2020, Houston CIO of the Year ORBIE Award – Enterprise Category in 2021, nd HMG Global Institute Leadership Award in 2021.
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Over the year’s Shell Oil Company formally rewarded Gerard for numerous accomplishments including recently the VP CIO Award for Deliver Together (2020), VP CIO Award for Business Value (2019), Shell Downstream VP CIO Award (2018), Vice President’s Award: Successful Delivery of Application Portfolio Management for Manufacturing & HSSE (2015), and was nominated for VP CIO Award for Innovation, Global Solutions – CRI Criterion Enhanced Experimentation Data Knowledge Extraction. His primary industry certifications include: Microsoft Azure Certified Solution Architect, Amazon AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate Level, ISC2 CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), ISACA CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) 8 and 9 Certified, and IBM Architectural Thinking.