Innovate '08 - Anaheim Marriott - Anaheim, California - November 9 - 12, 2008

Executive Summit


Welcome Executives!

IRES is pleased to offer our executive clients an opportunity to meet with one another and spend the afternoon learning about industry topics as well as business strategies. Spend time with your peers discovering what they are experiencing, learning from and which business challenges they are solving.

 

12:00 - 1:00 Executive Summit Lunch

1:00- 5:15 Executive Summit

 

Investment Decision Making

Investment decision making and performance measurement are key to successful real estate investing in today’s economy. Meet other clients who are implementing tools to standardize their approach to investment management to assure they maximize their return on investments. We will also share how clients use IRES’ IMPACT offering to monitor and model investment performance and decision making and the contribution it’s made on their organization.

 

Intuit’s Chief Information Officer Insights

Ginny Lee will share CIO best practices as it relates to applications, security and compliance issues. Intuit is nearing completion of the construction of a new world class datacenter that will serve as the new home for IRES' NetSource offering. Ginny will share how this move will better serve the needs of IRES’ NetSource clients.

Panelist
Ginny Lee – Intuit’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Ginny Lee is Intuit’s senior vice president and chief information officer. Appointed to the position in February 2008, she is responsible for further developing Intuit’s technology and business infrastructure to support the company’s growth strategy and provide customers with great experiences.

Working at Intuit since November 1996, Lee has held a variety of general manager and business operations leadership roles. Before being named CIO, she was vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Payroll business unit, where she was responsible for the company’s line of payroll products and services. Previously, she was vice president of Intuit’s order-to-cash organization and customer service, and vice president of corporate business operations and enterprise systems, overseeing Intuit’s companywide infrastructure. Lee has also served as business line leader for QuickBooks Internet Gateway Services and director of operations and product management for the Financial Supplies Group.

Before joining Intuit, she spent several years as a management consultant at CSC Index, focusing on strategic implementation and business process re-engineering. Lee was also a marketing manager at Pepsi-Cola International.

Lee holds bachelor’s degrees in both business economics and organizational behavior and management from Brown University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University.

Best Uses of Technology in Real Estate

In a market where there is pressure to contain rent increases and yet increase profits, companies are looking to technology and related process improvements to contribute to bottom line improvement. Our panelists will discuss how and why their companies have looked to technology to make these crucial changes in their organizations.

 

Aligning IRES with Intuit’s Global Strategy

Alex Linter will discuss Intuit’s global strategy that solves for unmet or under-served needs with solutions that span multiple countries. Mr. Linter will also discuss the opportunities Intuit sees globally and Intuit’s offer centric approach. He will also share the role IRES plays in that strategy and how Intuit’s product development strategy assures global ready offerings that can be efficiently localized.

Panelist
Alex Linter – Intuit’s Global Business Division President

Alex Lintner is Intuit’s senior vice president for corporate strategy, corporate development and government affairs. He was subsequently appointed president of the company’s global business division when it was created in October 2007.


Since his arrival at Intuit in August 2005, Lintner has been a leader in strengthening the corporation’s strategy and shaping its structure. He was one of the principal architects in shaping the business strategies of the company’s three fastest-growing businesses: consumer tax, payroll and payments businesses. In addition, Lintner led the acquisitions of Digital Insight, Electronic Clearinghouse Inc. and Homestead Technologies, which expanded Intuit’s portfolio and future growth potential.

Before joining Intuit, Lintner was vice president of the Boston Consulting Group’s San Francisco office, where he worked with Intuit on several business initiatives. Previously, he worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as head of its London office. Before his career in consulting, Lintner worked for a major European computer manufacturer.

Lintner holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Tulsa and a master’s in business administration from Boston College. He also received an executive certificate from the Harvard Business School.

 

ID: M25
Track: Executive Summit
Audience: C-level Executives
Prerequisite: C-level experience or position
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