Patrick E. Moroney is President of The Barnier Group LLC, an IT consulting, services, and staffing firm. He has been a business leader and IT professional for 26 years, with 10 years' experience in large-cap CIO roles at Health Care Service Corporation (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma), The ServiceMaster Company, and the Food and Nutrition Sector of Monsanto (NutraSweet, Equal, others). He has experience leading major organizations on six continents through large-scale system implementations, business transformations, outsourcing, and merger, acquisition, and divestiture work, as well as organizational governance and effectiveness efforts.

Mr. Moroney is a board member of the Chicago Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM), a member of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), and President of Technology Leaders Association, a networking organization for senior technology executives. He is a board member for i.c.stars, a not-for-profit organization that trains future technology and business leaders from the inner city, and he serves on the Technology Advisory Committee for the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems (CTI) of DePaul University. Mr. Moroney is a member of the Executives' Club of Chicago and received the club's "CIO of the Year" award for 2004. He was named one of ComputerWorld's "Premier 100 IT Leaders in 2006". Mr. Moroney can be reached at patrick.moroney at gmail.com.