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About the Interview
“Moving to the Cloud” can seem like an ambiguous, one-time, heavy-lift project, often leading to misunderstanding and analysis paralysis within credit unions. For your CU to stay competitive, you want to deliver a seamless digital experience that's more than flashy applications. It needs to be built on flexible, secure infrastructure that allows innovation.
Join us for this panel discussion and learn practical, proven processes to establish and evolve secure, cloud-first strategies. Hear best practices in communication, talent, and technology, and walk away with a blueprint for your secure credit union transformation.
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Presented By
Mark Schwartz
Enterprise Strategist and Evangelist | Amazon Web Services
Mark Schwartz joined AWS as an Enterprise Strategist and Evangelist in July 2017. In this role, Mark works with enterprise technology executives to share experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their resources to their customers. Mark has extensive experience as an IT leader in the government, private sector, and the nonprofit world, and with organizations ranging from startup to large. Prior to joining AWS, he was CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (in the Department of Homeland Security), where he led a large digital transformation effort, moving the agency to the cloud, introducing and refining DevOps and Agile techniques, and adopting user-centric design approaches.
Chad Ritchie
CIO | Ventura County Credit Union
Chad first became a member of the credit union community in 1995 while serving as an Arabic Linguist in the United States Air Force at the National Security Agency. Since that time, he has created digital strategies for some of the largest brands in the world, including: LG, Johns Hopkins, Dell, McKesson, Comcast, Rush University Medical Center and many more. Today, he is the CIO of Ventura County Credit Union with a track record of over 25 years of creating business strategies that drive growth and positive customer experiences and one of the first people to successfully pioneer digital transformation in the credit union industry.
Chris Sachse
CEO | Think|Stack
Chris found his entrepreneurial spirit at a young age. He has been passionately leading teams since the lemonade and lawn cutting empire of Springdale. As an athlete, Chris continued to develop his leadership style and passionately rebellious flare. He loves to improvise, create and inspire others. His passion for leadership and creativity helped shape his vision for the future, blending human centered design with technology. He used that vision and process to build and found Think|Stack, an innovative cloud and cybersecurity company 8 years ago.
Demonstrating the path, while relentlessly moving forward, Chris is passionate about inspiring others with a vision of the future. His ideas and enthusiasm create excitement and energy in others.