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STEVE FRANK
For Corporate Roundtable Leadership
NYS Forum
2003-2005
In April 2001, Bob Kelly, then Chair of the Forum's Executive Committee, and Greg Benson discussed an idea for bringing together representatives of the IT corporate sector with Forum members to tackle some of the IT problems and issues in a collaborative way.
In October 2001 Gail Croteau of OMRDD and then Chair of The Forum's Executive Committee, convened the first meeting of the IT Corporate Roundtable. At that time the Roundtable consisted of six members.
Today, the Roundtable consists of nearly forty IT corporations and the Roundtable members play a key role as Forum committee leaders and members. The Roundtable has made notable contributions to specific priority state projects being undertaken with the Office of the CIO and NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination. In short, The Forum's IT Corporate Roundtable has come a very long way in an extremely short period of time and we are all very appreciative of the tremendous effort.
As with most success, one usually finds strong, steady leadership has been involved. That has been the case with the Roundtable. Steve Frank, now with Cúram Software, was elected as the first Chair of the IT Corporate Roundtable in June 2003 and has been instrumental in its growth and the alignment of its strengths in support of state initiatives.
As the first Chair of The Forums Corporate Roundtable and in recognition of his leadership role for over three years, The Forum is pleased to present Steve with this token of appreciation for his leadership and vision.