Strategies and solutions, not sales
When every vendor is trying to sell you their roadmap, where do you go to stop the noise and get to the facts? Welcome to Street Light where powerful discussions help demystify the sales jargon that can block your path forward.
We delve right into the hottest topics: AI, Gen AI, UX, data, cybersecurity, cloud and more. We get real, behind-the-sales understanding of how each technology can impact your future roadmap. We don’t just talk, we get down to the details of which investments will help strengthen your business, and which can lead to risk you weren’t expecting.
Contribute to the conversation at the next Street Light. Your participation can help your peer executives make the better decisions for their roadmaps.
Mr. Locandro serves as EVP & Global Chief Information Officer. In this role, he is responsible for leading Rimini Street’s global, mission-critical IT business applications and operations team and establishing strategic plans for the company’s current and future capabilities of IT.
Mr. Locandro is a seasoned business technology and transformation leader with over 25 years in senior IT executive roles including CTO, CIO, CDO and Chief Transformation Officer, a career spanning a range of complex industries from airlines, utilities, and manufacturing to building and construction. His extensive background includes working for many global organizations along with providing his expertise to advisory boards for governments, universities, and statutory authorities.
With deep experience leading culturally diverse international environments such as mainland China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, Mr. Locandro champions a culture of collaboration across internal and external stakeholders. Focused on delivering tangible and measurable results, he enjoys identifying business opportunities using a combination of contemporary and emerging technologies, and bringing together people, tools and a shared purpose in realizing the company vision.
Previously, Mr. Locandro served as CIO at Fletcher Building (Australia and New Zealand), Chief Digital & Business Transformation Officer at Austral Energy Market Operator, Vice President of Business Technology Services at Emirates Airlines, CIO of Cathay Pacific Airways and CIO of China Light & Power.
Mr. Locandro holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Commerce from University of Melbourne and post-graduate degrees in Marketing from Monash University, and a Strategic Application of Information Technology degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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