Meet the CTOs
Ira A. "Gus" Hunt
Chief Technology Officer
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Sairam Rangachari
Chief Innovation Officer
optionsXpress
Stuart Building 111
Friday, April 8th, 2011
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Abstract: Come meet two distinguished members of the CS Dept Advisory Board, Ira A. "Gus" Hunt and Sairam Rangachari, on Friday April 8 from 1:30-2:30pm in 111 Stuart Building. This is a round table discussion, refreshments will be served.
Bio: Ira A. "Gus" Hunt currently serves as chief technology officer for the chief information officer of the CIA. Before coming to the agency, he spent seven years in the private sector as an aerospace engineer designing advanced manned-space flight systems and satellite orbital-transfer vehicles. Hunt holds an M.E. in Civil/Structural Engineering from Vanderbilt University. He is married and has two grown children.
Sairam Rangachari (M.S. IIT CS '02) is chief innovation officer for optionsXpress, Inc. with responsibility for product strategy and innovation. Under Rangachari's leadership, the company launched several products that solidified the world-class optionsXpress trading platform, which won several awards from Barron's, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, SmartMoney, and other leading industry publications. Part of the original team that built the optionsXpress platform, he played a key role through its IPO in acquiring and executing the integration of XpressTrade, a futures brokerage. He lives in Chicago with his wife and their 2-year-old son.
Speaker
Ira A. "Gus" Hunt
Sairam Rangachari