Canisius MBA

Thursday, February 19 at 4 p.m.
Buffalo, NY – Canisius College will welcome Douglas C. Pileri, vice president of IBM Global Services, to campus on Thursday, February 19 at 4 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. The lecture, titled “How to Outwit Your Global Future,” is free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the Richard J. Wehle School of Business and the Canisius Entrepreneurs Organization.

Pileri has more than 25 years of leadership experience building global brands and guiding the strategies and operations of top-tier companies including Kodak, Thomson, and IBM. At IBM, Pileri is responsible for successfully driving Delivery Excellence (DE) across the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) global operations. Delivery excellence focuses on optimizing operations to deliver contracted services in the most efficient manner.

His prior responsibilities at IBM include optimizing a billion dollars in vendored services and managing the company’s CRM operations worldwide, which include 36,000 employees who serve millions of IBM’s client customers.

Pileri serves on the boards of directors of the Rochester Hemophilia Center and the Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis, and was selected by the White House as a nominee to the IRS Oversight Board.

He was awarded a fellowship to the Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester where he earned an MBA. He received a bachelor of science degree in computer engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

For more information, contact the Office of Public Relations at (716) 888-2790.

Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders - intelligent, caring, faithful individuals able to pursue and promote excellence in their professions, their communities and their service to humanity.

 

I was one of the attendees sponsored by the Canisius MBA Program at the Buffalo Niagara 360’s Lunch and Learn event last Thursday, November 5^th, held at Shanghai Reds restaurant.  The event, packaged as an opportunity to “share lunch and insight with business executives” working in the area, proved to be just that. 

 

The lunch session consisted of 12 entrepreneurs/executives from different industries including banking, technology, and media just to name a few.  A dynamic combination of both young professionals as well as students, scoured the room ready to network.  The event was neatly organized with 30 minutes of mingling in the beginning, followed by lunch at a table with an executive of your choice, and another hour at the end for those people who were interested in additional networking.

 

I managed to sit at a table with Rich McCarthy, Senior Vice President in Alternative Banking at M&T.  Rich shared his perspective on his career as he climbed his was from a junior credit analyst to his current position. Alternatively, several of the attendees sitting at my table also shared their stories with regards to their career path.

 

These types of sessions are a great way to meet business leaders highlighted by Buffalo Niagara 360 but also a tremendous opportunity to network with other attendees.  I am looking forward to the next one.

 

For more information, visit http://www.buffaloniagara360.org/

 

Sangwani Mabhena   MBA ’10

AVP & Senior Auditor, Group Audit USA | HSBC BANK PLC