Meet the Team

The Enterprisers Project team includes the editorial team, the Community Contributor Collaborative, and a select group of CIOs and IT executives we call Enterprisers.

Editorial Team

Carla Rudder

Carla Rudder is a community manager and program manager for The Enterprisers Project. She enjoys bringing new authors into the community and helping them craft articles that showcase their voice and deliver novel, actionable insights for readers.  

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Katie Sanders

Katie Sanders

Katie Sanders is the Content and Community Manager for The Enterprisers Project, seeking contributors who have expertise that can be shared with an audience of CIOs and IT leaders. She has always been interested in building relationships and connecting people.

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Lauren Pritchett

Lauren Pritchett

Lauren Pritchett is Managing Editor for The Enterprisers Project. She is passionate about connecting people with one another through the art of storytelling.

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Community Contributor Collaborative

The Community Contributor Collaborative represents our most trusted and committed contributors.

Cedric Wells

Cedric Wells is a Millennial IT executive and tech optimist who's passionate about people and diversity. He previously served as Director of IT Business Solutions responsible for corporate IT at Flooid. Cedric has an entrepreneurial spirit and is most excited about technologies involving edge computing, AI, and cloud.

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Dan Roberts

Dan Roberts

Dan Roberts is CEO of Ouellette & Associates Consulting.

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David Egts

David Egts

David Egts is MuleSoft's first-ever Public Sector field CTO. He is the executive-level connective tissue between MuleSoft and top public sector decision makers and influencers globally.

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Drew Bird

Drew Bird, MSc, MA, and author of "The Leader’s Guide To Emotional Intelligence," is a coach, trainer, facilitator and speaker. He is founder of The EQ Development Group.

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E.G. Nadhan

E.G. Nadhan is the Chief Architect and Strategist for North America at Red Hat. He provides thought leadership on various concepts including Cloud, Blockchain, Analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) through multiple channels including industry conferences, executive roundtables as well as customer-specific executive briefing sessions.

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Eveline Oehrlich

Eveline Oehrlich is an industry analyst, author, speaker and business advisor focused on digital transformation. Eveline is the Chief Research Director at DevOps Institute where she leads the research and analysis for the Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report and other research projects.

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Ganes Kesari

Ganes Kesari is an entrepreneur, AI thought leader, author, and TEDx speaker. He co-founded Gramener, where he heads Data Science Advisory and Innovation. He advises executives of large organizations on data-driven decision making.

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Isaac Sacolick

Isaac Sacolick is the president and founder of StarCIO, a technology learning company that guides leaders on digital transformation. A lifelong technologist, Isaac has served in startup CTO and transformational CIO roles.

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Jonathan Feldman

Jonathan Feldman is the CIO for Wake County in NC and is an award-winning CIO, speaker, and writer. He was named a top CIO to follow by the Huffington Post and was honored with a Frost & Sullivan CIO Impact Award. He was previously CIO for the City of Asheville, NC.

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Kate Yuan

Kate Yuan is a startup consultant with a focus on go-to-market strategies and enterprise sales. She has worked with startups in four continents and 30+ countries as an investor, advisor, and operator.

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Ken Ferguson

Ken Ferguson is Senior Partner at Berkshire Recruiting Services - IT Technology Recruiters. As an ​IT Recruiter, Career Counselor, Corporate Adviser, and Life Coach​, Ken has over 25 years of IT industry search experience.

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Rich Theil

Rich Theil

Rich helps IT Leaders fix Agile teams burdened by inadequate Product Management and broken business partner relationships. Prior to starting The Noble Foundry, Rich spent 12 years as CIO for a large, scrappy, and aggressive non-profit in Cincinnati.

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Roberta Matuson

For more than 25 years, Roberta Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting, has helped leaders in highly regarded companies, including General Motors, Takeda, and Microsoft achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent.

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Will Markow

Will Markow is the Vice President of Applied Research – Talent at EMSI Burning Glass where he oversees the research and consulting team focused on strategic workforce planning and the impact of emerging technologies on the workforce.

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Meet the Enterprisers

Today CIOs must guide their organizations in ways that remove barriers to growth, inspire innovation, and create new business opportunities. We call these CIOs Enterprisers.