Women Of The Year

From 2002 to 2008, Guido was the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategies, of CompuCredit, where he managed global IT operations and led the delivery of IT services to all business units, transforming the IT department into a recognized, high-performing service organization.  Guido’s experience and background include senior management positions at Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers, more than 20 years of international experience across industries, degrees in engineering from the University of Rome (Italy), and appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Guido is a frequent speaker and magazine contributor on the topics of payments, technology management, intersection of business and technology, leadership, innovation and organizational change. He is the previous Chairman of the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA), has served on the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Board of Directors, and is an advisor to early-stage technology companies. He has been recognized as one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders in 2008.  He is the 2004 GCLA National CIO of the Year, a recipient of the CIO 100 Award in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and of the Society of Information Management (SIM) Senior Leadership Award in 2006. He received the first Techbridge Community Builder Award in 2008 and is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta’s Class of 2008.

Guido and his wife, Ellen, live in Atlanta with their two children, Lorenzo and Alessia.

Before joining Turknett, Susan completed a 24-year career with BellSouth Corporation (now AT&T) where she held a variety of leadership positions of increasing responsibility. Her career spanned a broad range of line and staff functions including network operations, strategic planning, human factors, management assessment, technical training and executive support. 

At the executive level, Susan specialized in internal and external communications. Working with the Network Executive Vice President and serving as a liaison for BellSouth International, she participated in over a hundred local, national and international telecommunications forums focusing on the future of broadband. Susan also directed support services for over 35,000 Network employees across a nine state region. These services included succession planning and leadership development. 

A native of Franklin, Kentucky, Susan graduated with honor from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, with a B.A. in Psychology. She also completed the Executive Development Program at Boston University’s Leadership Institute. As a community volunteer, Susan has served as an adult literacy tutor, a teen mentor, a help line counselor, a fundraiser, and a member of the Governor’s Committee on Post-Secondary Education. Supporting women’s leadership, Susan has served on the following boards: Atlanta Women’s Network (AWN), Georgia Executive Women’s Network (GEWN), Board of Director’s Network (BDN), and Possible Woman Foundation International (PWFI). Within these organizations, she has served on executive, scholarship and fundraising committees. In 2007, Susan was named as a Charter Board Member for the Georgia Women’s Institute, and in 2008 joined the board for Literacy Volunteers of Atlanta. In March, 2009, she was elected vice president of the Atlanta chapter of CEO Netweavers, a national organization founded on the principles of servant leadership.  Most recently, in 2010, Susan joined the Agnes Scott College Alumnae Board.    

A special passion of Susan’s is her “SHEroes” project, a resource dedicated to female leaders. She has interviewed dozens of women—inspirational role models in fields from A to Z—and has recorded their life and career stories along with their leadership insights. Some of these profiles are available at www.turknett.com/sectionR/women.html. Susan’s other passion is being “Xanna” to four spirited grandchildren, 3 girls and a boy.

Most recently, Mark served as senior vice president and chief information officer of Atlanta-based Matria Healthcare, leading 350 IT professionals supporting 50 facilities located across the USA. Prior to joining Matria Healthcare in 2005, he was chief technology officer and a board director of Vodafone Global Content Services, part of the world's largest mobile cellular phone service provider based in the UK.

From 1999 to 2001, Mark was chief technology officer at Weather.com/The Weather Channel, where his initiatives were credited with significantly improving customer satisfaction during severe weather situations and helping to propel weather.com to become the most highly accessed weather web site in the world.

Mark has also served as chief technology officer for eBay where his leadership resulted in the improvement of the company's web site stability, availability and overall quality at a time of exponential growth. Mark spent eighteen years with IBM prior to joining eBay and was an executive-on-loan to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Games in the role of chief integration architect.

Mark reports directly to Gordon Wilson, Deputy CEO, Travelport and President and Chief Executive Officer, Travelport GDS.

For the eight years prior to joining King & Spalding Mr. Viscelli was Director of Application Development in the IT department of Delta Air Lines, where he was responsible for the design, development and implementation of distributed applications supporting Delta’s Operations Control Center, Flight Operations Division and In-Flight Services Division.

In addition to his career at Delta, Mr. Viscelli has 20 years’ experience in information technology and consulting with Rohr Industries in San Diego, Calif., Lockheed-Martin in Marietta, Ga., and Eastern Airlines in Miami, Fla. He also has served as Director, Professional Services for American Software and as a senior management consultant with Deloitte Consulting. 

Mr. Viscelli holds a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Management of Technology, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

As CEO for his own company, Crawford Corporate Coaching, Tom coaches C‐level executives and agency owners in the art of building successful business environments using his proprietary Crawford Management System. Concurrently, Tom is serving as the Chairman of the Board of Superior Access Insurance Services, the nation’s leading online wholesaler of insurance products.

The financial industry views Tom as a problem solver and builder of companies. He has had a major impact at Allstate, CNA and Prudential, where he served as President and CEO. In 1984, he built Southern Heritage Insurance Company from the ground up which was bought by Geico in 1991. Most recently he was President and CEO of Crawford & Company, the world’s largest independent provider of claims management services, and subsequently served as Chairman of the Board of Crawford & Company until 2009.

Tom has served on numerous industry boards in the property and casualty and life insurance sector and has given commencement addresses at three major universities. He is sought after as a keynote speaker for conferences and corporate events all over the U.S. In 2007, Tom received the prestigious Turknett Leadership Character Award which is based on character and integrity in leadership, a topic that is often the subject of his keynote addresses.

A champion of servant leadership, Crawford is President of the Atlanta Chapter of CEO Netweavers and is on the board of the national organization.