the 2021 new york metro rlf

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Steven John is the CIO of Aramark Uniform Services & Aramark Beverage Services, a leading food service, facilities and uniform services provider to global clients. As part of Aramark’s executive leadership team, he’s responsible for the overall leadership of the Information Systems Team, enhancing the customer experience and accelerating the company’s growth strategy through digital innovation and technology. He’s been named to the ‘CIO Hall of Fame’ (Class of 2018) by IDG/CIO.com, been recognized as a ‘Premier 100 IT Leader’ by Computerworld Magazine, has received the CIO Executive Council’s Leadership Award and been recognized by Information Week as an industry innovator for his work implementing cloud solutions. Steven holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of Utah and completed graduate work at Temple University.  

Corky Valenti  has 30-plus years of consulting and leadership experience in strategic communications, marketing and technical communications, and training design and development for technology organizations. He recently retired as senior manager of Operations communications for Asurion, the global leader in device protection and personal technology support. He was previously a VP at JPMorgan Chase, where he headed internal communications for Commercial Banking Risk. Before that, he was Assistant VP, IT Communications for Chubb Corporation, responsible for leading strategic internal and external communications and providing support for the Global CIO.  Corky became involved with RLF in 2004 and graduated from the program in 2007. He completed the Hartford LDR program in 2009 and received the Friend of RLF Award in 2012.