Suneel Sajnani

• Work with CIO staff to distill key strategic initiatives and goals o Synthesize actionable plans and programs for these initiatives o Operationalize the initiatives across the existing organization structure o Track progress and deadlines of strategic initiatives and goals • Engaging with C-level executives to define and execute on Enterprise cloud transformation strategies. • Anticipate and prioritize effectively, lead multiple teams and deal with C-suite stakeholders on a regular basis • Bringing multiple departments and multiple groups together in getting alignment and driving consensus • Work with leadership team to simplify complex issues, all the way through to be able to anticipate issues, recognize the root causes of problems and applying creative problem solving • Coordinate and oversee CIO Office strategic initiatives and projects including, but not limited to emerging technology, architecture, and organizational alignment and transformation. • Coordinate and oversee annual planning process from an operational and budgetary perspective. • Key senior leadership member in defining the vision, strategy, operational leadership, policy and governance mechanisms, technology investments and IT security execution • Created an actionable IT Infrastructure and Applications execution plan for the Cloud migration journey • Providing expertise and thought-leadership in complex business-IT transformations, platform modernization, enterprise systems, digital transformation, cloud deployment/migrations, governance, and architecture. • Mobilized, managed, and delivered a 100% successful WFH (work from home) program for the enterprise during the pandemic • Member of several strategic steering committees delivering on M&A activities, RTO (return to office) and various business alignment initiatives • Fiscally responsible to manage the budget and deliver on the committed ROI and savings for strategic initiatives

• Gaining the trust of customers’ by devising long-term cloud strategies, evolving the organization, delivering AWS programs to help deliver on the desired capabilities and outcomes. • Demonstrating experience in sharing best practices on Enterprise migrations from other AWS customers. • Identifying motivators for cloud adoption and unblocking enterprise challenges. • Introducing mechanisms for wide scale adoption such as Cloud and DevOps enablement functions, Centers of Excellence. • Developing and delivering workshops to educate leaders and identify/address blockers and build action plans. • Delivering a prescriptive guidance or PoV (point of view) to include AWS solutions. Examples: Hybrid Cloud on AWS: Provisioning, Operations, Management, and Monitoring, Disaster Recovery and business continuity. • Delivering Cloud Adoption Framework Workshops on Envisioning and Alignment.

• Responsible and fully accountable for overall IT strategy for Enterprise Technology function. • Worked closely with the Hearst leadership teams at both the corporate and divisional levels to create a centralized Shared Services Organization to support major Hearst businesses to provide common core services, SLA’s, innovation, finance, and chargeback transparency. • Worked with C-level executives to define Enterprise Cloud strategies, justifying ROI analysis, savings, and implementation plans. These efforts enabled Hearst to decrease complexity and increase the overall flexibility of its enterprise technology customers and its associated services. • Responsible for providing SLA driven services to all of Hearst’s global customers that cover Cloud services inclusive of infrastructure, architecture, and security functions. • Created and implemented the plan to consolidate 29 Data Centers to 4 strategic global locations in the US and EMEA, thus reducing the company’s global data center footprint and moving the workloads to the Cloud. This enabled greater speed-to-market solutions, agility, and less expensive solutions to address the business’s priorities. This initiative has a completion target of 2019. • Lead and championed Cloud first strategy for all current and planned application/infrastructure environments. Accomplishing this entailed: • Partnering with top tier AWS managed services vendor/integration partners to transition workloads • Creating a detailed “Fitment” analysis/assessment to determine feasibility of target workloads to migrate to AWS Cloud • Leading technical architecture teams to develop secure, scalable, and flexible architecture and deploy in AWS • Chaired the Senior IT Technology Leadership Committee and was an active member of the Hearst Risk Committee. • Accelerated IT integration of critical services for newly acquired companies resulting in faster assimilation into Corporate standards and compliance.

• Created Shared Services and successfully converted all West Coast Fox companies with no disruption to the business. Of significance was the conversion of Fox International Channels & Fox Interactive Media during a period of hyper growth for Myspace. This resulted in driving cost efficiencies and improving service levels by 25%. • Developed a multi-year strategy to outsource commodity functions/applications such as data centers, networks, messaging, storage, servers (windows/Unix/Linux/AS-400), database management, collaboration products, and SaaS applications such as talent Management, benefits administration, travel etc. • Outsourcing initiatives resulted in 40% savings and improved overall operational efficiencies • Negotiated and implemented several outsourcing/offshore services agreements for infrastructure outsourcing, end user computing, SaaS applications, and virtual private cloud environments • Re-organized IT governance functions with regards to roles/responsibilities, change management, production turnover, onshore/offshore staffing ratios, and on-call 24 X 7 functions • Made frequent trips to offshore locations to develop and enhance working relationship with engineering teams and local management • Successfully managed large-scale, highly-technical teams representing a global IT organization providing services in over 60 countries. • Active member of several executive level steering committees, setting the strategic direction of the IT organization and influencing business directional decisions. • Managed geographically dispersed data centers in US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin American regions. • Played a lead role in broader News Corp efforts to drive infrastructure consolidation in support of the company’s energy efficiency initiatives.

• Responsible for implementing nationwide infrastructure to support integration of multiple consumer promotion companies and development of various online/print businesses. • Reorganized and re-engineered the business’s global infrastructure. Worked closely with the CIO to build a compelling infrastructure strategy. • Developed a centralized IT services organization to improve end-user experience/satisfaction. • Negotiated and implemented a multi-year offshore services agreement for Call Center/Help Desk services. It included extensive RFI/RFP, visits to offshore companies in India, periodic review of contractual terms, SLA measurements, service improvements, and staff re-calibration. These efforts resulted in 40% operational savings. • Successfully implemented a nationwide MPLS network capable of supporting offices across the United States with 50% more bandwidth at 40% cost reduction. • Provided all technical infrastructure required to support an Internet Couponing and a Database Marketing business. • Performed enterprise-wide upgrade of applications including Ceridian HRIS, Oracle Financials, CRM etc.

• Taught Computer Science courses for Graduate/Undergraduate programs.

• Responsible for leading the IT organization in providing infrastructure support and deployment of all hospital-based systems. • Successfully completed replacement of all application systems by implementing McKesson-HBOC environment, thereby upgrading aging manual systems/infrastructure and providing updated and automated functionality. • Managed all technology integration aspects of a merger between two HealthCare institutions. • Installed a parallel data center and applications environment to test Y2K thoroughly to ensure operations continuity.

• Responsible for all desktop deployment/support and network connectivity/uptime to corporate offices and nationwide stores. • Improved processes in obtaining real time data from stores, enabling the home office to have immediate access to sales information from each individual store location. This facilitated quicker and better decision making. • Structured staffing/support expectations aligned with seasonal/cyclical demands for business processes & IT upgrades.

• Responsible for technology audits for various financial systems. Adhered to SOX and other regulatory compliance standards. • Performed intrusion detection to simulate network violation, thereby ensuring/recommending security updates. • Performed firewall rules/policy governance and constant review to ensure restricted access to application environments.

• Responsible for managing staff to provide all End User Computing related functions to support banking operations. • Transitioned all financial applications during the acquisition period.