Gary
Erickson has over 30 years of management and executive experience including the
positions of CIO, COO, Director of Sales, and Global Director Quality and
Manufacturing. In 1994, Gary was named one of the country’s leading mid market
CIO's by Deloitte and Touche. Gary’s was one of two founders of Great Lakes
Technologies Group. Great Lakes Technologies Group was recognized as one of
Michigan’s most successful start-ups. It received the Ernst and Young
Entrepreneur of the Year Award, was
named the Best Place to Work in Southeast
Michigan for 4 years in a row by Crain’s, and received the Automation
Alley Technology Company of the Year Award.
Gary is on the Board of Directors the Detroit Chapter of the Society of
Information Management and was on the Board of Directors of Automation Alley and
Digital Detroit. Gary was the former President of the Detroit Chapter of the
Society of Information Management. Gary was also a member of Oakland County's
Business Roundtable, and Oakland University Business School's Board of Advisors.
Gary holds a Bachelor and Masters in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and
a MBA from the University of Michigan.
Gary Robertson,
CPC has over 38 years of management and executive experience. He has served as Chief Information Officer and Plant Manager at Delco Electronics, and Chief Technology Officer at Delphi. Gary currently is President of the Michigan chapter of the Society of Information Management, and is a member of the Technology Business Committee of Automation Alley. He previously served on the HP/Compaq Global board of advisors and the Digex Customer advisory board. Other past professional memberships include: Board of Directors, Product Data Exchange Specification (PDES), Inc.; Entertainment Chairman, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) – Milwaukee Chapter; American Business Council in Singapore; American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) Indiana Chapter.
He is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt, and has significant business process reengineering experience. Gary is also a Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC) by the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS) Gary has a Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, General Motors Institute, and attended the Carnegie Mellon University Program for Executives.
Larry Hamilton has over 30 years of management and executive experience including the positions
of MIS Director for The Budd Company (currently Thyssen-Krupp Budd), Vice President of Information Systems for Textron Automotive Company
and the Global Director of Manufacturing Plant Floor Systems for General Motors.
Larry also held positions in the Aluminum industry (Anaconda Aluminum) and the Steel Industry (Youngstown Steel) prior to working in the Automotive industry.
Larry was a founding member of the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Information Management (SIM). He has held positions of Treasurer, Vice President and President of the Detroit SIM Chapter. Larry has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from Indiana State University and a Masters degree in Business administration from Indiana University. He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honorary business fraternity. He completed the Executive Management Program at Babson College, is a Certified Systems Executive from General Motors University and has an e-Business certification from the Gartner Group. Larry is also a Six Sigma Greenbelt, certified by the University of Michigan College of Manufacturing Engineering.
John Murdock has over 30 years of IT management and executive experience serving the Insurance and Financial Services industries.
He served as President for Systems Task Group, Intl (currently MajescoMastek)
a premier national provider of software products and services to the P&C insurance industry.
He was Vice President and CIO for multi-national GMAC Insurance, as well as, a member of the Board.
John also held progressive leadership positions as Vice President and IT Director for First Union Bank (currently Wells Fargo);
VP and Systems & Programming Manager for Huntington Bank; AVP and Systems & Programming Manager for Ohio Savings Bank (currently AmTrust Bank);
and Senior Consultant for Ernst & Whinney (currently E&Y).
John enabled financial services organizations to grow their businesses organically or thru acquisitions,
while increasing both the effectiveness and efficiencies of their IT services organizations.
He increased the performance of IT organizations via the application of systems management processes such as CMMi and ITIL;
leveraging offshore Outsourced models; employing techniques of Business Reengineering and BPM;
and delivering multi-tier Service Oriented Architectures.
John was one of the founding members of the CSC Index Summit for Systems Development Directors;
member of Toshiba’s end-user Advisory council; and Mortgage Bankers Association Technical Committee.
John holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Michigan State University and
attended Lansing Community College with emphasis on Advanced Management. 
