RECENT CIO OF US EMBASSY BAGHDAD

BILL CAFFERY

May 18, 2006

Bill Caffery, who is Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, will speak at the weekly meeting of the Y's Men of Westport/Weston on Thursday, May 18th at 10:00 AM at the Saugatuck Congregational Church, 245 Post Road East.

Before his US Embassy position, he was CIO of AOL and VP of Research, Gartner Group. Involved with information technology since 1967, Bill Caffery currently serves as chief of staff and CIO for the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), a temporary government agency set up by Presidential Directive to monitor the execution of the $20.8 billion Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF). Just prior to his current assignment, he served for ten months in Baghdad as CIO for the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (IRMO), a U.S. Department of State organization established to succeed the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in June 2004. IRMO administers the $20.8 billion in US assistance to Iraq and guides reconstruction projects both to modernize Iraq's infrastructure and to foster conditions favorable to the stable growth of a robust market economy.

In 1999, he joined America Online as its first CIO, and led efforts to integrate the company's IT systems with those of and Time Warner. Before joining AOL, he founded Lohengrin a Westport, CT, company engaged in the creation, sale and production of computer-generated animation and digital video content delivered via CD-ROM, broadcast television and the Web.

For the fourteen years prior to that Mr. Caffery was an analyst with Gartner Group, the world's leading IT consultancy. There he focused most of his research efforts on advanced information technology and the economics of information itself. In 1994, he founded, staffed and led the company's Multimedia advisory service for clients seeking to incorporate digital audio, video and image elements into CD-ROM and teleconferencing applications. He conceived and developed Gartner's first multimedia CD-ROM.

In 1990, he founded, staffed and led the company's Advanced Technology Groups (ATG) client advisory service. Mr. Caffery originated Gartner's annual portfolio of ten-year technology diffusion curves, a year-by-year quantitative forecast for each of fifty key information technologies. He conceived, designed, wrote, edited and published MATTER, the widely acclaimed quarterly technology and management journal for ATG clients. Before joining Gartner, Mr. Caffery held various staff positions with Harris Corporation of Melbourne, FL, Booz, Allen Hamilton of Bethesda, MD, and the Draper Laboratories of Cambridge, MA.

Mr. Caffery was graduated from the Harvard Business School with an M.B.A. and holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautical Astronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was enrolled at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1964.