Board of Directors

Meet IT-oLogy's Board of Directors.

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Stephen K. Wiggins Chairman, the Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management Board and Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

As the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wiggins is in charge of all corporate systems strategic planning, development, programming and enhancements.  Under his direction, BlueCross operates one of the most advanced data processing centers in the United States, processing more than 13 billion online health care transactions and 850 million claims each year.  He was named one of the Elite Eight of 2008 by Insurance & Technology Magazine in recognition of the top eight insurance technology executives in the country. In addition, BlueCross has won numerous national awards related to technology during his tenure.  He currently has a staff of 2,250.  Wiggins has been employed with BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina since 1979.  He earned the designation of Certified Systems Professional in 1985.  Wiggins graduated with honors from Clemson University in 1976.

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Mark Anzani Associate Director of the Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management and Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (System z) at IBM

Mark Anzani’s nearly 30-year career has been focused on the development of the technologies that underpin the IT industry. The area where most of Mark’s work has occurred is in the hardware technologies that are at the heart of large Enterprise class systems, most commonly found in medium and large companies around the world.

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Andy Bernardin Associate Director of the Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management and Client Director (Mid-Atlantic Public Sector Team) at IBM

Andy Bernardin is responsible for managing the business relationships IBM has with health, education and government clients in South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland. Andy’s team helps IBM’s clients implement and integrate information technology solutions into their day-to-day business. Andy and his team focus on using IT to help clients provide better service to patients, citizens, and students.

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Tony Ambler Dean, College of Engineering & Computing, University of South Carolina

Tony Ambler is Dean of the College of Engineering & Computing at USC. He was appointed on January 1^st, 2011 having previously been at the University of Texas at Austin.

Tony gained his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees all from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He was appointed to the faculty there until moving to Brunel University in West London. He was appointed to the first Racal-Redac Chair in Test Technology. Participating in many industry-related programs in the UK, Europe, and the US in the area of test and quality for electronic boards and systems, he also led and completed a program to license a new set of designs, design processes for nuclear reactor protection systems.

In 1996 he accepted the offer of a position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and was department chair there for 9 years prior to moving to USC. During that time he created the successful Masters degree program in Engineering Management, but also oversaw the establishment of several major research centers. He has also been on steering committees of several major international conferences (2-3,000 attendees) as well as smaller workshops of ~60 participants.

More recently Tony has been involved with the creation of an industry oriented system design program

In 1998 he was elected to Fellow of the institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in recognition of his work on the economics of electronic testing.

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Dr. Brian J. Mihalik Dean, the College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management, University of South Carolina

Dr. Brian J. Mihalik has over 20 years of administrative experience in both the academic and public sectors and has served as an administrator and/or faculty member at six state universities. While at Clemson in the early 1980s, he created one of South Carolina’s first microcomputer labs housed in the College of Forestry and Natural Resources. Brian devoted almost a decade developing and offering professional development programs in IT for the National Park Service and Army Corp of Engineers. He has published over 100 articles ranging from refereed journal articles to land grant extension publications. His research on global and mega-events has appeared in publications such as USA TODAY and Atlanta Journal Constitution and covers events from the World's Fair to the Olympic Games.

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Ravi Ravindra Chief Technology Officer, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

As chief technology officer at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Ravi is responsible for current and future technology roadmaps, industry trends and emerging technologies. Health care reforms and new innovations in the IT industry will require a competitive workforce in the years to come to stay ahead of competition at a global level. The next generation workforce needs to be not only use technology, but also innovate and adopt the changing needs of younger generation.

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Dayton Semerjian General Manager of CA’s Mainframe Customer Solutions Unit, CA Technologies

Dayton Semerjian leads the team that drives CA's Mainframe 2.0 strategy and brings to market a broad portfolio of mainframe management software. In this role, he is responsible for key aspects of the mainframe business, including setting the vision, business strategy, product management and marketing and driving the overall P&L. A results-driven technology industry executive whose experience spans organizations from pre-revenue to $25 billion, Semerjian has been designing, building and growing businesses that deliver superior performance and financial returns for almost 20 years.

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