Before becoming Global CIO of Zoom in 2018, Harry served for five years as CIO & Managing Director at KPMG and for seven years as CIO & Senior Managing Director-Partner at the Blackstone Group. He also has served as CIO of Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse and CTO for UBS Americas. He has been inducted into CIO Magazine’s Hall of Fame and recognized as one of the world’s top CIOs by Computerworld. He is a board member of or advisor to a number of organizations, including BioDental Sciences, Rewards Network, and the Leukemia & Lymphona Society.
In this video he talks about:
- The affect of COVID-19 on his organization
- Some of the factors that helped Zoom scale up in such short time span
- The biggest challenge that he faced while scaling up
- The management lesson that he wishes he had known earlier in his career
- His advice to aspiring IT leaders.
About Zoom Video Communications:
Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Their easy, reliable cloud platform for video, phone, content sharing, and chat runs across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom was founded in 2011 by experienced leaders and engineers from Cisco and WebEx. Every founding engineer has over 10 years of real-time collaboration software experience. Their mission is to develop a people-centric cloud service that transforms the real-time collaboration experience and improves the quality and effectiveness of communications forever.
