For May’s East Coast CIO Forum, Truision will feature Tsvi Gal, Chief Technology Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) to discuss “Making It Real: How Using Advanced Technology Saves Lives.” on Thursday, May 6th at 12:00pm EST.
Juan Perin, Senior Director of Research and High Performance Computing at MSK will be joining Tsvi in the discussion. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has ranked as one of the top treatment and research institutions in the world and is fighting every day not just to treat cancer but to cure it. Tsvi will focus on the usage of far reaching uses of technology such as AI reading of imaging, genomic sequencing on GPUs as well as concepts such as digital twins and high performance computing.
Tsvi Gal’s Bio
Tsvi Gal has been appointed by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) as Chief Technology Officer and head of Infrastructure, effective April 2020. In this role, Tsvi will set the technical vision and lead the company’s technological development in support of the digital strategy and make technical recommendations that align with MKS goals. Tsvi joins MSK from Morgan Stanley where he served in numerous roles including CTO of Enterprise Services, Head of Strategy & Architecture and others. Since he joined in early 2012, Tsvi was responsible for the creation and implementation of Morgan Stanley’s multi-year strategy and target state architecture and the evolution of the bank into a modern, efficient and effective organization. Prior to Morgan Stanley Tsvi has served in various CIO and CTO in several banks including Merrill Lynch/Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo as well as in non-banks including Exigen Capital (a private equity firm) where he was a General Partner, AT&T where he was President of ATT.COM and Time Warner Music where, as CIO, he led the launch of the digital transformation towards on-line music. Tsvi is a recipient of the Einstein Award for Technology and Science from the President of Israel for pioneering on-line banking and trading, Tsvi’s career spans over three decades.
Juan Carlos Perin’s Bio
With foundations and experience in Molecular Biology, Physics, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, Mr. Perin enables scientific progress by providing both the technical and application level support to investigators and physicians throughout MSK. Prior to MSK, Juan was working at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he help lead a team of Bioinformaticians to deliver computational solutions for data intensive research needs. It is from this foundation that he came to MSK to expand upon his passion for applying technology to demanding research needs. Throughout his time at MSK, Juan has grown from serving as the Director of High Performance Computing (focused primarily on basic research needs), then as Senior Director for all Research Computing needs, and now as the Technical Strategy lead for Technology services at MSK, ensuring success in the ongoing advancements in technologies at MSK.
