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Health care benefits provider Aetna promotes Michael Mathias to vice president and chief technology officer; Bally Technologies, one of the largest providers of casino management software, puts its VP of technology, Bryan Kelly, in charge of new innovation lab.
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Aetna Names Michael Mathias CTO
Health care benefits provider Aetna has promoted Michael Mathias into the role of vice president and chief technology officer. Mathias had been head of enterprise architecture for Aetna Information Systems. He will report to Chief Information Officer Meg McCarthy.
Mathias joined Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna in 1993 as a systems engineer and has led the development and implementation of a number of strategic technology initiatives and served as the company's key technical architect. In his new role, Mathias has been charged with aligning Aetna's technology vision with business strategy by "integrating company processes with the appropriate technologies."
Aetna provides health care benefits and services for some 37 million people.
Gaming Company Aims to Drive Innovation
Bally Technologies, one of the largest providers of slot machines, casino management systems and related software to the gambling industry, has formed an innovation lab to spur the development of new technologies.
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The innovation lab, which will be based in Northern California, will be headed by Bryan Kelly, Bally's vice president of technology. In a statement, the company said the innovation lab will research emerging technologies to "help accelerate the commercial deployment of the most cutting-edge games and systems technologies of the Networked Floor of the Future."
As part of the initiative, the Las Vegas-based company has established an Office of the Chief Technology Officer to serve as a thought leader on gaming technology. The Office of the CTO will be comprised of company executives, as well as outside thought leaders. Included among that group are John Acres, chief executive of Acres-Fiore, a gaming content provider; Tom Frisina, who has served as a consultant to Bally over the last four years in the area of third-party product development; and Robert Luciano, former Bally CTO who has returned to the company following a medical leave.
Aetna Names Michael Mathias CTO
Health care benefits provider Aetna has promoted Michael Mathias into the role of vice president and chief technology officer. Mathias had been head of enterprise architecture for Aetna Information Systems. He will report to Chief Information Officer Meg McCarthy.
Mathias joined Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna in 1993 as a systems engineer and has led the development and implementation of a number of strategic technology initiatives and served as the company's key technical architect. In his new role, Mathias has been charged with aligning Aetna's technology vision with business strategy by "integrating company processes with the appropriate technologies."
Aetna provides health care benefits and services for some 37 million people.
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