Thomas Furnas

Thomas Furnas

Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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  • AnywherEnergy Systems Inc. Graphic

    AnywherEnergy Systems Inc.

    Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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    Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

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    Columbus, Ohio, United States

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    Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

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    Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

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Education

  • Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University Graphic

    Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University

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  • This one-day seminar was presented by a consortium of Case Western Reserve University, the International School of Engineering (INSOFE), and Soothsayer Analytics LLC.

  • Digital technology is fundamentally changing the competitive landscape. We are surrounded by products that are connected to the internet. Ironically, innovation is never about just inventing new technology. Innovation is making technology meaningful and valuable to us. It requires us to truly understand us (people), what we do, why we do what we do, what makes us happy and what we consider meaningful and valuable.

    Digital innovation is not about technology. It is a deeply humanistic…

    Digital technology is fundamentally changing the competitive landscape. We are surrounded by products that are connected to the internet. Ironically, innovation is never about just inventing new technology. Innovation is making technology meaningful and valuable to us. It requires us to truly understand us (people), what we do, why we do what we do, what makes us happy and what we consider meaningful and valuable.

    Digital innovation is not about technology. It is a deeply humanistic endeavor to improve human lives with digital technology.*
    *Youngjin Yoo, PhD

    In order to fully harness the transformative capacity of digital technology, we must gain deeper insights on people and their actions, meanings and values. Only when we are equipped with such deeper humanistic cultural understanding of people and their actions, are we able to create meaningful digital innovations that have enduring values in the society.

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Volunteer Experience

  • Turnaround Management Association Graphic

    Ohio Chapter Board Member

    Turnaround Management Association

    - Present 7 years 4 months

    Education

    The Turnaround Management Association (TMA) is a global non-profit organization comprised of turnaround and corporate renewal professionals.

  • Cleveland Sight Center Graphic

    Board Member

    Cleveland Sight Center

    - Present 16 years 5 months

    Health

    Board Chair, May 2015 - May 2017. Board member since 2008
    Have also served as Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee and Technology Advisory Committee

  • JumpStart Inc. Graphic

    Volunteer Entreprenuer Mentor

    JumpStart Inc.

    - Present 8 years 6 months

    Economic Empowerment

    JumpStart is a nationally recognized nonprofit accelerating the success of diverse entrepreneurs, their high growth companies and the ecosystems supporting them. Have served as a member of a mentoring team for several startups.

  • Greater Cleveland Partnership Graphic

    NEOSA/OHTech CIO Symposium

    Greater Cleveland Partnership

    - 9 years

    Education

    Annual CIO Symposium Event Planning Committee and Session Moderator including: IT Innovation, Big Data, Data Analytics, IoT, Mobile App vs. Web, Open Source, IT Metrics, InfoSec, etc.

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    Founding Board Member

    OneCommunity

    - 4 years 1 month

    Economic Empowerment

    OneCommunity was a non-profit founded to expand broadband access and adoption to strengthen Northeast Ohio. Founding board member of OneCleveland (renamed to OneCommunity, now named DigitalC), network architecture and finance committee member.

  • Cleveland Foundation Graphic

    Civic Innovation Lab - Founding mentorship board member

    Cleveland Foundation

    - 5 years

    Economic Empowerment

    The Civic Innovation Lab was a project funded by The Cleveland Foundation, which offered mentorship, training, and funding for entrepreneurial businesses and ideas that can have an impact on the Greater Cleveland economy. Founding mentorship board member.

Honors & Awards

  • CIO of the Year (Runner-up)

    OHTech

  • CIO of the Year

    NEOSA/OHTech

  • Crain's Cleveland 40 Under 40

    Crain's Cleveland Business

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