Larry Bonfante, CIO, United States Tennis Association
With over 24 years of industry experience, Larry is a seasoned professional who has held leadership positions in the financial, pharmaceutical, not-for-profit, consulting, and sports and entertainment industries. As Chief Information Officer at the United States Tennis Association, Larry is responsible for delivering tournament and league applications to the over 700,000 members of the USTA. In addition he has worked to implement a CRM and Membership Management program to support the growing membership of the Association. His organization is responsible for all information technology related services supporting the US Open, which is the largest and most highly attended sporting event in the world. Prior to joining the USTA, Larry spent ten years at Pfizer Inc. where he served in various leadership capacities including Director of Global Network Services and Director of Global IT Planning. He has extensive experience in running global services organizations and has implemented and managed a number of large complex outsourcing partnerships over the course of his career. Larry serves on the Boards of the Westchester-Fairfield chapter of SIM, the Technology Managers Forum’s Futures Advisory Board and the Center for Business Information and Technologies at the University of Bridgeport. He also serves as a member of the CIO Executive Council, the Editorial Advisory Board and Events Committee for CIO Magazine and is a mentor and adjunct faculty member of the Columbia University Executive Masters program in Technology Management. Larry is an experienced public speaker who has presented at such industry conferences such as IDC, Comdex, Caucus, Network-Interop, and the Technology Manager Forum and was the keynote speaker at the 1998 Yankee Group Global Networking Conference. He has written articles that have been published in trade journals such ac CIO magazine.
Larry is married and has two daughters. His interests include sports and music.