Dennis Smith, First Vice President, The Bank of New York Mellon
After completing college in 1983 (University of Pittsburgh, MBA with an emphasis in M.I.S.; and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Dayton), Dennis joined IBM as a systems engineer working in the financial services industry. In the late 1980s, he was one of the original members of a national telecommunications practice for Ernst & Whiney (later Ernst & Young). Among the major initiatives that he was engaged were integration of the telecommunications facilities of Northwest Orient and Republic Airlines (which became Northwest Airlines) and deployment of the New York State Lottery network. In the early 1990s, Dennis joined the Travelers where his team introduced routers into the infrastructure (one of the first large organizations to route SNA traffic). In 1994, Dennis joined Mellon Financial, and for 12 years led the architecture and design of the Mellon network. In 2006, Dennis assumed the duties of manager of the Advanced Engineering group which was tasked with introducing new infrastructure technology and maintaining the product roadmaps. In 2007, Dennis assumed these same duties for the merged company, The Bank of New York Mellon.

Dennis has been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University for over 10 years on various technology topics. In the mid 1990s, he conducted a set of classes at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been quoted and/or featured in the past few years in industry publications (e.g., Computer World and Network World).