Larry Bonfante has held executive leadership positions for 35 years in the Financial, Pharmaceutical, Not for Profit, Consulting, and Sports and Entertainment industries. He has received numerous industry accolades including being named as one of CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 and Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders. Larry is the founder of CIO Bench Coach, LLC an industry leading executive coaching practice and the author of the books “Lessons in IT Transformation” and "Reflections of an Executive Coach" which are available on Amazon.com. Larry has served as a mentor and executive coach for over 350 executives across every industry vertical for world class companies like Toyota, Prudential, La Z Boy, Pfizer and Kaiser Permanent and has delivered leadership and sales workshops for thousands of executives for industry leaders such as Amazon, Salesforce, Cisco Systems and Unisys. Larry has been a guest lecturer for the Masters’ Degree programs at Columbia University, NYU, and Polytechnic Institute and has delivered keynote presentations at major industry conferences on four continents.