Ingo Elfering, 2010 Honoree
- Title
- Vice president, IT strategy
- Employer
- GlaxoSmithKline PLC
- Location
- Newtown Square,, Pa.
- First job:
- "I founded my own health care software company at age 18."
- Most valuable career advice:
- "Listen deeply."
- Would you advise young people to pursue an IT career?
- "Yes, but decide early on if you are in that because of technology (then join a tech company) or in it to use it for something (then join a business and get educated about that business and technology)."
- If I were not in this business, I would probably be...
- "a consultant."
- Leadership philosophy in a nutshell:
- "Understand what needs to be done, figure out a way to get people to want to be there, and then create the environment in which they can achieve the goal."
- Passion outside of work:
- Cooking
- What's in your MP3 or CD player right now?
- Les Nubians
- A recent great read:
- How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman