CFIT chairman rings opening bell on NYSE Euronext.

• Position: FEI TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

Members of Financial Executive International's Committee on Finance and Information Technology (CFIT) enjoyed an eventful day at NYSE Euronext in New York on June 5, beginning with breakfast in the Executive Board Room.

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At 9 a.m., the committee moved to the trading floor where CFIT Chairman Bob Shultz and FEI President and CEO Marie Hollein rang the opening bell at 9:30 a.m.

Following the opening, the group toured the trading floor with a stop at the Hewlett-Packard Co. booth. (Shultz is vice president of Internal Audit at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company.) The committee members then held their quarterly meeting and lunched back in the boardroom.

From left to right in photo above: Gary Petrangelo, CFO Japs-Olson Co.; Mahesh Shetty, CFO and COO, Encore Enterprises Inc.; Taylor Hawes, CFO Intellectual Property & Licensing, Microsoft Corp.; Peggy Yocher, PMO liaison, United Technologies Corp.; Garry Lowenthal, EVP and CFO, Pranah Storage Technologies; Arun Kumar, principal partner, KPMG; Bob Shultz...