Austin Adams has seen almost ninety mergers in his three-decade IT leadership career in financial services. But in his new role as CIO of JPMorgan Chase, he’s a key player in the granddaddy of all bank mergers—the integration of Bank One, where he was previously CIO, into a new entity with over $1 trillion in assets and a $7 billion IT budget. Here’s what Austin told us about leadership, mergers, competitive advantage, and what gets him up in the morning.

Since becoming CIO of Kaiser in 2002, Cliff Dodd has helped launch a revolution in how the nation's largest HMO delivers healthcare. Cliff persuaded Kaiser to embark on a $4 billion-plus investment in digitizing the entire delivery process, including all medical records. We found Cliff to be not only a passionate advocate for bringing best practices to healthcare, but also candid and insightful about what it takes to get an organization like Kaiser to make transformational changes.