Aaron Gette
CIO, The Bay Club Company
A proven thought leader and seasoned IT professional with over 15 years of experience. Aaron has worked with Startups and Fortune 500 companies in the Bay Area, delivering CIO and CTO level leadership. His ability to build and manage high functioning teams has led to the successful growth of companies, converting traditional IT infrastructure into revenue generating powerhouses. A relationships manager with a keen instinct for leveraging technology talent. He has an impeccable track record of successful deployments across many verticals. As a strategic planner with a clear understanding of the cloud, he provided the Bay Club Technology Play Book to transition the IT infrastructure to a best in class platform. He is effectively redefining the culture of IT and delivering a business minded IT team to help grow the company into new mass affluent markets.
Latest from Aaron Gette
If you’re an avid fan of HBO's Silicon Valley, as I am, you may have recently downloaded the iOS app “Not Hotdog,” that was introduced on the show and developed in real life using real AI, in a ruse of ingenious marketing. The app is an image analyzing application leveraging Google's open-source TensorFlow to answer the age old question,...
How has your IT operating model in Cloud changed during the last five years?
Cloud computing has unburdened businesses from the traditional IT business model. The traditional IT operating model was straightforward. Businesses hired IT professionals to manage the computer hardware and software assets. The IT staff had to forecast business needs for the next 3 to 5...
Role of CIOs
The role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) was formed in the early 1980s, now almost 40 years in the making the responsibilities of the CIO have profoundly transformed. The original CIO operated as senior executive in the enterprise with responsibilities that included information technology and systems that supported business goals. Today’s...
Many enterprises consider IoT strategic to their future, but most still take a disjointed approach to IoT security. The state of adoption varies widely among industries with manufacturing companies investing the most in IoT, while retail and financial services are pushing the boundaries. While governments, healthcare, and utilities are moving much slower, due in part to...
I am not a big fan of the word cloud computing, but the idea of shared resources and services in a pay as you consume model is intrinsic to growth and innovation in every business today. Cloud computing literally opened up the processing power that only enterprises had before, and not just to a young bootstrapping startup, but also to long time brick and mortar...
As with anything other than an optional interaction layer, JavaScript is the way forward for the web and there is some historical precedent for that. JavaScript gives us the ability to extend the web beyond where it currently is, and that is what the extensible Web Manifesto developers are looking to do. The web has to be able to compete with native apps and until we...
With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming more a part of our everyday lives, almost everything is connected and intelligent. We have seen the transformation of innovative ideas from 2015 into mainstays of our everyday lives. The driving force behind this is an ever growing smarter more aware IoT landscape. Not only are the devices less expensive and readily available,...
With most companies redefining their brand with software, whether it’s delivering services or building products, how does an IT leader manage the ever-growing application lifecycle while keeping the needs of the business in focus? Is it best to build a team in house to drive both innovation and build consolidated effective applications or do you leverage the...
The decisive move of Internet of Things (IoT) from the manufacturing and supply chains into the consumer market has to have every technology leader wondering how best to tackle the real value of IoT and effectively integrate it into their business. There are more than a few notable paradigm shifts in the technology industry. From DOS operating systems to Windows, the...
The scripting language, buoyed by the popularity of Libraries such as jQuery and Frameworks like AngularJS and Node. JS, has seen an explosion of popularity over the last few years. Since 2013, the GitHub code repository has hosted more JavaScript projects than any other language. A lot of this success can be attributed to the low learning curve and ease of use; the...
Challenges and Expectations:
Fitness traditionally under invests in technology and although we are transitioning to a hospitality company, finding real value in embracing the enterprise is a challenge. We’ve been able to deliver great results, phasing in a vision that embraces public cloud, converged infrastructure and outsourced expertise. The next big...
