BIOGRAPHY
Glenn D. Bonner
Senior Vice President
Chief Information Officer
MGM MIRAGE
Glenn Bonner is the
former Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of MGM
MIRAGE. Bonner joined MGM MIRAGE in 1997, and has more than 25 years of
experience in management and business technology. Bonner led MGM MIRAGE's corporate Management Information Systems group for nearly ten
years, which encompassed all MGM MIRAGE technology and systems,
supporting over 70,000 employees in 24 locations.
As CIO, he was
responsible for alignment and execution of the information technology
function with the company’s longer-term business strategy. Under
Bonner’s leadership, MGM MIRAGE gained industry-wide recognition for
their technology achievements and innovations. CIO Magazine recognized
Bonner as one of the top 100 Chief Information Officers in 1999. MGM
Mirage was also ranked as high as 68th by Information Week Magazine in
the “Information Week 500” annual ranking of IS organizations in
America.
Before his appointment
as the company's first CIO, Bonner led the hospitality industry
consulting initiative for Microsoft Corporation. As the Managing
Consultant, Bonner headed up the development of Hilton Hotels’ “System
21”, the core technology used to manage the guest experience at Hilton
hotels world-wide. Previously, Bonner was employed at Intergraph
Corporation as a product manager where he was responsible for all
computer-aided manufacturing applications.
Bonner is the past Chairman
of the UNLV MIS Department Executive Advisory Board, a past board member
of Auburn University's College of Business Advisory Board and a founding
member of the Board of Directors for the Hotel Technology Next
Generation organization. He is an active director in two local Las
Vegas companies; 1Velocity a wireless networking company and Skywire
Media a messaging applications provider. He is a noted speaker on
technology industry topics such as Storage Area Networks (SAN) and
Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
Bonner received a bachelor's degree from Auburn University in Industrial
Management. Bonner is married and is the father of four children, is a
bicyclist, a motorcyclist, an avid fly-fisherman and enjoys golf. |
