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Steve is the founder of the MIT CIO Summit and the MIT CIO Symposium, which attract hundreds of IT leaders to MIT every year for two days of knowledge sharing.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

People -- STEPHEN C. BUCKLEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Stephen C. Buckley


Steve Buckley has over 20 years experience in Information Technology, Marketing, Communications and Publishing in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

An MIT employee since 1989, he is currently Executive Director of the MIT Kerberos Consortium. The mission of the Consortium is to establish Kerberos as the universal authentication platform for the world's computer networks.

Previously he held dual appointments as Associate Director of the Center for Digital Business and the Center for Collective Intelligence. He is the founder of the MIT CIO Summit and the MIT CIO Symposium, which attract hundreds of IT leaders to MIT every year for two days of knowledge sharing.

He has been a consultant and advisor to numerous large organizations, such as PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Burroughs Wellcome and McKinsey and Company. In addition, while taking a break from MIT, he has been one of the first ten employees of three start-up organizations, including the Society for Organizational Learning and The Cambridge Innovation Center.

With Prof. Edgar Schein, he founded "Reflections" magazine, and edited the book "Knowledge Management", both published by MIT Press. He currently writes a quarterly column in CIO Digest Magazine, and previously wrote a weekly technology column in the Boston Globe's "DigitalMass" section from 1999-2000. Steve has also been quoted in numerous publications, including Wired, InformationWeek, The Boston Globe, Technology Review and Businessweek.

He graduated with a degree in English Literature from Clark University in 1986. Steve is an avid adventure sailor and skier, serves on the Board of Directors of the Cottage Park Yacht Club, and lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts with his wife, Claire and their two sons, David, and Michael.