Keynote Speaker
Donald Haile
Don Haile is senior vice president and Site General Manager for the North Carolina facilities of Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm. Mr. Haile is the senior executive on site for Fidelity’s North Carolina organization, which currently provides transactional support to Fidelity Employer Services Company (FESCo).
Mr. Haile is also venture partner in Fidelity Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments. Prior to assuming his current position in October 2005, Mr. Haile was Fidelity Investments’ Chief Information Officer, responsible for computer operations, the global communications networks and enterprise-wide applications support and development. In that position reported to Fidelity’s Chairman, Edward C. Johnson until October, 2005. Mr. Haile joined Fidelity in 1998 as executive vice president of Enterprise Solutions responsible for the worldwide development and maintenance of infrastructure and application products that support the processing needs of Fidelity.
Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Haile spent 34 years with IBM, where he held various executive positions in hardware and software development, with responsibilities for telecommunications, systems management and IBM operating systems.
Mr. Haile received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from St. Vincent College in 1963 and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Penn State University in 1964.