About Us
Kee Murray CEO/Trusted IT Advisor
Kee is the founder of Cloudtivity Consulting Services and is the Managing Partner from the firm’s inception in 2019.
Kee’s IT career spans over 30 years and he has held various executive positions in Banking, Financial Services, Hospitality and in Global Solution Delivery verticals.
Kee started his career as a developer managing critical, high availability front end financial applications for companies such as Harris Bank/BMO and Intuit Service’s online Banking and BillPay. He advanced his career to executive leadership at CheckFree/Fiserv, InterContinental Hotels and Xerox where he was the CIO of Global Financial Services with offices in the Americas, France, India, Spain and other countries. Data Center and infrastructure, IT transformation and modernization, program management, automation, quality assurance were all areas of expertise during the course of his career. Kee was an early adopter of standardizing data center infrastructure creating a system of record for quick, repeatable deployment leading to mainstream cloud adoption.
Paul Millard Principal/Trusted IT Advisor
Paul is a visionary leader with over 30 years senior IT executive experience in Airline Transportation, Financial Services, Technology, and E-commerce, transforming some of the world’s most demanding and complex IT Environments. Paul led global solutions development with NetApp Inc. focusing on hybrid cloud and IT transformation strategies with NetApp’s leading Global Systems Integrator (GSI). Prior to NetApp Paul was VP of IT at Autotrader.com (Cox Automotive), streamlining operations and improving website performance for Autotrader’s14 million unique visitors, private sellers and 20,000 auto dealerships.
As SVP of IT CheckFree (Fiserv) Paul initiated and led a major IT transformation to significantly increase scale, while reducing transaction costs and improving quality for CheckFree’s on-line banking clients achieving USAA’s coveted quality award. At Delta Air Lines, as VP of IT Engineering, Paul led a major overhaul of Delta’s Global IT infrastructure enabling significant business improvements at all major airports, delta.com and Delta’s global reservations centers. Paul served on the Board’s of SITA and the SITA Foundation, and as Chairman of the Airline Transportation Association (ATA) sub-committee on Airport Technology.
Caroline Hotmer Principal/Trusted IT Advisor/Trusted Talent Placement Advisor
Throughout her 25-year career, Caroline has held numerous leadership positions, playing a key role in the success and expansion of several startup organizations.
Caroline is recognized as an expert in the IT Talent sector, providing support to Fortune 500 companies in various industries including Banking, Technology, HealthCare, Transportation, and Finance.
In 2004, Caroline was awarded the Dorothy B. Brothers Scholarship by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) to further her professional development within the industry.
Linda Mcconkey Principal/Trusted IT Advisor
Linda has over 20 years experience in consulting, covering the Financial Services, Healthcare, Consumer Products, Media and Technology industries. Her experience is across Operations, IT Infrastructure and Data Centers, Dev, QA, Big Data, Product Development, Solution Selection and Implementation, IT Governance and IT Audit and Complex Program Management.
Linda has served as an IT Advisory and Technology Services Principal at KPMG and Managing Director at Tatum, O’Keefe and EIG Advisory and has extensive experience working with clients to deliver strategic technology solutions in North America, LATAM and EMEA.
Curt Smith Principal/Trusted IT Advisor
Curt’s career spans 30 years in financial services, hospitality, insurance and technology industries with experience in operations and IT Infrastructure, architecture, quality assurance, application development and data warehousing. Most recently, Curt served as SVP & Chief Technology Officer at ManuLife/John Hancock where he was responsible for the overall technology infrastructure including architecture, as well as delivering new technologies for ManuLife customers.
Previously Curt served as Chief Technology Officer at both InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and E*Trade Financial. Curt has extensive experience in developing and delivering on global data center, infrastructure, call center and collaboration strategies. Curt has experience in delivering the solutions in all corners of the world including North America, China, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. During his tenure, E*TRADE won the prestigious Keynote Award four consecutive years for being the most reliable and fastest Online Brokerage Website in the industry.