Cutting across a variety of industries and the public sector, with a significant technology pedigree, CNBC's Technology Executive Council offers perspective on the most pressing issues facing the industry. This is the list of the founding members of the Technology Executive Council.  For a full list of current TEC members, please visit www.cnbccouncils.com/tec.
Technology Executive Council Founding Members

Joseph Mazzarella, Orangetheory Fitness

Joseph Mazzarella, Chief Technology Officer Orangetheory Fitness.
Orangetheory Fitness

Joseph is responsible for leveraging advanced technological innovations to enhance the Orangetheory Fitness experience, for customers and franchisees. In his role as CTO, he is responsible for a wide-ranging portfolio of IT initiatives, such as creating or enhancing in-studio and mobile applications, as well as the company's growing use of wearable technologies.

Coming from a systems development, design and implementation background, Joseph has more than 13 years of experiencing in delivering strategic business and IT services across such industries as finance, retail, logistics and telecommunications. Most recently, as CTO of Brightstar Corp., he specialized in global platform service creation and delivery for its supply chain, device management, ecommerce and retail services, among others.

Joseph holds a bachelor's degree in business information systems and information technology from Victoria University.