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For someone with a truly utilitarian approach to business technology for himself and his company, Mike Connly, CIO of The St. Paul Companies, has some ...

By G. Barry Klein,CPCU,CLU | Updated on October 31, 2002

For someone with a truly utilitarian approach to business technology for himself and his company, Mike Connly, CIO of The St. Paul Companies, has some interesting, perhaps even unexpected, recreational gadgets.

Connly is a licensed ham radio operator, and like other operators, he builds a lot of his own equipment. He says doing things like that helps him understand the electronics underpinnings of technology at a much deeper level. I havent gone to the extreme of putting in my own tower, he says, but admits he does have a smaller antenna discreetly set up in his yard. He also built a hi-fi pre-amplifier out of old computer vacuum tubes.

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