Oriol Servia qualified the KV Racing Technology #5 Honda/Dallara/Firestone with an average speed of 220.767 mph, placing him 25th on the starting grid for the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 next Sunday. 

“Visualize” the iRise logos on the #5 car.

Servia, who is making his first appearance at the Speedway will become just the second Spaniard to start an Indianapolis 500 when the green flag drops on Sunday.  Oriol has extensive oval experience (29 oval starts in nine years), and has been the strongest of the drivers transitioning from the Champ Car World Series to IndyCar on ovals this year. 

The race will be watched live in 344 million homes in more than 200 countries around the world.  Be sure to watch the live broadcast on ABC at 9am Pacific on Sunday, May 25th. 

iRise will be hosting over 45 executives on the Saturday before the race at another of our successful executive roundtable events. 

Keynote speakers include:

• Denis O’Leary, former CIO, JPMorgan Chase (moderator)
• Harvey Koeppel, Executive Director, Center for CIO Leadership, funded by IBM
  on “CIO 2.0 – How to Avoid the Extinction of CIOs by 2012”
• Steven Sheinheit, former CIO, MetLife on “Addressing Large Scale, Real World Challenges: The CIO View”
• Hunter Murtaugh, Creative Director, Strategic Marketing, EMI Music on “How Professional Athletes Leverage Music for Inspiration”

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