As CIO and and CISO for AMERICAN SYSTEMS, Mr. Neely leads the overall vision, planning, and management of all technology, security and information management-related resources throughout the enterprise. Mr. Neely began his career at AMERICAN SYSTEMS in 1996, and has been instrumental in the company’s strategic and operational growth, growth… supporting thousands of users distributed at hundreds of locations globally. With over twenty years of hands-on experience and a background of intense formal education, Mr. Neely effectively fuses the business and the technology worlds. Mr. Neely’s acute business sense comes from a decade as a “C" level executive in a progressive technology organization, building on the knowledge and insight gained as an alumnus of the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania) and through executive certifications in Management & Leadership and Strategy & Innovation earned at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. On the technical side, Mr. Neely has an engineering background and 20 years of real-world technology experience, building on his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Virginia Tech, his Masters in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon’s nationally top-ranked IT Program (graduating summa cum laude), his CIO Certification from CMU and the Federal CIO Council, and his Chief Information Security Officer (CISO/CSO) Certification from Carnegie Mellon’s Cyber Security Lab (Cylab).Mr. Neely was selected as an InformationWeek 500 winner for Digital Business Leaders & Innovative Users of Technology – coming in at #120, ahead of Microsoft #142, Cisco #152, EMC #161, SAIC #164, SAP #182, and MITRE #212.CISO of the Year; Selected as one of ExecutiveBiz’s Top 10 CTOs; certified in Lean Six Sigma, ITIL, & CMMI; ISO 9001 and 27001 certs; Fellow of the Wharton School of Business, member of ND-ISAC, DIB-CS, IEEE and TED.