Eric Dirst

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President DeKonsultere LLC / Chief Tech Advisor Align Capital Partners / CIO Renew / Member University Club of Chicago @ DeKonsultere LLC
Eric Dirst's Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States, United States
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About Eric Dirst

President of DeKonsultere LLC, providing CIO/COO/Board level services to small/mid-size companies & portfolios of Private Equity firms. Chief Technology Advisor at Align Capital Partners. Fractional CIO at Renew LLC and QDPP&E Inc, and CIO Advisor for EXIGENT.Previously President of Global Shared Operations for NYSE:ATGE, leading shared operations centers in Chicago, New Jersey, and Campinas/Fortaleza Brazil; responsible for $480M revenue annually. I also previously was CIO for NYSE:ATGE, and Global CIO for SIRVA Inc when they were Fortune 500 organization before going private (Allied Van Lines, SIRVA Relocation/Mortgage, North American Van Lines, Pickfords, etc.).Current Board memberships include Brent Sopel Dyslexia Foundation Charity, PeerSpot Advisory Board, and ThingLogix Board of Advisors. Former Board memberships include Governing Board of Carrington College (Finance Committee), DocuSign Advisory Board, Academic Quality Committee of the NYSE:ATGE Board of Directors, Salesforce.com Advisory Board, Hewlett-Packard (HP) Advisory Board, Integrated Education Solutions LLC Board of Directors, and Chicago COO Forum Steering Committee.For over 15 years I was in CIO/CTO roles at two publicly traded organizations, including a Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 company, and at a venture funded startup. During this time, I led teams orchestrating two IT turnarounds, developed and implemented cloud strategies/migrations, implemented new SFA/ERP platforms globally, and coached personnel to their next career objective (2 became CEO's, 3 became CIO's, 1 became CFO).For over 9 years I was in management consulting organizations, servicing industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, state/local government, power utilities, insurance, and online retailing. Travel was my middle name.Passions include all things technology, mentoring business leaders, playing ice hockey, watching the Chicago Blackhawks, hiking/mountain climbing, boating on Lake Michigan, traveling and enjoying downtown Chicago with my wife, and skiing or snowshoeing in the mountains.

Eric Dirst's Current Company Details
DeKonsultere LLC

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President DeKonsultere LLC / Chief Tech Advisor Align Capital Partners / CIO Renew / Member University Club of Chicago
Eric Dirst Work Experience Details
  • Dekonsultere Llc
    President, Dekonsultere Llc
    Dekonsultere Llc Feb 2018 - Present
    Lemont, Il, Us
    Founder and President of DeKonsultere LLC offering C-Level Technology & Strategy Leadership services, Due Diligence services, Salesforce Implementation/Customization services, AWS Development Services, and Board of Director/Advisory services to help grow and scale your business operations while developing and delivering your digital transformation business strategy. These services are available to small to mid-size companies and portfolio companies at Private Equity and Venture Capital organizations.
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  • Align Capital Partners
    Chief Technology Advisor
    Align Capital Partners Sep 2018 - Present
    Shaker Heights, Ohio, Us
    Align Capital Partners is a ~$1BB, growth-oriented private equity firm with a mission to be the best private equity partner by aligning with ambitious management teams to drive outsized results, creating a positive impact for all stakeholders. We bring best in class deal execution to the lower middle market with a core focus on B2B companies. I provide CIO/CTO strategy, due diligence, and cyber security level services to a number of the Align portfolio companies who are leveraging technology for growth and differentiation in the marketplace.
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  • Peerspot (Formerly It Central Station)
    Advisory Board Member
    Peerspot (Formerly It Central Station) Sep 2012 - Present
    New York, Ny, Us
    I am currently honored to be an Advisory Board Member for IT Central Station, the Yelp of Enterprise Technology (www.itcentralstation.com).
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  • Thinglogix, Inc
    Investor And Advisory Board Member
    Thinglogix, Inc Jan 2017 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    ThingLogix offers a product called Foundry, which provides a low-code cloud application layer (PaaS) for your Serverless solutions or Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions, allowing you to configure (clicks not code) and quickly build rules, workflows, machine learning, reporting/dashboards, event-based logix, and integrations with back-office applications such as ERP, SFA, CRM. Foundry is a low-code Serverless Application Development platform, built on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS), allowing limitless scalability. ThingLogix has been designated by Amazon as a top tier AWS Technology Partner, AWS Public Sector Partner, and IoT Competency Partner. Founded in 2014 as a spinoff from 2lemetry who was acquired by Amazon Web Services.
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  • Sopel Foundation For Dyslexia
    Board Member And Coo
    Sopel Foundation For Dyslexia Aug 2017 - Present
    Clarendon Hills, Illinois, Us
    The Sopel Foundation for Dyslexia is a 501(c)3 charity dedicated to providing financial and educational assistance to help students with dyslexia fulfill their potential through early detection and intervention.
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  • Carrington College California-Sacramento
    Governing Board Member, Finance Committee Member
    Carrington College California-Sacramento Jan 2017 - Dec 2024
    Sacramento, California, Us
    Carrington College is the starting point for health care, trade and industrial careers. Their focus is to help change your life for the better through educational certificates, associate degrees, and baccalaureate degrees. Carrington operates 16 campuses in 7 states.
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  • Docusign
    Advisory Board Member
    Docusign Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Probably the most impressive Advisory Board in existence in the Tech World...thanks to Keith Krach and team for bringing us all together.
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  • Adtalem Global Education
    President, Global Shared Operations
    Adtalem Global Education Feb 2013 - Jan 2018
    Chicago, Illinois, Us
    I was privileged to run global shared services/operations for NYSE:ATGE ($1.8BB revenue) as well as managing one of the largest online education operations in the world, while leading geographic centers of excellence in Chicago, New Jersey, Campinas Brazil, and Fortaleza Brazil. During my tenure I led centralized admissions, student finance and student advising, ran an inside sales/service call center for our eCommerce professional education divisions, led enterprise R&D, led various functions such as supply management, security, accounts receivable and credit/collections, and led the online product development group, all while also incubating a new P&L division providing online program management services to external universities. I also co-led operational excellence initiatives with CAO/CFO leading to >$150M of efficiencies, and co-led a Global organizational re-design resulting in a new Operating Model for the organization. My teams were directly responsible for ~$480MM of annual revenue goals.
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  • Dvg
    Cio, Svp
    Dvg May 2008 - Jun 2013
    Chicago, Illinois, Us
    I was originally brought on to lead a turnaround and digital transformation of global IT at DVG. Our digital transformation included developing a cloud strategy and migrating many systems to the cloud, launching solutions to deliver our digital marketing strategy, implementing a modern data center and NOC, moving to appdev models that involved 6+ releases per year, replacing core ERP/CRM systems with modern solutions globally ($110M Program), building and implementing the company's first data warehouse and reporting/analytics portal, and implementing digital solutions such as DocuSign and digital imaging to remove all paper. I was also able to build a quality global IT organization, staff our first R&D organization, improve information security & compliance, and integrate 7+ acquisitions domestically and internationally. I am also proud that I was able to hire and groom my eventual successor as CIO.
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  • Sirva
    Cio
    Sirva Sep 2001 - May 2008
    Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, Us
    SIRVA owned many brands including SIRVA Relocation, SIRVA Mortgage, Allied Van Lines, North American Van Lines, Pickfords, et al. SIRVA was a public Fortune 500 company in 2006, before recapitalizing and going private in 2008. I'm most proud of the following accomplishments: digitally transforming a legacy industry with web based solutions for moving agents, moving customers, and corporate relocation customers; implementing modern and agile cloud systems for our internal colleagues providing customer service; building a word class security environment that passed numerous Industry & Customer audits; successfully integrating 3 acquisitions in 12 months onto all new platforms in the USA, and then doing the same with multiple acquisitions in Europe; repairing and strengthening the relationships with the leadership at hundreds of agency affiliates for the moving business; and, finally, building a high performance IT and sales support team to support our Corporate Relocation and Mortgage business units.
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  • Iq4Hire
    Cto
    Iq4Hire Jan 1999 - Aug 2001
    CTO for an innovative online procurement platform for complex software and technology purchases such as ERP, CRM, e-commerce, et al. I built the entire IT team from the ground up, and we built and released 4 versions of the platform in the first year, while winning online website awards. After 9/11 we shutdown the company and sold off what assets we could.
  • Covansys
    Vp Of E-Business
    Covansys 1996 - 1999
    In
    VP of the E-Business practice. Clients included eSurance.com, Allied Van Lines, inPurchase.com, Motorola SPS, Lands End, Pets.com, et al. Covansys was subsequently purchased by CSC.
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  • Bsg
    Director
    Bsg 1991 - 1996
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za
    Company purchased by Covansys. I primarily worked in the Pharmaceutical industry as a project manager implementing custom systems for such processes as Toxicology program management at Eli Lilly, electronic NDA submissions at Abbott Labs with Documentum, and global clinical management at Zeneca Pharmaceuticals. I was eventually promoted to Director of the e-Business practice.
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  • Kpmg
    Senior Consultant
    Kpmg Aug 1989 - Sep 1991
    Toronto, On, Ca
    I was responsible as technical team lead on numerous government projects implementing advanced purchasing applications (ADPICS) or financial systems (FAMIS) on both the IBM mainframe and DEC mini platforms. Our clients included state and large municipal government entities.
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  • Kendall County
    Head Of Information Technology
    Kendall County Jan 1986 - Jul 1989
    Us
    I built and managed the Information Technology department for Kendall County, Illinois. At the time, this included various department bespoke systems, a GIS platform, PC management, network management, and outsourced relationships for county back-office mainframe systems operated by Kane County on behalf of Kendall County.
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Eric Dirst Skills

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Eric Dirst Education Details

  • Northern Illinois University
    Northern Illinois University
    Operations Management
  • Northern Illinois University
    Northern Illinois University
    Computer Science

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