30+ years of experience in building solutions within the banking, high tech and consumer products industries - managing the design and implementation of global enterprise planning and financial systems, settlement systems, sales and marketing and cross platform collaboration solutions. Prior to Kitchen Brains, Jay was the CEO and founder of BLUE Technologies. Jay was also the co-founder and Managing Director of Storm Networks, a revolutionary solution for the global loan market. Prior to Storm, Mr. Katz served 3 years as the CIO of ClearPar, LLC, the leading settlement platform of the US loan market. Prior to ClearPar, Jay served as an Associate Partner and Managing Consultant with IBM’s Business Consulting Services (formerly known as the Management Consulting Services group of PricewaterhouseCoopers). While employed by IBM, Jay was recognized as one of IBM’s leading project managers with extensive experience in managing large, complex and global SAP implementations. Jay’s strong project management skills are complemented by his process improvement expertise and deep knowledge across various industries. In addition, Jay provided thought leadership within the areas of Project Management and Methodologies, participating as a global subject matter expert to IBM’s internal methods group responsible for method development, education and deployment.Jay received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Columbia UniversitySpecialties: SAP, Program and Project Management, Corporate Loan Market, Loan Settlement, Process Re-engineering, Systems Integration