Fortium stands as the world’s largest and fastest-growing provider of technology leadership services, specializing in CIO, CTO and CISO roles. With a team of elite Partners, Fortium excels in managing clients' strategic technology use and investments, delivering superior business outcomes beyond traditional models. Fortium serves organizations of all sizes and industries through innovative interim, fractional, and subscription roles, offering advisory services for strategic initiatives with immediate engagement and simple terms. These tailored solutions are designed to drive success in an ever-evolving market.Business-minded and visionary IT Executive with experience building cohesive strategies, blended across IT and business operations to deliver significant value. Creates strategic visions and influence C-Suite Executives in driving overall direction of companies. Fosters change by challenging the status quo, effectively communicating across cross-functional business partners within complex environments to provide technology infrastructure, application development, IT solutions, and champions data-driven decision making.

Avasant Distinguished Fellows are a world-class team of experts and leaders, comprised of the top minds within the technology world. The group includes former and current CXOs, CIOs, and other senior technology executives who bring business value to Avasant and its clients.

Director on Board of Directors

Led enterprise technology strategy and operations for all 3 business lines ($3B revenue; $100B assets under management; Life Insurance, Retirement Services, Employee Benefits) with an 850-member IT organization and a $200M operating and project budget. Reported to CFO with strong dotted line to CEO. Seven VP direct reports.• Secured approval of CEO and executive team on long-term IT strategy, goals, budget, and vendor relationships, including an annual average of 10 large-scale IT initiatives and a 40% budget increase.• Presented all technology initiatives and status to the board of directors quarterly for all IT disciplines including cybersecurity, data, digital, cloud, and applications, with bottom-line business impact results. • Drove key improvements in implementation of secure and scalable infrastructure, advancing application development, portfolio and project management, enterprise architecture, and business intelligence. • Improved IT governance creating technology strategies and standards. Key contributor to the company’s strategy and planning process. • Met compliance and standards areas of focus within day-to-day operations: ITIL, HIPPA, NIST, and SOC1/2. • Received 2021 CIO of the Year Award - Indianapolis Business Journal.

Vice President, Business Relationship Management and Enterprise Architecture (2019) Led enterprise architecture, business relationship management, business analysis, IT planning and coordination functions. Drove strategic partnering and relationship management between IT and business units / shared service functions and advanced technology solutions to enable key business initiatives.• Shaped business demand for IT services, acting as business stakeholder and priority advocate. • Advised line-of-business leaders on exploiting emerging technologies and capabilities.• Prioritized and directed an innovative technology portfolio including the architecture, development, planning, and delivery of complex projects.• Created functional technology strategies and operational roadmaps aligned with business strategy.

Led IT infrastructure and application support areas for enterprise with a 250+ member organization and a $60M operating budget.• Spearheaded dual geographically diverse data center solution for disaster recovery. Successful (99%+) DR tests for 5 consecutive years.• Directed teams in 630+ business applications, 180+ SaaS solutions, websites, and cloud, consistently exceeding SLA and availability.• Led strategic sourcing of global partner support contracts.• Co-led IT re-organization, shifting IT to a plan/build/run delivery model. • Implemented ITIL service management framework.

Led Interactive Intelligence’s Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS) Cloud for worldwide customers with 14 global data centers in NA/LA/EMEA/APAC at 99.999% system availability, consistently exceeding SLA, with a 100+ member engineering organization, and budgets surpassing $100M.Industry: Technology, Contact Center, Cloud Application, Software as a Service

Served as primary delivery executive to deliver infrastructure managed service to global Fortune 100/500 clients. Services inclusive of end user support, network, storage, mainframe, data centers, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and mid-range services. Annual budgets of $50M+ and 300+ FTE associates. Interfaced with client CIO, and staff. Held other leadership roles in service delivery and technical engineering.Clients: DuPont, Avaya, Hitachi, Philips Medical, GE Capital, RCIServed as Delivery Executive from 2009 thru 2013Served in other roles as Service Delivery Management, Technology Leader, IT engineering from 1999 to 2009.