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Dean Lane, a Principal in The Office of the CIO, has almost 30 years of hands on experience in the IT industry, having been a CIO at four different companies: Allied-Signal, Morton-Thiokol, Plantronics, and Masters Institute of Technology. Additionally, he held the Senior IT Director position at Symantec, and was the Corporate Director of Materials for Allied-Signal. Mr. Lane has also been a consultant for Ernst & Young, AT&T and the Gartner Group. His experience is global and as found on the internet, he is considered an expert on outsourcing/offshoring. Mr. Lane has served as the CEO for VariTRAK Inc., a company that provides compliance software. He has completed many interim CIO and mentoring assignments.
Mr. Lane obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of California (UCLA) and his MBA from National University. He serves on the advisory boards for Search CIO, Tech Republic, and SFSU's Center for Electronic Business, was a co-founder of the Consortium of Information Systems Executives, a member of Executive World, the Project Management Institute, APICS, the CIO Collective, Silicon Valley's Community of Practice and is Past President of SIM's Silicon Valley Chapter. His first book, CIO Wisdom, is a Prentice Hall Best Seller and a sequel, CIO Perspectives was published by Kendall-Hunt. Mr. Lane speaks internationally, most recently the Keynote for the Adam Smith Society in Moscow, and during a Hi Tech Economic Mission to Israel, he consulted with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barach. Mr. Lane is a highly decorated US Naval Officer.
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DEAN LANE