PrestonW Profile

Preston Williams III is Senior Partner & CIO at GBC® Global Services. He is a pioneer with 20+ years of Big 4, Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial experience. That experience includes Senior Auditor with Price Waterhouse (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Controller for Lynn-Phill, IT Consultant with McGladrey & Pullen and Andersen Consulting (Accenture) as well as Project Executive at IBM Global Services. Mr. Williams also worked as the first Product Manager for Global Data Collection with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and the first Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Langston University. From 2002 to 2004, Preston Williams served as the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Managing Partner at GBC®. Incorporated in Delaware, USA; the firm operates in Liberia, Kenya, Uganda and the United States. Preston has successfully implemented sound, reliable, dynamic, scalable and robust IT systems integration and financial management solutions in North America, Asia Pacific (APAC), Latin America (LATAM), Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Mr. Williams is former Technology Committee Chairman of the Oklahoma State Council on Information Technology (CoIT) and a former member of the Innovative Technology Advisory Council of Oklahoma (InnoTech). He is a member of the American Business Network (ABN), the EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group, the Carolina Information Technology Professionals Group (CITPG) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum of Cambridge. He is also a member of the International Entrepreneurs Club, the International Technology Channels Association (ITCA), Tech Republic and the Global CIO Think Tank. Preston Williams III is Chairman of the GBC Board of Directors, a recipient of the IBM Global Services Leadership Award and a member of the Internet Evolution Executive Clan. SPECIALTIES: • Entrepreneur - Visionary Leader • Strategic Alliances & Partnerships • Corporate Identity • Innovative Products and Services Development • Sales, Marketing & Business Planning • Program/Project Management • Staff Management & Team Building • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) • Budgeting & Cost Control (P&L) • IT Architecture & Service Delivery • Systems Integration & Deployment • Information Technology System Management (ITSM) • Global Market Expansion

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