Brian Neely Email Address

Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer and CISO

Founded in 1975, AMERICAN SYSTEMS is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the United States, with approximately 1,300 employees nationwide. Based in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Chantilly, Va., the company provides test & evaluation, systems engineering, technical and managed services to government customers.

As CIO and CTO for AMERICAN SYSTEMS, Mr. Neely leads the overall vision, planning, and management of all technology, security and information management-related resources throughout the enterprise. Mr. Neely began his career at AMERICAN SYSTEMS in 1996, and has been instrumental in the company’s strategic and operational growth, growth… supporting thousands of users distributed at hundreds of locations globally. With over twenty years of hands-on experience and a background of intense formal education, Mr. Neely effectively fuses the business and the technology worlds. On the business side, Mr. Neely partners with the organization to enable the business strategy by focusing on increased IT efficiency, innovation, awareness, and agility. Mr. Neely’s acute business sense comes from a decade as a 'C' level executive in a progressive technology organization, building on the knowledge and insight gained as an alumnus of the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania) and through executive certifications in Management & Leadership and Strategy & Innovation earned at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. On the technical side, Mr. Neely has an engineering background and 20 years of real-world technology experience, staying current through active involvement in the ever-evolving technology community. This experience builds on his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Virginia Tech, his Masters in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon’s nationally top-ranked Heinz School of Policy and Management (graduating summa cum laude), his CIO Certification from CMU and the Federal CIO Council, and his Chief Information Security Officer (CISO/CSO) Certification from Carnegie Mellon’s Cyber Security Lab (Cylab).Mr. Neely was selected as a 2013 InformationWeek 500 winner for Digital Business Leaders & Innovative Users of Technology – coming in at #120, ahead of Microsoft #142, Cisco #152, EMC #161, SAIC #164, SAP #182, and MITRE #212.Specialties: Mr. Neely was selected as one of ExecutiveBiz’s Top 10 CTOs of 2009; is certified in Lean Six Sigma, ITIL, & CMMI, and is a practitioner of PMP, COBIT, and ISO 9001; Mr. Neely is an active Fellow of the Wharton School of Business, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Technology, Entertainment, & Design (TED).Specialties: Technology Business-Alignment, IT Business Value Creation, and Efficiencies Through Effective Technology Use.