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Chief Digital Officer

Bio-Techne empowers researchers in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics by providing high-quality reagents, instruments, custom manufacturing, and testing services. Our family of brands creates a unique portfolio of products and services.

Senior executive with 20+ years of leadership experience in environments ranging from medium to large blue chip enterprises in various industries which include Healthcare, Telecom, Agriculture and Construction Products. Experience in high growth and dynamic businesses with key roles in Information Technology. Proven leader with experience derived from being the CIO at Cerner Corporation, a $5B global leader in the healthcare electronic health record market. Transformed Cerner’s IT organization into a business centric organization focused on enabling business innovation and operational efficiencies. Extensive experience building and leading effective teams. Leverages depth in business technologies to develop strategies and define vision and direction. Proven ability to conceptualize, launch and deliver multiple projects on schedule while also managing cost and risk. Specialties: Developing effective leaders and organizations, Building relationships across business units, Vendor relationships and contract negotiations, Business continuity, disaster recovery, and high availability, Information security policies, governance, and execution, Strategic planning and operational improvements, FDA and ISO regulatory compliance, Teleco, infrastructure, and end user technologies, Web, ERP, BI, and CRM solutions, New product introduction and lifecycle management