Hitesh Chawda Email Address

Vice President, Global Information Technology Service Delivery and Telecommunications

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world.

I am CIO for a 1100+ person, $600million revenue, publicly traded consultancy headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. I am a competent and experienced individual, with technical and management skills who has been working in the Management and Business consultancy environment for over 20+ years, providing support, designing and implementing systems infrastructure, unified communications, business continuity and disaster recovery, working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. My unique selling point is my exceptional client service orientation with internal and external clients across all grades and locations. Managing staff globally, with a proven ability in management skills, my current key responsibilities include annual budgetary control, procurement, vendor and contract management, project management. I am a well-organized highly motivated individual with first class client facing skills. With my methodical approach and deep understanding of business goals and objectives, I possess a natural ability to present ideas in user-friendly manner to both technical and non-technical, internal and external clients, have keen attention to detail, and proven analytical and problem solving abilities. I have outstanding verbal and written communications skills (strong documentation skills), am able to absorb and retain information effectively and this coupled with my good listening and questioning ability enables me to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment. Specialties: An active member of the Society for Information Management, Executive Regional Leadership Forum, Regional Leadership Forum, CIO Executive Council Pathways Leadership Development Program, IT Governance, IT Leadership, Security Council, Administrative Leadership Committee