Senior
Partner & CIO
GBC Global Services
Preston
Williams III is Founder,
Senior
Partner & Chief
Information Officer (CIO)
at GBC®
Global Services. He is
a pioneer and futurist with
20+ years of Big
4, Fortune
500, Global 100 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 Kenya, Liberia, 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
a member of the American
Business Network (ABN),
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 EDUCAUSE
CIO
Constituent Group, the Carolina
Information Technology Professionals Group (CITPG)
and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum of Cambridge. Preston is
also a member of the International
Entrepreneurs Club, the International
Technology Channels Association (ITCA), Tech
Republic and
the Global
CIO Think Tank.
Mr.
Williams is DUNSRight™ certified
with Dun
& Bradstreet (D&B)
and an IBM
Signature Selling Methodology (SSM™)
certified professional. Preston holds
a B. Sc. Degree in Economics from Cuttington
University College and
a M. Sc. in Regional Planning with a Specialization in Resource
Allocation & System Dynamics from the University
of Liberia. He studied Auditing
at the Institute
of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and
holds a CPA from the Liberian
Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Preston has
a CIS from Great
Plains Software in
Fargo, North Dakota, USA. He also
studied Comprehensive General Management at the Executive
Education Program of
the Harvard
Business School at Harvard
University in
Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Preston
Williams III is a
contributor to CloudBook
and Enterprise
Efficiency. He is
Chairman
of the GBC® Board of
Directors, an Associate Member of ExecuNet,
recipient of the IBM® Global
Services Leadership
Award, Published
Author a
frequent guest
speaker at conventions, and a
Moderator of the Internet
Evolution Executive Clan.
