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Senior
Partner & CIO Preston Williams III is
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 Chairman of the GBC® Board
of Directors, an Associate Member of ExecuNet, recipient of
the IBM® Global
Services Leadership
Award, Published Author and a
Moderator of the Internet
Evolution Executive Clan.
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Entrepreneur - Visionary Leader |
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