Niel is an experienced, innovative leader with the proven ability to achieve dramatic improvements in personnel and processes such as reducing ERP implementation costs by almost 50%, reducing IT costs while adding new services. He has proven ability to increase the capability of IT departments, improving information systems reliability from less than 90% to more than 99%. Niel has more than 25 years experience in the rapid/adaptive selection, implementation, and deployment of enterprise business applications, analysis tools, and systems.

Niel is currently the Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Energy Solutions, Inc. He has held technology executive and operations executive positions; typically in turnaround roles. His strategic and tactical alignment model significantly improves returns on technology and business initiatives.

He holds a MS in Engineering from MIT, a BS in Physics from Utah State University, and an MBA from Utah State University. He writes an enterprise CIO column for TechTarget. CRN Magazine named Niel one of the top 25 IT Executives of 2008. Niel is also one of the founders of Accelinnova, a think tank focused on improving organizational and IT agility.

Contact Niel at nnick@accelinnova.com.

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