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Asa Lanum

Mr. Lanum is a Managing Principal and senior technology principal within The CTO Group. His core capabilities include delivering added value strategic planning and technology services to our clients. Mr. Lanum has served the IT community for over 35 years and has been responsible for establishing IT Strategy, Enterprise architectures and SDLC processes for global IT organizations. The blending of business acumen, strategic thinking, planning and technology has enabled Asa to match corporate, brand, product and project deliverables to deliver IT competitive advantage to our clients.

His experience as an executive responsible for the P&L in publicly held companies coupled with his experience at these customers, process innovation, and technology capabilities allows him to deliver service excellence to his customers. Some of Mr. Lanum’s clients included AL INMA Bank, Stanford University, Deutsche Bank, St John’s University, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Rolls-Royce.

Mr. Lanum has worked on a range of IT Strategy, Architecture, SDLC and Governance projects including:

• Lead IT strategic planning efforts to assure IT alignment with the business strategies which fostered the development of multi-year IT plans.
• Created and lead the development of enterprise information technology architecture standards, policies and technology roadmaps.
• Lead critical thinking during IT planning to assure that proper technology plans and product portfolios are developed and the associated SDLC and governance processes are utilized.
• Lead architecture and design teams for major on-line banking applications.

Previously he was President and CEO of FORTEL Inc. (NASD – FRTL) an independent software vendor specializing in service level management. Prior to FORTEL he was Senior Vice President Advanced Systems and Chief Technology Officer for OpenVision Technologies, a premier supplier of integrated systems and network management software. Before joining OpenVision, Mr. Lanum was a co-founder and CEO of Enterprise Technology, Inc., a developer of Intel-based closely-coupled distributed multiprocessor UNIX server clusters. He has held a number of executive positions within the computer industry at Sun Microsystems, ICL Ltd., Pansophic Systems and Amdahl.

Mr. Lanum holds a Bachelors Degree State University New York and has received a National Engineering Development Organization Award, Innovation in Management (Great Britain)