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Have:	Passionate Entrepreneur with Corporate & Higher Education experience .	Want:	Creative Sales professionals with successful RFP/RFI & BID experience.
Title:	Senior Partner & CIO	Home:	Pinebrook, NJ USA
Company:	GBC® Global Services	From:	,
Industry Category:	Information Technology & Services	Universities:	University of Liberia M.Sc. Cuttington University College B.Sc.
Industries:	Information Technology Consulting Services,	Interests:	Innovative Technologies...,

Experience:
Chief Information Officer (CIO)	Langston University	Aug 2006 - Jul 2007	Higher Education Industry
Project Executive	IBM® Global Services	Aug 1997 - Dec 2001	Information Technology & Services Industry
Product Manager - Global Data Collection	Dun & Bradstreet - D&B	Aug 2004 - Sep 2005	Information Services Industry

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 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 Liberia, Kenya, 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 Regional 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 member of the Internet Evolution Executive Clan.

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