Bill Wachel

bill.wachel @ gmail.com ; 214-697-9942

I like to work in rapidly growing companies, leading the IT staff to establish trust, improve and stabilize services, focus on customer service, and partner with peer business executives to achieve growth objectives, often positioning the company for financial transactions. My passion is bringing order to chaotic, underperforming IT environments and increasing the business contribution from information technology.

My employment includes most recently served as the CIO for an international non-profit organization, managing information technology, social media, digitial advertising, and BI reporting teams to deliver content to over 170 million people world-wide, with over 20 million acting on the content.

Prior roles include Chief Information Officer at a $90 million health insurance company; senior IT executive at the largest anesthesiology physician group in the United States; and CIO at an $80 million international provider of hosted software. Earlier in my career, I was a Principal at international strategy firm Booz Allen & Hamilton and served five years on the board of the Department of Information Resources (DIR) at the State of Texas, the agency responsible for IT strategy and policy across State agencies in Texas.

I hold a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and am a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C-CISO).

Specialties: Technology Stabilization Change Leadership Infrastructure Management Software as a Service (SaaS) Risk Mitigation and Compliance IT Strategic Planning and Governance Collaboration and Trust Building Board Interactions IT Operational Optimization Process Improvement Vendor Relationship Management