Preston Williams III

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Preston Williams III

M. Sc.

Senior Partner & CIO

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  • 07058 Pinebrook
  • United States

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Professional experience

  • Employment status
    Executive

Educational background

  • Languages
    English (First language), French (Basic knowledge)

About me

Senior Partner & Chief Information Officer (CIO) at GBC® Global Services
★Visionary Business / Information Technology Executive with Managing Partner, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Chief Information Officer (CIO) experience.
 
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 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 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 Moderator of the Internet Evolution Executive Clan.

Specialties:
♦ Accounting – Auditing
♦ Business Development
♦ Contract Negotiations
♦ Corporate Identity & Public Relations
♦ Entrepreneur - Visionary Leader
♦ Financial Management (P&L)
♦ Innovative Products and Services Development
♦ Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
♦ Information Technology System Management (ITSM)
♦ Internet / E-commerce
♦ IT Architecture & Service Delivery
♦ Market Expansion
♦ Mergers & Acquisitions
♦ Outsourcing
♦ Organizational Leadership
♦ Operations - Executive Management
♦ Program / Project Management
♦ Research & Development (R&D)
♦ Strategic Alliances & Partnerships
♦ Sales, Marketing & Business Planning
♦ Staff Management & Team Building
♦ Systems Integration & Deployment
 

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