Paul is working with several major organizations as an Advisor to help them build their business development capabilities, and to strengthen their sales and marketing operations.  In addition, he is providing advice on critical large projects, procurement opportunities and other issues.  Paul is also, serving as an independent Director for several corporate Boards.

As the first Chief Information Officer for the Government of Canada, Paul established a new strategic direction for information technology in government, managing a budget of $4 billion per year and a professional staff of 16,000.  During his term as Federal CIO, Paul developed a strategic technology implementation plan for Canada, recruited 1,000 information system professionals, managed IT investments and operations, and created information policies, while achieving economies in the IT and IM infrastructure and operations across the government.

Paul has substantial experience with ERP/CRM, including 16 SAP installations and 28 PeopleSoft installations.  In addition, he has experience with Siebel and Pivotal CRM systems and has extensive knowledge of and experience in e-business, internet/intranet, networking, telecommunications and all underlying technologies.

Paul was the Director of Information Systems for Vancouver General Hospital, a leading North American health care centre and the second largest hospital in Canada.

Paul was President of the Technology Subsidiary and CIO of one of the top Global Performance Management firms.  He revitalized the business, putting together a new management team, sales force and administrative staff, prepared business plans and secured financing.

As a Senior Partner of KPMG Consulting Canada, Paul was responsible for establishing the Financial Services Enabling Technologies Practice for KPMG Canada.  He recruited a focused financial services team, secured and delivered consulting assignments to major clients, and completed projects using electronic payments and other leading edge technologies.

Paul was a Partner/Practice Director – Pacific Region for Ernst & Young.  He restructured and focused the IT consulting practice on major corporate, institutional and entrepreneurial clients including financial institutions, utilities, government and health care.  He managed the deployment of systems and business process improvement methodology and achieved record profit levels for the practice.

As a Partner for KPMG Peat Marwick, Paul was responsible for the Vancouver Technical Services Practices.  He secured and managed a major series of consulting engagements and led the practice in marketing, profitability, services and product planning.

Paul Rummell is one of the leading IT professionals in North America. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Paul has over 30 years experience as an IT strategist, innovator and project manager in the financial services, e-government and health care sectors.  He is the former Chief Information Officer for the Government of Canada and has testified before the United States Congress on establishing a federal CIO.

Paul is a highly skilled business leader with a proven track record of managing all phases of complex IT initiatives from conceptualization through implementation, while delivering the best return on investment.  He has successfully managed many $100 million plus projects, and has been responsible for an IT and e-business budget of $4 billion.  Having worked extensively on a global scale, Paul understands the international and technology issues of global operations and installations.

Paul has extensive experience in applied information technologies in major organizations. He has had a broad exposure to technology strategy, governance and management, program / project management, training, quality assurance, testing, security, hardware, software and network technologies. He is proven in applying new technologies and managing a wide variety of complex business and systems environments. 

He gets results and achieves high performance.

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