Edward G. Lewis is an international consultant,
educator, and public speaker. He
has been actively involved in management, information technology,
and strategic planning issues for over thirty years.
Mr. Lewis has provided strategic consulting services and educational
seminars for many Fortune 1000 companies, as well as small companies,
plus many large organizations in other countries.
Mr. Lewis has presented over 130 seminars
and workshops on change management
& organizational transformation, global value chain management,
e-business, enterprise architecture, business process management
& reengineering, customer relationship management, knowledge
management, and strategic use of information technology, as
well as numerous workshops and seminars on various information
resources and information systems project management topics.
He has also presented tutorials and individual sessions on these
subjects at many conferences.
Mr. Lewis has held various senior management positions. In
2001, President Bush appointed Mr. Lewis to a four-year term
as a Member of the Board of Directors for the National Veterans
Business Development Corporation. Mr. Lewis has served as Chairman,
Vice Chairman and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee
for this Board.
In 1989, Mr. Lewis was appointed by President Bush to the sub-cabinet
position of Assistant Secretary for Information Resources Management
in the US government. As the first Chief Information Officer
within the Federal Government, he was responsible for overseeing
a large information technology environment, including over 4,300
IT employees, a $600 million IT budget, four large data processing
centers, and all major information technology projects. This
technology environment consisted of multi-vendor, multi-product
hardware (IBM, DEC, Amdahl, Honeywell, WANG, Apple, Oracle)
and software, plus a dynamic telecommunications infrastructure
(WANs, LANs, voice, video).
Mr. Lewis teaches change management, global value chain management,
strategic planning, e-business, business process reengineering,
knowledge management, general management and information technology
courses, both graduate and undergraduate, at the University
of Colorado and the University of Denver. He also teaches for
the University of California at Berkeley and Georgetown University.
He previously taught at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Mr. Lewis has graduate degrees in Engineering Mechanics (Columbia
University), Business (University of Maryland), and Government
(Georgetown University), and an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical
Engineering (U.S. Naval Academy).