John Oechsle joined IHS in July 2003 as Senior Vice President Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for all Technology and Content Accumulation worldwide including Product Development Product Architecture Internal Business Applications Infrastructure Content Operation Centers and Data Accumulation. He brings to IHS experience in worldwide IT infrastructure standardization e-business and commercial product development as well as expertise in strategic IT enabled business planning large program/project management and technology business solutions.
Prior to IHS John was the Company CIO Vice President Information Management Worldwide for Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics a $1.5 billion Johnson & Johnson (J&J) company where he was responsible for all information technology and e-business on a worldwide basis. Prior to Ortho John established the Latin American business unit of Networking & Computing Services (NCS) for J&J and also served as the Latin American Executive Director. He has also held executive positions as Sr. Vice President CTO for Land America Financial Group and Director Global Information Management for Kellogg Company.
John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University in Camden NJ and is a graduate of the Tuck Executive Program at Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in Hanover NH. John serves as the Chairman of the Board for CSIA Colorado’s Technology Association. He also serves on the Industry Advisory Board for the University of Denver’s Computer Science and Engineering school and on the Board for the University of Colorado’s Center for Information Technology and Innovation (CITI). John was named 2006 Technology Executive of the Year for the State of Colorado. |