Paul Lewis, CTO of Hitachi Canada Joining The IT Media Group’s Advisory Board
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- Monday, 25 January 2016 08:00
Toronto -- January 25, 2016 – We are pleased to announce the latest addition to our Advisory Board, Paul Lewis, Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Canada. As the country CTO, Paul is responsible for Technology, Architecture, Advisory and Economic practices. Additionally, Paul leads technology advocacy of the Hitachi vision and strategy, heads field enablement of Analytics for the Americas, evangelizes complex technology trends including Cloud, Mobility and Analytics across the Americas; and represents Americas in the Global Technology Office, the Hitachi LTD R&D division.
Prior to joining Hitachi, and for the past 20 years as a client, Paul has focused on technology R&D and innovation, IT/business strategic plans and governance, security and risk management, software and infrastructure architecture as the CTO and Senior Executive Technologist of several financial services organizations from start-ups to large business services providers.
Paul is a frequent speaker at technology and industry events as well as various higher educational institutions across the country on topics ranging from IT leadership to Big Data/Internet of Things. In his role of trusted advisor to the CIO community, Paul’s explicit goal is to ensure clients’ problems are solved and opportunities realized.
“When I think about leveraging technology to fuel innovation and make a true impact on society, Hitachi is one of the few ‘biggies’ that came to mind”, said Nasheen Liu, Partner and Vice President of Strategy at the IT Media Group. “We are thrilled to have Paul join us as an advisor providing strategic guidance on issues and topics that concern the CIO and the technology vendor communities”.
“The IT Media Group has been an instrumental partner for us enabling Hitachi to connect with the technology executive community in Canada and benefit from their valuable insights. I’m looking forward to contributing my knowledge and ideas to help further the collaboration between technology and business communities”, said Lewis.
The IT Media Group is an award-winning producer of programs and content for senior IT executives. Based in Toronto, our leadership team includes some of the most experienced and well respected media, technology and business professionals serving the IT executive community in Canada.






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