About - Monroe Bodden Chief Information Officer
A
seasoned business professional and
technologist with over twenty-five years experience,
Monroe Bodden
is the founder and Chief information Officer of MBCIO, a technology services advisory company. Prior to
forming MBCIO, Monroe established himself as expert in applying advanced technology to solve
business problems through extensive experience gained advising a wide range of companies
and industries. Monroe began his career as a systems engineer with IBM, developing application
solutions for portfolio analysis and trading in the securities industry.
After progressing through the sales ranks, Monroe advanced into a senior role in
marketing operations where he developed customer organization analysis programs to assist the IBM sales teams, systems engineers and consultants in solving customer
business problems.
As a marketing practitioner, Monroe was an early
adopter of Customer Relationship Management as a methodology to improve target marketing and customer retention. Monroe devised innovative methods of applying CRM processes before packaged CRM technology was
popularized. As a result of his success
in this position, Monroe was tapped to lead a new business initiative in which he acquired and then managed a
software startup on behalf of IBM.
This
venture developed and sold CRM solutions to financial services companies
around the world. Prior to leaving
IBM, he served as a Services Executive leading a global field services team in providing
systems management and consulting services
for Citigroup, at the time IBM’s largest worldwide commercial banking customer.
After leaving IBM in
1999 Monroe formed RelationOne, a company that specialized in developing E-Business and
relationship management solutions.
RelationOne developed solutions for large and small companies in the
health-care, transportation, financial services,
media and entertainment and travel and leisure industries.
In 2004
Monroe
joined a software company in
New
Jersey
where he was in charge of international sales
for their data protection product. The
company had no international presence for the data protection and storage management software product and wanted to open
up new markets. During his
tenure at the company,
Monroe
developed
sales and distribution channels in
Australia
,
New Zealand
,
Thailand
,
Singapore
,
Israel
,
Turkey
and
Hong
Kong
.
Most recently Monroe has
worked as an independent consultant providing
information technology management advice to clients in the New York metropolitan
area.
Monroe earned a Bachelor of Business Administration at Howard University in Washington DC and earned a Masters of Business
Administration at Columbia University in New
York.
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