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Doug Register

Affiliate, The Feld Group Institute

Global experience in infrastructure, networks, information security, and data centers.

About Doug

Douglas K. Register is an Affiliate with the Feld Group Institute and President of the Register Technology Group. Doug guides clients through complex business-driven technology challenges, with special expertise in the areas of infrastructure, networks and telecommunications, information security, and data centers.

Doug has a proven ability to establish and communicate a compelling vision for an organization. During his 30-year career, he has built a strong record of success for leading IT infrastructure organizations through periods of transformational change, improving all aspects of operational performance even in the most challenging business environments. He has held full responsibility for budgets exceeding $100M and teams greater than 650 professionals.

In serving consulting clients, Doug taps his extensive senior IT management experiences in the rail, airline, healthcare, and financial services industries. Among his organizational strengths is his ability to recruit, develop, motivate, and retain diverse staff, structuring them into teams that deliver both savings and results.

Doug’s business resume and relationships are extensive. Prior to joining the Feld Group Institute as an Affiliate, Doug was VP, Infrastructure Engineering and Operations, at Asurion, where he held global leadership responsibility for infrastructure engineering. Doug also served as VP, IT Service Management and Engineering, at United Airlines. There, he led the transformation of the technology infrastructure organization, dramatically improving global service, reducing costs by more than $50M per year, and enhancing employee satisfaction and engagement scores by 20% to 30%, year over year.

Earlier, Doug served as VP, IT Service Delivery, for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida; VP, IT Operations, for Delta Air Lines, and Director, IT Service Delivery for Barnett Bank. Doug began his career as Director, Network Services, for CSX Technology.

Doug’s foundational education in electronics, oceanography, navigation, and tactics comes from serving with the U.S. Naval Air Reserves.

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Russell Villemez

Affiliate, The Feld Group Institute

Head of Technology Strategy, Dialexa – a Feld Group Institute partner

Highly regarded CTO and change agent with IT strategy and enterprise architecture expertise.

Russell Villemez is an Affiliate with the Feld Group Institute and the head of Technology Strategy at Dialexa, a Technology Research, Design and Creation firm that works with organizations on initiatives such as Operational Transformation, Business Growth, and New Venture Creation.

During 17 years in operational roles and 15 years in consulting roles, Russell has worked across a variety of industries in both executive leadership positions and as a subject matter expert. Russell thrives on the scale and complexity of leading major change agendas in large corporate environments.

Recent consulting clients include AmerisourceBergen, the American Automobile Association, Brinker International, Cubic, Equifax, and Cox Automotive. A common thread is the client’s need for strong leadership during a period of change—whether motivated by acquisitions, spin-offs, competitive pressures, or other factors. Clients also benefit from Russell’s expertise in enterprise architecture, agile development, application portfolio rationalization, technology and architecture strategy, as well as business strategy and commercial software product development.

Recognized as a versatile IT executive, adept at solving complex problems with innovative solutions, Russell’s capabilities and achievements span a continuum from business-strategy formation to hands-on IT solution development. His extensive career achievements include pioneering the first use of relational databases in high-volume transaction systems in the ‘80s, applying voice recognition DSPs in public intelligent network services for consumer markets in the ‘90s, and leading large-scale adoptions of open systems, object technology, and middleware frameworks in complex business environments, often in advance of commercially available software products.

Prior to joining Dialexa, Russell served at HP as Enterprise Services Chief Technology Officer for the Americas, leading a global capability for embedded Account CTOs in large enterprises. Russell began his career at Accenture, where he first crafted his consultative problem-solving approach, later honed at A.T. Kearny and the Feld Group. Russell’s deep telecom experience is built upon numerous director and enterprise architect positions at AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Telstra, US West, Pacific Bell, and Sprint, and as V.P. and CIO for WebLink Wireless.

Russell has a BS in Business Administration from Louisiana State University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. In his spare time, Russell participates in amateur auto racing, and is a driving instructor with the Porsche Club of America.