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Sam Moultrie

Affiliate, The Feld Group Institute

Deep expertise in enterprise technology architecture and IT organization transformation.

About Sam

Sam Moultrie is an Affiliate of The Feld Group Institute and President of Moultrie Group LLC, which provides senior-level IT consulting to corporations in multiple industries that seek to improve their business and IT alignment.

With more than 30 years of experience in IT operational and senior consulting roles, Sam’s primary focus is on helping to transform organizations in key ways that include becoming better and more effective consumers of IT services. He is adept at building strong partnerships with CEOs, CIOs, and other executives, as well as technology professionals, and brings to each engagement his deep expertise in needs assessment, strategic planning, establishing priorities, delegating tasks, and motivating teams to achieve their best.

Sam joined The Feld Group Institute in 2015. He is currently serving as a Senior Consultant at Cubic Corporation, where his responsibilities include establishing an enterprise technology architecture organization to support Cubic’s IT transformation. His consulting clients have included Brinker International, where he helped to implement and define the corporation’s enterprise architecture. At Brinker, he also served as a consultant to the Project Management Office (PMO), created artifacts for the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the intake processes, and participated in major technology contract negotiations and IT executive recruitment.

Sam has held a number of IT leadership roles at major global corporations, including serving as VP of Application Development at United Airlines, where he was responsible for all application development and leverage development services capability. Earlier, he served as United’s VP of Common Services.

During the course of his extensive career, Sam also previously served as CTO of Electronic Data Systems, where he managed over one hundred engineers to deliver support to the core business and its largest clients, including GM, DWP, and the U.S. Navy. Previously, while a consultant with The Feld Group, he served as Enterprise Architecture Director of Southwest Airlines; as VP of Technology for The Home Depot; as VP/CDO of Common Services at First Data Corporation; and as CIO of Freightwise. Earlier in his career, he held IT management roles at BNSF Railway, CSX Railroad, and elsewhere.

During the 1980’s, Sam served as a Computer Operator in the United States Air Force, where he worked in computer intelligence and held a top-secret security clearance.

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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.