Business & Technology Advisor

JOSEPH R. VITO

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BUSINESS AND TECHNOLGOY TRANSFORMATION

Experienced advisor and executive leader adept at driving business and technology transformation for organizations in complex, rapidly evolving markets. Noted for guiding executive teams through modernization initiatives, cloud adoption, and innovation strategies that align business objectives with scalable technology solutions. Delivers board-level insight on transformation programs, data-driven modernization, and adoption of advanced technologies such as machine learning and Generative/Agentic AI, ensuring sustainable business outcomes.

PROFESSIONAL PURSUIT

Poised to pursue impactful advisory and board roles post-AWS, leveraging over 25 years of executive leadership and 9 years at AWS guiding digital transformation for global enterprises. Brings deep expertise in cloud adoption, innovative technology strategies (inclusive AI capabilities), and scaling transformation initiatives across multiple industries (financial services, healthcare, manufacturing/supply chain, consumer products etc..), with a strong track record in C-suite roles across financial services and commercial data sectors. Focused on driving strategic planning, organizational modernization, and sustained innovation at the board level.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

RACKSPACE TECHNOLOGY, San Antonio Texas 2026 - Pres

SVP Strategic Alliance Partnerships 01/2026 - Pres

Develop and execute partnership strategies for key technology alliances in the AI ecosystem

Build and maintain executive-level relationships with strategic partners to ensure alignment and business value

Create joint business plans with revenue targets, co-selling motions, and market development initiatives

Lead strategic partnerships with resellers, distributors, system integrators, and technology alliances

Identify, evaluate, and onboard new strategic partners to strengthen AI capabilities and market positioning.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES, New York, New York 2016 - 2026

Strategic Transformation Principal, Global Services Business Development 11/2016 - 01/2026

Leading collaboration with executive sponsors to accelerate business outcomes through multi-year transformation programs, leveraging AWS and partner professional services

Focusing on short-term goals and objectives to build momentum towards long-term sustainable capabilities

Providing expertise in innovation and go-to-market strategies, based on a product-oriented operating model with business-focused prioritization

Understanding and investing time in legacy platforms and supporting business functions targeted for modernization, with a focus on digitalization and data transformation use cases

Scaling projects to program-level execution, particularly for cutting-edge technologies such as Machine Learning, Generative AI, Agentic AI

EMC, Hopkinton, Massachusetts 2013 - 2016

Partner, IT Transformation 6/2013 - 11/2016

Leading Application Transformation professional services alignment between Pivotal and Dell/EMC based on various levels of platform and cloud economic models designed to drive an Agility Based business case

Act as an advisor to business and technology executives on integrating end-to-end transformation from application modernization driving workload migration and processing across hybrid compute/storage/network

Lead re-definition of EMC’s Alliance Program and mapping Federation/Partner capabilities

Designed the framework for EMC Federation engagement model from client selection criteria and decision framework to integrated project planning, statements of work, and cross federation work stream assignments

UBS AG, Weehawken, New Jersey 2011 - 2013

Managing Director / CIO - Group Data Services 1/2011 - 6/2013

Managed 250 Developers, Application/Data Architects

Managed $150M technology investment portfolio, plus $20M global end-of-life investment pool

Successfully built a shared services Group Data Services organization designed to industrialize reference data operations and platforms/architecture based on the constructs of data domains, commercialization of data supply chain and standardization of data distribution services, resulting in optimizing $5-10M savings in resource/project costs

Revitalized Wealth Management Americas technology organization in 12 months by managing over 50% of resource reductions, upgrades and shifting to a more cost-effective onshore/offshore operating mode

Managed the collaboration between the CTO and Platform Services teams on design/deployment of an industry leading open source/commercial software solution for enterprise service bus/messaging/business services layer

Managed the delivery of compliant and innovative solutions supporting Wealth Management front-office desktop strategy and streamlined operational flow forms automation for Know-Your-Client regulations

LEADER NETWORKS, Belmont, Massachusetts, KYNETX, Lehi, Utah, 2010 - 2011

Advisor (short-term assignment) 5/2010 - 1/2011

A new context-aware platform (Event Driven Architecture) that enables the convergence of multiple disparate technologies (cloud computing, mobile computing, internet browsing, legacy customer relationship management)

●Led business development efforts in the area of architectural positioning in solving enterprise level business challenges, and driving “app” innovation at the intersection of social and mobile convergence

●Specialized consulting firm that helps clients look beyond marketing to realize social business’ full potential, including social-based CRM, customer intimacy/retention, new product and services lines driven by customers.

●Developed a comprehensive social media assessment framework designed to provide business/technology stakeholders with a road-map that focuses on integrating social media with core customer operations content.

DUN & BRADSTREET, Short Hills, New Jersey 2006 - 2010

Chief Technology Officer, Leader of Data Technology & Back Office Operations 3/2006 - 5/2010

●Managed 400 Developers, Application/Data Architects, Security/Infrastructure & outsource datacenter partner

●Managed $75M technology investment portfolio, inclusive of a strategic datacenter relocation/consolidation

●Achieved Technology Re-engineering Program targets with $35M in cost savings over three years across all areas of support costs: infrastructure, vendors, personnel, telecommunications, governance, and applications

●Led the site selection and scope of operations design to relocate a Data Operations and Product Innovation center from the US to Ireland to achieve revenue recognition and effective corporate tax rate business goals

●Architect of a Global Product & Technology Simplification Strategy measured against customer revenue, product simplification, and technology investment targets, with eventual transition Product team leaders

●Designed and executed against a Technology Strategy based on best-of-breed open source standards/products resulting in industry leading implementations of an enterprise service bus/messaging and re-usable web services

U.S. TRUST, Jersey City, New Jersey & New York, New York 2004 - 2006

Chief Technology Officer, Technology Support & Services Inc 3/2004 - 3/2006

●Managed 100 Developers, Application/Data Architects, Security/Infrastructure & parent datacenter partner

●Managed $50M technology investment portfolio plus parent datacenter resources

●Architect of three-year Technology Strategy approved by Executive Management Committee outlining objectives in Standards/Process Improvement, Data Convergence, and Application Convergence & Platforms.

●Coordinated a $3MM reduction in Infrastructure Support chargeback from parent company (Charles Schwab) comprised of support reductions around Help Desk, Servers & Datacenter Costs associated to batch processing

●Responsible for overall project governance within our RUP framework and developed a series of artifacts to evaluate data, application, security and hardware impact with which to identify opportunities to achieve our Technology Strategy and integrate infrastructure support with parent company (Charles Schwab)

●Designed elements of a SOA Framework and Web Services by identifying opportunities within existing budget/project(s) that would achieve an estimated 30% re-use of code for future projects

MERRILL LYNCH, Princeton, New Jersey & New York, New York 1991 - 2004

Development Manager –to- First Vice President, Global Private Client 3/1991 - 3/2004

●Managed 500-700 Developers, Application/Data Architects, Quality Assurance, Business Analysts

●Managed $150M+ technology investment portfolio, plus $20M global end-of-life investment pool

●Responsible for a broad application portfolio on existing platforms, including Client Relationship Management, Portfolio Management/Reporting, Financial Planning, Trust, Order Management, Research for Broker & Call Center Workstations and Client Websites, Decision Support Systems and Merrill Lynch Online and Merrill Lynch direct web sites.

●Developed and delivered a customer wealth management data solution which served as the cornerstone for an innovative partnership in the development of a precedent setting Wealth Management Workstation and Client Website solution worth $1 billion over five years with OPEX reductions of $75–$100MM.

●Generated $30MM in cost savings by managing right-sizing of organizations from 700 employees to 450

●Participated in joint technology/business team responsible for the solution evaluation, vendor selection and contract negotiation for an industry leading Wealth Management Workstation and Client Website solution for 25,000 Financial Advisors & 2MM clients. Industry leading partnership Merrill Lynch, SIEBEL Thomson ILX.

●Selected to participate on a four man team that successfully defended a $250M federal research and development tax credit

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts – Managerial Economics, 1986 UNION COLLEGE, Schenectady, NY

Masters of Business Administration – Financial Management, 1990 PACE UNIVERSITY, New York, NY

NASD Certification (Series 7, Series 63), 1990

Six Sigma – Executive Training, 2003

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