John C. Reece is chairman and CEO of John C. Reece & Associates, LLC, the firm he founded to provide personal leadership assistance to corporate and government executives in resolving issues having high impact on their enterprises' value creation performance. The firm assists private and public sector clients over nearly 15 years and enjoys a strong mix of new and repeat relationships.
His entire 50 + year professional career has been devoted to applying leading-edge computing, networking, security and privacy technologies to transform businesses—how they earn and add value, serve their stakeholders and win competitively. He has brought thought leadership and success in all of these endeavors across four ascending career stages— manager/practitioner, professional management consultant, corporate CIO and ultimately, as CEO and entrepreneur
Earlier, Reece served as Deputy Commissioner for Modernization and chief information officer at the IRS. He was also vice president of Information Technology at Time Warner Inc., functioning as that company's first CIO. Before moving to Time Warner, Reece created the enterprise CIO role at Alexander and global insurance broker, Alexander Services, Inc.
He was managing partner of Booz, Allen & Hamilton’s IT practice in the Midwest for over a decade and EVP and managing partner of Strategic Planning Associates’ (SPA) IT strategy team until it was sold to Marsh & McLennan. He began his career as a practicing IT professional at IBM, Union Carbide and American Express Card Division. He currently serves on 3M Corporation’s Visual Privacy Security Advisory Board and has been a Ponemon Fellow since that program’s inception. He is a Northwestern University graduate