Robert Devers

Sr. Director, Avasant and Former CIO, Virco

High-energy, results-oriented Information Technology Executive with extensive global leadership experience across multiple industries and organizations including Disney, The Capital Group, International Paper, Dole Food Company, and Avery Dennison.

Highly versatile, effective and collaborative leader with deep information technology expertise and demonstrable success leading organizations to achieve operational goals, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. Success leading organizations through change initiatives to achieve sustained process and service improvements.

Highly experienced in areas of strategy, providing high-level vision, and then transition to executing details, leveraging in-depth technical knowledge; Leadership, with an ability to build momentum, mentor and motivate staff to achieve peak performance; Transformation, with proven improvements in the IT areas through construction of shared services, and improving effectiveness; and delivery of large scale projects through proven and best practice project management methodologies.