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Val Oveson Gets a New Job
Val Oveson, Utah’s most recent CIO, announced today that he’s joining CGI-AMS as VP of Strategic Business Development. Congrats to Val. Seeing his title made me wonder though, are their companies that have VPs of Tactical Business Development? I thought all bizdev work was supposed to be strategic.
Posted by windley on February 14, 2005 2:09 PM
Comment from Bug at February 17, 2005 2:24 PM
How interesting ! Did you also know that CGI-AMS was recently selected as the vendor of choice for the State of Utah financial package. Yes when Val was the CIO for Utah. Can you say conflict of interest !!
Comment from Phil Windley at February 18, 2005 9:28 AM
Conspiracy theories can be a lot of fun, but I'm not sure this one pans out. The State has been using AMS as its financial package since 1992. I think all that happened under Val was a decision to continue to use it (and that decision was likely made by the Div. of Finance and only ratified by the CIO). In a time of tight budgets, I'm not sure there's many CIO's who would have recommended changing financial packages.