William L. Stuckey

Principle embodied: Expect What You Get – X-Principle #10

William (Bill) Stuckey is an Operating Partner with Arsenal Capital Partners, an industry-focused private equity company. His primary responsibility is to increase the value and support provided to each Arsenal portfolio business by their Information Technology Departments.

He has substantial experience as a chief information and technology officer (CIO). Bill is a high- performance, results driven senior executive with a career spanning 36 years demonstrating visionary leadership and distinguished performance in Information Technology (IT). He is well recognized in the computer and telecommunication industries.

Bill has a proven background as a world-class executive. He understands how to link the importance of IT into the fabric of the business enterprise. In this regard, he provides a rather unique set of experiences to the board. He understands the importance of linking the backroom to the boardroom.

Bill has worked for several Fortune 500 companies such as General Motors, United Technologies and Lucent Technologies. In addition, he has worked for grass-root start-up businesses. He has also founded, or been associated with, several small technology companies. In addition to his broad range of company experiences, Bill has substantial global experience, specifically in North America, Asia and Europe.

Bill has more than 18 years of senior leadership and direct management experience of multi-site, national and international IT development and operations, as well as engineering development processing facilities across multiple industries. He is an expert in the development of secure electronic storage, access and delivery of highly sensitive information across multiple industries. Bill has served as an advisor to multiple industries on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, privacy laws, security systems, strategic and operational development and deployment.

Bill earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree from Ohio State University. He also has participated in executive development programs at the University of Chicago.

After 30 years of corporate service and increasing responsibility, prior to joining Arsenal Capital Partners, Bill operated as the Corporate Senior Vice President and CIO for Telephone & Data Systems, Inc., a CLEC/ILEC telecommunications service provider for six months.

Prior to joining Telephone & Data Systems, Inc., Bill was Founder and Managing Director of Global Analysis & Consulting, LLC, a Chicago-based international business development, security and information technology consulting firm. His firm worked with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help develop an integrated and secured network for the 22 Departments of Government within DHS.

For more than six years, Bill worked at Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He was Vice President and CIO, Operating Divisions and International. He was responsible for supporting three Global Business Units and four Regional Presidents in CALA, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and China. Bill was responsible for an IT group of approximately 1,200 resources and a budget of $550 million.

Prior to joining Lucent Technologies, Bill was Vice President and CIO for the automotive, health care and corporate divisions of Reynolds & Reynolds in Dayton, Ohio. Reynolds is a business forms manufacturer, health care systems and automotive dealership full business solution provider (software and hardware).

He previously worked for United Technologies – Pratt & Whitney, in Hartford, Connecticut, as Director, Systems & Programming. He was responsible for the Commercial and Government Engine Business, Technical Publication Department, Overhaul and Repair, Global Service Parts Supply Chain (military and commercial), P&W Group activities and Corporate Human Resources and Payroll. 

Bill has worked for several other firms during his career, including the public accounting firm, Ernst & Whinney and consumer products manufacturer, Sunbeam Corporation. He began his career at General Motors in Dayton, Ohio.

Bill is an excellent candidate for corporate board service. He has a global operations perspective. As a Founder and President of his own consulting business, Global Analysis & Consulting, he has solid general management and P&L experience. In today’s environment of compliance management, he brings a unique perspective to the boardroom concerning enterprise risk management and business controls.

Bill has served as a board member for non-profit organizations, but he has no experience serving on a public board. He previously served on the NCR advisory board.

Bill has worked in the following industries: aerospace/defense, consumer products, semiconductor, automotive, chemical, software/retailers, telecommunications, cruise lines, hospitality, government, and medical device manufacturing.

Bill speaks Spanish and has a basic knowledge of Greek, French and Mandarin Chinese.
 

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