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Butch Leonardson has 30 years in Information Technology (IT) leadership. His initial 12 years in the profession was in strategic IT consulting and large-scale systems implementation. He served as a practice director for the financial services industry with Arthur Anderson & Co. (Accenture).
From 1988 to 1996, he was the Associated Executive Director and Chief Information Officer for Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He then spent two years at Harvard Medical School exploring pilot programs for disease management systems in Japan, the Middle East, India and Singapore.
Since 1999 he has been the VP & CIO for BECU, a $7 billion credit union serving 460,000 members in Washington State.
Butch earned a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Business Administration at Seattle University. He is currently serving on the schools' Board of Regents and is active in the Albers School of Business Mentor program.
He is a frequent speaker on IT organizational leadership and a Lecturer for the Master's of Business Administration program at the University of Washington, Bothell, and has participated as an Adjunct Faculty Member in the MBA program at Seattle University. | 