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Joel A. Manfredo

joel.manfredo@cox.net Chief Information Officer (949) 606-3072

Joel is a multi-disciplinary executive offering leadership and vision based upon over thirty years of experience working for major organizations in a broad spectrum of functions. He’s spent the last 16 years in transformational Chief Information Officer roles and the prior 18 years in many functions in commercial real estate including leasing, finance, development, operations, marketing, securities, construction, energy and utilities. He is known for the 3Ts: Transformation, Turnaround and Technology.

As the Chief Technology Officer of the County of Orange, Joel ran an IT Service Delivery business for the central shared service IT function. Results included increasing customer satisfaction by a sustained 16% over three years and achieving a top 10% industry benchmark for IT operations while simultaneously reducing costs by 27%. Operationally, he improved the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of the County’s 66,000 square foot data center by 10%... In the CIO role at The Irvine Company results include managing hyper growth while quadrupling output and achieving technical reliance on system-generated financial statements… At The Rouse Company, Joel executed a five year IT transformation including ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence and e-Learning; the program was delivered under budget, on time and on scope with hard cost savings twice the pro-forma realized one year ahead of schedule.

Also at The Rouse Company, he orchestrated a $9.1 million turnaround of a large commercial real estate business including executing energy saving initiatives that resulted in $4.0 million in annual energy cost savings and $3.0 million in utility company rebates. Joel consulted with the EPA in the early 1990s and was instrumental in the applicability of the EnergyStar program to commercial real estate; he had one of the first EnergyStar buildings in the US. He was named one of the top 100 CIOs in the US acknowledging work in Green Technology and received a Digital Impact Award for lifetime technology achievement in real estate.

Joel currently serves on 5 Boards: Society of Information Management, Technology Business Management Council, CleanTechOC, Corporate Committee of the Dean’s Leadership Circle at UC Irvine and the Trojan Club of South Orange County. He is also a mentor in the Executive MBA programs at UC Irvine and Chapman University. He frequently lectures at professional events and at academic institutions.

Education: Master of Science, Finance magna cum laude Loyola College Master of Business Administration magna cum laude Loyola College Bachelor of Science cum laude Lehigh University