Robert A. Verdun, Special Advisor

Verdun is a nationally recognized technology integration leader who is CEO of a leading technology integration firm he created. He has advised dozens of Fortune 100 corporations as an application service provider and project manager. This executive delivers presentations at national business conferences, publishes articles and technical papers, has venture capital and turnaround experience, and was an executive board member for the Young Entrepreneurs Organization.

Career: Founder in 1990 of Computerized Facility Integration (CFI), the largest U.S. facility management technology service provider. National real estate clients include Trammel Crow and Jones Lang LaSalle. Management consulting and networking technology services also have been delivered for Sun Microsystems, EDS, Xerox, BP Amoco, Pfizer, GM, Ford, SBC, Sprint, Dow Chemical, American Express, Comerica, Whirlpool, Johnson Controls, Owens Corning, Lockheed Martin, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, the U.S. General Services Administration and dozens of others.

Founder of Best Practices, a Southfield software developer of small business efficiency tools created in 1997 and later sold.

Board of directors member at the American Diabetes Association, 2003-05, and leader of a task force restructuring the governance and core operations of that $225-million organization.

Education: Eastern Michigan University, B.S. in industrial technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology three-year management education program (Birthing of Giants).

Memberships: CoreNet, a global corporate real estate network; International Facilities Management Association.

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