Biography of the President

Pete DeLisi is Founder and President of Organizational Synergies, a strategy consulting firm located in Fremont, California. Prior to his current position, Pete spent sixteen years at Digital Equipment Corporation---eight of those years as a consultant to Digital's large, Fortune 500-size customers.

In addition to his extensive consulting background, Pete has spent over twenty years in senior sales and marketing positions with Digital Equipment Corporation, and previously, IBM. This "real-world" exposure has provided him a wealth of practical experience to couple with his consulting expertise.

Pete is a member of the World Future Society and is respected for his ability to translate leading-edge thinking into practical organizational principles. His keen insights have been published in the Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Business Horizons and Journal of Management Inquiry.

In addition to his consulting work, Pete is the Academic Dean of the Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP) at Santa Clara University. This educational program is designed to provide IT executives the general management and executive-level skills they need to successfully lead their organizations.

Pete has a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Detroit and has completed post-graduate work in Meteorology, Philosophy and Psychology. In addition, for the past eighteen years, Pete has worked closely with one of the foremost authorities in organizational behavior from the MIT Sloan School.

Pete's in-depth knowledge of strategy, organizational behavior, marketing and information technology, along with his broad and diversified educational background, have prepared him to bring a fresh and multidimensional perspective to the strategic challenges of the 1990s and 21^st century.