Shahla Butler, PhD.

Dr. Shahla Butler is an expert in technology architecture and strategy and provides consulting services in these areas to corporations, especially financial services organizations. She is currently the Principal at Butler Strategic Consulting. Her past positions include Vice President of Technology Strategy and Architecture at Freddie Mac, Vice President and Director of the American Management Systems (AMS) Center for Advanced Technologies and Knowledge Management, Vice President and Program Manager for Intelus a Workflow and Imaging Start-up Company, Director of Office Automation and Distributed Client/Server Systems at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). She has been a winner of the Computer World’s “Premier 100 IT Leaders” in 2000 and 2004. This annual awards program honors people driving strategy and innovation in the country’s leading IT departments. She was honored as one of the “Top 100 Women in Technology” by the McGraw Hill/Business Week in 1996. She has been a pioneer in the innovative use of technology in practical applied business situations. She has been a frequent speaker at major technology conferences and had a monthly byline in Data Management magazine on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence until 2001.

Education

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry - University of Chicago 1974

Master of Science, Physical Chemistry – University of Chicago 1972

Bachelor of Science, Chemistry – University of Michigan 1968