|  Donald R.
Hollis is President of DRH Strategic Consulting, Inc. which
assists clients in developing strategies for leveraging
technology and quality practices to improve payments related
transaction processing products as well as in finding appropriate
acquisitions. His
clients have included NCR, Tandem, Unisys, Cash Station,
First National Bank of Chicago, Deluxe Corporation, S.W.I.F.T.,
Edify Corporation, SAIC and others.
From 1981 to 1996 he was an Executive
Vice President of First Chicago Corporation responsible
for its technology leadership and its commercial transaction
processing businesses. Mr.
Hollis was a Vice President and Group Executive of Chase
Manhattan Bank from 1971 to 1981. He also served as
a Director, General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of
Interactive Data Corporation, a Chase subsidiary, and as
a Director of a number of other technically based Chase subsidiaries. He
was frequently involved in buying and selling I.T. companies.
From 1959 through 1967, he held various data processing
responsibilities at the Glidden Company, and became Director
of Corporate Systems for SCM Corporation when Glidden and
Smith-Corona Marchant merged in 1967.
Mr. Hollis served on the Executive Committee
of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Board of Trustees
and the IITRI Board of Governors for nearly two decades. He was Chairman
of the IIT Business School Board of Overseers for ten years. He
currently is a Life Trustee. Mr. Hollis has served
on the Board of Directors of over a dozen publicly and privately
held telecommunications and information technology firms
and presently is a Director of Wausau Financial, EXSS and
Solaris International Trading.
Mr. Hollis has served on the Board of Advisors for Bankers Magazine and
on the New York Federal Reserve Banks Payments Risk Committee. He
is a former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American
Bankers Association's Operations and Automation Division,
is past President of the National Association for Check Safekeeping,
past Chairman of the American Management Associations Information
Technology Counsel and has served on CBOE, ABA, NACHA and
BankWire task forces.
Mr. Hollis graduated from Kent State University with a B.S.
in business administration.
Contact Information:
Donald R. Hollis
875 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 2300
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 255-6975
don.hollis@diamondconsultants.com |
