Alexander Pasik Biography

Alexander Pasik’s career combines strategic and visionary consulting, entrepreneurial and operational expertise, investment research and advisory services, and academic depth in information technology. In the course of his career, he has founded and managed multimillion dollar departments at Gartner, Lazard Freres, and Ernst & Young, advised and participated in venture investments with an average rate of return of 40x, been chief information officer at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and done so while continuing to contribute academically. Much of Dr. Pasik’s work has focused on research and research management in the information technology industry in which he has published and presented extensively on trends in IT and their affect on business models, processes, and fundamental industry shifts. For several of his client companies, he has managed and developed large-scale Internet-enabled businesses in technology, consumer, and financial industries.

Currently, Dr. Pasik is the chief information officer at the IEEE and teaches at Columbia University.