Brian Alikhani - A recognized technology leader known for crafting requisite strategic vision to achieve business goals, Brian Alikhani, offers a unique blend of business acumen, technical knowledge, global team building, and IT solutions development credited with strong ROI and operational improvements at AVID Center. As the Head of Global IT, Brian Alikhani has built an agile IT organization that constantly delivers results by aligning technology initiatives with business goals, with substantial improvements to service delivery, standardization, and business performance.   With a reputation for judicious use of resources and cost containment, Brian Alikhani's work has been instrumental in providing AVID Center with leading e-business strategy, direct marketing, web-enabled initiatives, and business intelligence capabilities critical to success of company’s performance. The e-commerce initiatives improved customer service, client relations, and employee support to enable them to do their jobs more effectively. In addition, he has effectively raised IT’s visibility within the organization by bringing technology decisions and initiatives to the forefront of crucial Executive committee discussions.   As the former Head of Global IT at Corsair Memory, Brian was an integral contributor to exponential revenue growth from $60M to $650M annually by ensuring top-tier technology operations and performance across all business areas in the United States, Asia, and Europe. At Corsair, Brian Alikhani's most significant achievement was the global enterprise rollout of Oracle E-business Suite solution in record time that resolved supply chain needs and replaced several outdated applications requiring extensive rework, and created a fully integrated system supporting a “one customer” approach within multiple currencies and language requirements.   With focus on strategic solutions analysis to further business goals, he also shepherded business process improvements that brought new perspective to the relative success of business management practices and capital expenditures. He served in this role from 2006-2010.   From 2000 to 2007, Brian Alikhani served as the GM of IT at Lexar Media then a growing company in nand-flash memory products employing 700 employees worldwide. During his 7 years at Lexar, he was instrumental to successful spin-off from parent organization and technology build-out. He worked on the management and delivery of information technology services to support business needs across corporate enterprise and focused on reducing manufacturing costs, and improving business productivity through enterprise architecture, and technology governance practices.   Brian Alikhani has demonstrated a career-long commitment to nurturing talent and potential in others. He has always been a major proponent of employee development and has sponsored employee mentoring programs. In 2005, Brian received Faculty Award from UOP for his work to encourage students and young emerging talent to achieve their fullest potential.   Brian is a member of CIO council, Association of Information Technology Professionals and Oracle High-tech council. He was recently honored with the Top Ten Leaders and Change Agents Award at the Oracle’s Leaders Circle.     Brian has a doctoral degree in Computer Science from Colorado Technical University, School of Engineering. Brian holds a MBA degree in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix in San Jose and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from San Jose State University. Brian has a certification in ITIL / V3 and in-depth understanding of TOGAF, and COBIT.   <meta name="google-site-verification" content="0Jg3Y2H-qlD3nrWT9hRcTBRjZDfM2l5HQsp1rAfir_8" />

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