John E. Petronzi
Principal

John E. Petronzi, Managing Director of Looking Glass Technology Advisors (www.LookingGlassTA.com), with over thirty years of experience in technology related industries, is a high energy executive with extensive experience in successfully managing technology businesses, developing business value propositions for global Fortune 1000 corporations and leading teams of diverse technology professionals to achieving challenging goals.

His key strengths include:

• Ability to understand and address CXO level executive agendas to offer ideas that lead to large-scale business improvements

• Skilled at communicating with senior management in business related contexts

• Track record of rapidly assessing complex technology and process issues in order to develop solutions to improve the underlying business functions

• Accustomed to accepting difficult challenges and effecting positive change

• Extensive experience in the financial services and telecommunications industries

• Skilled at building "challenge attainment teams" and motivating them to achieve the required goals

Most recently, Mr. Petronzi served as Executive Director of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), where he was responsible for all aspects of multiple client relationships in the New York metropolitan area generating revenues in excess of $150 million per year for EDS. EDS services for these clients included large Infrastructure Outsourcing contracts, complex Business Process Outsource projects, Systems Integrations assignments and Strategic Assessment engagements.

Prior to joining EDS, Mr. Petronzi was responsible for a major technology program for Standard and Poor’s and McGraw-Hill (the parent). This challenging project included the deployment of a 35,000 sq. ft. raised floor technology center designed to support mainframe, mid-range and server-based platforms in a highly reliable environment and the design and deployment of all major technology infrastructures including communications, trading, market data and audio/visual systems. John was accountable for oversight of the $30 million technology build out, the master technology transition plan and transition budget. He participated in all executive steering committee meetings associated with the infrastructure build out, transition planning and transition execution.

Mr. Petronzi’s career includes large systems sales and executive general management responsibilities at several Telecommunications product and services companies and Information Technology companies. He was also the co-founder of a telecommunications consulting firm subsequently sold to EDS in 1988. He has overseen large, complex technology related deployments for Northwestern University, The University of Michigan, The Chicago Board of Trade, J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He holds a BA degree in mathematics from Rutgers University.