Niel Nickolaisen

Niel Nickolaisen

Utah State University
Director, Enterprise Integrations

Niel Nickolaisen has held technology executive (CIO / CTO / CISO) and operations executive positions (COO); typically in turnaround roles. He has a passion for helping others deliver on what he considers to be the three roles of IT leadership: 1) Enable strategy and 2) Achieve operational excellence and 3) Create a culture of trust and ownership.

His outcomes include the transformation of a manufacturing company into a software company, the rapid modernization of a telecommunications company and the creation of a number of highly-successful technology products and artificial intelligence tools.

He has advised a number of established organizations and start-ups on architecture, agile and lean methods, products and technology.

He holds a MS in Engineering from MIT, a BS in Physics from Utah State University, and an MBA from Utah State University.

He is the author of “The Agile Culture” (2014, Addison Wesley) and “Stand Back and Deliver” (Addison Wesley, 2009). Niel is the winner of several IT leadership awards including the ProphIT award, CIO Magazine 100 and Golden Bridge and, in 2020, was named one of the 20 CIO’s changing the future of technology.

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