


Richard A. Lahey
Rich Lahey is a founder and principal consultant at Alleyn Associates where he focuses on
the intersection of business and information technology. His areas of expertise include IT
strategy, IT/business alignment, IT metrics, business case development, application portfolio
strategy, data center strategy, data center consolidation strategy, program and project
management and change management.
Mr. Lahey has more than twenty years experience in information technology across a variety
of industries and roles. He founded Alleyn Associates in 2005 after leaving Gartner, Inc.,
where he was a vice president in the consulting practice.
At Gartner, Mr. Lahey led consulting projects in application portfolio strategy, data center
consolidation, data center strategy, sourcing strategy, IT benchmarking, and process,
project and program management assessment. Prior to Gartner, Mr. Lahey was a regional
director for application service provider USinternetworking, where led a professional services
practice implementing and supporting ERP, CRM, spend management and e-commerce
software from PeopleSoft, Siebel, Ariba, Microsoft and Broadvision.
Mr. Lahey's experience also includes project and outsourcing management at EDS, project
management, business process design and systems integration at Andersen Consulting
(Accenture), and Oracle Financials and Manufacturing implementation as an IT director.
Mr. Lahey earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Master of
Science degree in Management (MBA equivalent) from the Sloan School of Management at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is based in Sunnyvale, California.
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