Technology Magazine September 2019 | Page 69

Sean Thompson

Sean Thompson

EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Sean Thompson is a Seattle-based information technology and services executive with over 20 years experience in both large F500 companies and startups . Sean spent the first decade of his career at Deloitte Consulting where he managed service line delivery in areas such as ERP / CRM ( SAP ), Business Intelligence , Process Reengineering , Risk Analysis and M & A advisory . Sean was rated in the top 1 % of his class and was a member of Deloitte ’ s Senior Management Advisory Committee . Sean then spent three years with two startups . He was part of the pre-IPO team at drugstore . com where he was director of M & A integration . Sean then moved to Nimble Technology where he was Vice President of Sales and Services prior to the sale of Nimble to Actuate . Sean then spent almost 10 years with Microsoft half of which was spent managing product marketing teams and half spent architecting joint ventures with Microsoft ’ s largest enterprise partnerships . Sean was rated top 3 % of his class at Microsoft and was a member of Microsoft ’ s senior leader bench program . Sean then Co-Founded a Natural Language Software , Nuiku , that uses natural language processing and data intelligence to power a revolutionary new , natural user experience . Nuiku was sold to Nortek to drive Nortek ’ s home automation voice experience . Sean received his Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University and his Bachelors of Business Administration with high honors from Gonzaga University . Sean holds a CPA in the State of Washington . Sean has also served as VP of both Gonzaga and Harvard University Northwest Chapter Boards and is the Founder and past Vice President of the Northwest Chapter of the Montana Ambassadors .
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