DONALD R. HOLLIS Donald R. Hollis is President of DRH Strategic Consulting, Inc. which assists clients in developing strategies for leveraging technology and quality practices to improve payments related transaction-processing products as well as in finding appropriate acquisitions.
His clients have included NCR, Tandem, Unisys, Cash Station, First National Bank of Chicago, S.W.I.F.T., Edify Corporation, Deluxe Corporation, SAIC and others. From 1981 to 1996 he was an Executive Vice President of First Chicago Corporation responsible for its technology leadership and its commercial transaction processing businesses.
He continues to work closely with its ANEXSYS subsidiary. Mr. Hollis was a Vice President and Group Executive of Chase Manhattan Bank from 1971 to 1981. He also served as a Director, General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of Interactive Data Corporation, a Chase subsidiary, and as a Director of a number of other technically based Chase subsidiaries. He was frequently involved in buying and selling I.T. companies. From 1959 through 1967, he held various data processing responsibilities at the Glidden Company, and became Director of Corporate Systems for SCM Corporation when Glidden and Smith-Corona Marchant merged in 1967.
Mr. Hollis serves on the Executive Committee of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Board of Trustees and the IITRI Board of Governors. He is on the Board of Trustees of Advocate HealthSystem.
Mr. Hollis is a Director of Deluxe Corporation, TriStrata Security, Inc., SensCom, QuickStream Software, Global CommerceZone, Inc. and Open Port Technology.
Mr. Hollis has served on the Board of Advisors for Bankers Magazine and on the New York Federal Reserve Banks Payments Risk Committee.
He is a former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Bankers Association's Operations and Automation Division, is past President of the National Association for Check Safekeeping, past Chairman of the American Management Associations Information Technology Counsel and has served on CBOE, ABA, NACHA and BankWire task forces.
Mr. Hollis graduated from Kent State University with a B.S. in business administration. |