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Chris Estes | A Tech Leader's Life in Principles and Service

Season 1 | Episode 1
1h 2m | Sep 1, 2022

Welcome to Tech Leaders Talk, where experts and leaders in the wide world of IT discuss the industry and hard-earned career wisdom with your host, Barry Newkirk.

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Today’s guest is Chris Estes. Chris currently serves as the Finance & Technology Leader for the US SLED Market at Erst & Young, where he has national responsibility for go to market efforts in strategy, business case and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He has over thirty years’ experience in manufacturing, financial services, and public sector industries.

Prior to EY, he served as North Carolina’s State Chief Information Officer and Cabinet Secretary of the Department of Information Technology. As a member of the governor’s cabinet, he provided statewide oversight of information systems projects, managed IT services for state agencies, local governments, and schools.

Chris was an Executive Committee Director for the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). He also chaired NASCIO’s National Innovation Community, a coalition of more than 40 states that share strategies for bringing innovation to government technology. He chaired the NC 911 Board and is a past member of the NC Science, Technology and Innovation Board.

He is a recipient of North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine and several CIO of the Year Awards. He is a graduate from Mercer University with a degree in Communications and attended Yale University Strategic Leadership Program. He is an avid water skier.

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