Pete Ruys

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Pete Ruys is a mission-critical construction and design executive who leads all aspects of large-scale, complex projects, including data centers, AI sites, and specialty buildings for supply chain initiatives.

From the conception and design of new projects with senior leadership teams to the refitting and repurposing of existing strategic assets, Pete provides full on-site project delivery, design, and construction administration for multi-million-dollar commercial projects, ensuring adherence to quality, budget, timeline, and client satisfaction standards.

Throughout his career, he has directed design and construction administration for over 100 sites, including switch sites, POPs, and data centers for clients such as Google, Equifax, IBM, and major telecom companies. He has also managed large-scale commercial and data center projects, data center conversions, renovation and adaptive reuse projects, Class-A office tower construction, and live data center renovations with upgraded power and cooling systems.

Among his signature projects are warehouse-to-data-center conversions for Google in Georgia, a new ground-up site for Google in Oregon, and Class A tower construction for Atlanta’s award-winning Avalon and Atlantic Station developments.

His firm, Ruys & Company, is regarded as one of Georgia’s top consultancies for mission-critical design and construction projects, and has been recognized in the Atlanta Business Chronicle and Interior Design Magazine for excellence in commercial interior design.

In addition, he has held construction management positions with Hines, QTS Data Centers, Prime Architecture, and Morrison Hershfield.

Pete is a licensed architect and holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Visual Arts in Interior Design from Georgia State University.

His commitment to precision and leadership was shaped early in his career when he served three years in the United States Navy as an Engine Room Officer, Guided Missile Officer, and Assistant Communications Officer while stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Tim Tsouchlos

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Tim Tsouchlos (TOO-close) is a global supply chain executive, strategy, and operations expert who has been leading high-impact initiatives throughout his 20-plus-year career. He builds supply chains that support sales growth, shorten decision cycles, and keep products flowing when competitors face disruptions.

Through his supply chain strategy, procurement transformation, supplier management, process automation, cost modeling and negotiation skills, he transforms supply chain teams and capabilities from a functional cost center to a value-creating growth engine.

Tim draws on decades of leadership across procurement, customer service, and P&Ls. Among his career highlights, he has:

  • Led material planning initiatives to support critical OEM product launches for key customers, including Apple, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco, and Lenovo.
  • Run Global Indirect Procurement Systems Implementations (Coupa / Ariba / Esker) across 25 countries, 65 sites, 7000 users, $1.5B spend, on schedule and exceeding ROI metrics, delivering 7% overall savings annually through over 2500 global sourcing projects.
  • Established the implementation of Strategic Supplier frameworks across 4000 suppliers and $3.5B direct material spend
  • Led SAP implementations, with ownership of PP and SD configuration decisions, including build to forecast and order promising, and
  • Drove Inventory reduction initiatives, improving FG turns by as much as 50%.

Tim’s career began with Molex, a global manufacturer and supplier of electronic, electrical, and fiber optic connectivity systems. He served as Vice President of Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). He also was Vice President of Sales, Personal Devices and held leaderhip positions in Business Development and Customer Service Operations.

Tim holds a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University, and an MBA from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business where he was Summa Cum Laude and a Kozmetzky Award Recipient.

Glenn Carson

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Glenn Carson is a Project Delivery Leader and Strategy & Process Advisor for CXO Partners’ Strategy & Transformation team. He combines strong operational/analytical skills and strategic planning expertise to understand, and improve, clients’ strategies, investments, and initiative execution.

During his distinguished career, Glenn has held a number of critical leadership positions, including VP – Ops Planning & Analysis, Global Operations for Equifax, where he spearheaded strategic planning, operational analytics/reporting, and key project management activities across a $400 million Global Operations organization.

As VP, Six Sigma for CheckFree (now Fiserv), Glenn led the companywide SixSigma program. He also had numerous key Finance and Six Sigma roles at Home Depot and GE.

Glenn is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and his career has included roles in North America, Japan, and India.

Key skillsets include:
• Operations Management
• Strategy / Strategic Planning
• Business Process Improvement
• Lean / Six Sigma
• Project Management
• Change Management

Glenn received a bachelors degree in Finance (with Honors) from Michigan State University.

Tracy Deuell

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Tracy Deuell is an experienced direct and interim CIO having supported several companies in their transformation or turnaround efforts. He brings more than 30 years of experience with a proven track record of developing and delivering aligned IT strategic solutions to achieve desired business outcomes.

Most recently, Tracy has worked as an independent consultant providing Interim and Fractional CIO services to numerous mid-market clients in the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast.  He has provided transformative leadership across many industries and client types including Industrial, Healthcare, Financial Services, Startups, and large Non-Profits. As an Interim leader, Tracy provided valuable short term IT leadership while assisting clients in building and recruiting for long-term leadership and service solutions.

In addition to his consulting experience, Tracy was CIO with Electrical Equipment Company, where he developed a “cloud first” strategy and revamped the entire infrastructure to enable acquisition growth and improve business process enablement across 16 locations in the Southeast.

Tracy has served in several IT executive roles as well including Program CIO with Randstad Technologies / Genworth and Chief of Staff – Technology Services with Capital One.

Tracy has served on many advisory boards including Infor’s Global Cloud Customer Council, Infor’s Distribution Products Council, Atlantic Union Bank Architectural Review Board, and Cloud Advisory Board’s Service (Multiple Companies).