Gordon J. Bruce

Gordon Bruce (M.B.A.) is well known in the "tech" industry. Gordon is the Director of the Department of Information Technology and CIO for the City and County of Honolulu, the 11th largest City in the United States. He is also the Managing Member - GJB and Associates LLC, an international consulting firm providing strategic planning, business process engineering, systems integration, research, teleport consulting/management, and security consulting in government, healthcare, education, trust, commercial real estate and non-profit corporations. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific University and the Japan-America Institute of Management Science. He is the co-founder and host of ThinkTechHawaii Radio, on Hawaii Public Radio, an affiliate of National Public Radio and a co-founder/regular contributor to ThinkTechHawaii a non-profit corporation that promotes technology entrepreneurship. (wwwthinktechhawaii.com).

He has a Masters Degree (graduating with honors) in International Business from Hawaii Pacific University. He has over 25 years of experience in the tech industry. In his past he was the Chief Information Officer for the Estate of James Campbell, and helped pioneer that organization's vision of a teleport and tech park in Kapolei that was awarded International Teleport Development of the Year in 2000 - the first US teleport to receive this prestigious award. He is the former CIO of the Queen's Medical Center one of the top 200 Non-profit hospitals in the United States.

He is contributing Author, Information Technology Parks of the Asia Pacific: Lessons in the Regional Digital Divide, has been featured in Telcom Plus International and has lectured about the technology industry at many organizations and institutions, including Oxford University in England, and most recently South Korea.