Fran Dramis

F.A. (“Fran”) Dramis is the CEO of F. Dramis LLC, a technology consulting and investment firm. He provides support, advice and capital to businesses providing web services, data security and IT infrastructure management. Mr. Dramis currently serves on the private company boards of Damballa, NanoLumens and Urjanet. In addition, he is on the advisory boards of Virima, Voyager Capital, Diabetech, Zixi LLC and Medify, Inc.

He served previously on the private boards of RealOps Inc., US Oncology (Chair of Technology Committee) and IOCOM, as well as on the public boards of WebMethods, Inc., Avocent Corporation (Chair of Nominating & Governance committee, member of Audit committee and member of Strategy & Acquisition committee), Ditech Networks (Chair of Nominating & Governance committee, member of Compensation committee) and Netezza (member of Audit committee).

Mr. Dramis was formerly the Chief Information, Ecommerce and Security Officer for BellSouth. He joined BellSouth Corporation in 1998. During his tenure, BellSouth’s IT and Security groups were nationally recognized as top organizations in their fields by receiving the following awards:

• Computerworld’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
• Top 10 in Diversity category – Computerworld’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT (2004)
• SecurE-Biz Leadership Award
• InformationWeek 500 Most Innovative Users of Technology (Ranked #10 in 2005)
• CIO Magazine’s Enterprise Value Award in 2005

Before joining BellSouth, Mr. Dramis founded CIO Strategy, Inc., an information technology consulting firm. At that firm, Mr. Dramis led technology transformation efforts at Citibank, Coopers & Lybrand, NASD and Bankers Trust. Prior to CIO Strategy, Mr. Dramis was managing director and CIO at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Dramis also served as president and CEO of Network Management Inc., and president and chief operating officer of Telic Corporation. Early in his career, Mr. Dramis worked with AT&T, including Bell Labs, rising to the position of executive director of information product management.

As one of the country’s top IT leaders, Mr. Dramis has been recognized by a variety of publications as a top CIO. His awards include:

• CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 Award in 1999
• CIO Magazine’s Top 100 Leaders for the Next Millennium in 2000
• Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders in 2002

Mr. Dramis is also an author of two books and a regular speaker at technology and leadership forums.