VP for Finance
Charles E. Anderson

Charles (Chuck) Anderson has held various positions in business, reengineering, and IT over his career.  He is currently leading a small consulting firm specializing in IT strategy, business process, mergers/acquisitions/divestitures, and organizational development. In his position with Air Products and Chemicals as Director, IT Planning, he was responsible for Strategy/Planning/Control, Strategic Alliances and Sourcing, IT Processes, Continuous Improvement/Benchmarking/Performance Mangement/Scorecarding, Project Services, and Organizational Development/Communications.  He helped transform IT from a collection of regional organizations to a single global team of more than 800 employees worldwide.  IT at Air Products has become an external, service-focused organization with standard global processes, a unified global infrastructure and an aligned approach to performance management to deliver customer value.  In 2000, Air Products was awarded Gartner's Top Performance Award for Leadership in IT Measurement, and in both 2005 and 2006, ranked 1st among chemical companies on the InformationWeek 500 list. Chuck has been a member of SIM’s Advanced Practices Council ® for nine years and has sponsored over a dozen Regional Leadership Forum participants. He served as VP for Enterprise Programs in 2007.