Taking the Reins: Jorge Segura

POSITION: Vice president of government and utilities on the International Client Service Team, Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va.

Vice president of government and utilities on the International Client Service Team, Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va.May 1 46 Bogota, Columbia Potomac, Md. Married with twin girls and two boys."High Tech, High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning," John Naisbitt Classical, especially Mozart Gabriel Garcia Marquez Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery Tennis, beginner golfer El Chalan, Washington, serves Peruvian food "If you're not part of the solution . . . you're part of the problem."Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Columbia, bachelor of science in economics.Xavier University in Cincinnati, master's of business administration."Find good people and build strong teams."1992-2000: PricewaterhouseCoopers1985-92: Ernst & Young International1981-84: Roy Jorgensen Associates"Booz-Allen & Hamilton is the strongest management and technology consulting firm to the public sector. People don't realize that half or more of our business is in the public sector. What we are doing for the U.S. government, we are going to be doing for other governments all over the world.""Over 20 years of experience dealing with foreign governments and agencies in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, and in dealing with all sorts of cultural and ethnic aspects that need to be taken into account when you serve as an adviser to foreign governments.""Bring e-government to emerging economies and provide assistance to them in the transformation and modernization process.""The technology is not always directly transferable. You have to adapt to the realities of the developing nations, and help in the transformation process, such as modernizing the legal and regulatory framework.""In the public sector, you're always in a fish-bowl environment. The public and interest groups are always monitoring what is being done. Coming up with a sound recommendation and technical solution might be straightforward, but selling the recommendation requires knowing how to deal with the stakeholders. This is true in the United States, Europe and in developing nations."

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