Dickson Kasamale
Education
Buffalo State University
Bachelor's Degree, Economics & Finance 1994-08-01 - 1998-08-01
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chief Financial Officer Program, Executive Education 2025-06-01 - 2026-03-01
Northwestern University
Management Accounting Program - Business Analysis, Stragetic Finance -
DePaul University
Coursework in Business Information Technology, Information Technology -
Kingham Hill School
, -
Belmont Abbey School
, -
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
BIIC Executive Leadership Development Program, 2024-10-01 - 2024-10-01Work Experience
The Standard
Current
The Standard
HBR Consulting
2018-05-01 - 2019-01-01
HBR Consulting
McDonald's
2016-07-01 - 2018-04-01
McDonald's
Morningstar
2014-03-01 - 2016-07-01
Morningstar
Health Care Service Corporation
2010-08-01 - 2014-03-01
Health Care Service Corporation
Independent Consultant
2009-08-01 - 2010-08-01
Independent Consultant
Forsythe Technology
2007-01-01 - 2009-07-01
Forsythe Technology
IBM
2003-02-01 - 2006-11-01
IBM
Skills
Summary
At The Standard, my role as AVP of IT Finance & Analytics involves steering financial strategy and fostering value-driven partnerships between our Product, Shared Services and Technology divisions. Acting as a business unit CFO, my focus is on maximizing the success of partnerships through leadership of strategic IT planning, executive decision support, cost optimization and capital investment governance. My extensive experience leading financial strategy for technology-driven enterprises has been instrumental in transforming planning and enabling transparency during a period of significant growth and transformation. Alongside a dedicated businessll partnering and analytics team, we've empowered our organization to align technology investments with business strategy, provided clarity on long term impacts of strategic M&A and related trade-offs, while optimizing the value delivered through our most transformative initiatives in data analytics, API integration, AI and business transformation.
