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Scott Snyder, Ph.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer Dr. Snyder is the President and CEO of Decision Strategies International, a leading strategy firm focused on increasing the Strategic Aptitude of organizations through education, consulting, and tools. He has over 19 years of experience in business leadership, strategic planning, decision support systems, and technology management for both Fortune 500 companies and start-up ventures. Dr. Snyder has held executive positions with several Fortune 500 companies including GE, Martin Marietta, and Lockheed Martin.. He has also started business ventures in software including OmniChoice, a CRM/Analytics software applications provider, where he served as CTO and CEO, and was selected as a candidate for Entrepreneur of the Year for the Philadelphia Region. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 clients on business and technology strategy including GE, CVS, AT&T, Sprint, Cingular, Accenture, ConocoPhillips, NCR, Verizon, Echostar, Exelon, Microsoft, DuPont, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens, National Grid and Bank of Montreal as well as government organizations such as the FAA, DoD, DARPA, DLA, NASA, NSA, and the US Navy.Dr. Snyder recently founded and serves as the part-time CEO of a new subsidiary of DSI, Strategic Radar, which provides software-based solutions for monitoring and adapting to weak signals in the strategic environment to help companies respond to new changes more effectively. He has also contributed as a co-author to the recently released Future of BioSciences 2020 Report from DSI and the Wharton School. Dr. Snyder is a Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School, an Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and has lectured at MIT and RIT on Decision-making, Business and IT Strategy, Telecommunications, Product Design and Development, and Business Intelligence. He sits on the Advisory Board of Safeguard Scientific and the Boards of two Technology-based Non-Profits, Quantum Works and Mentor IT. He holds a patent for on-line decision aids and has been quoted as a thought leader in numerous publications including the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Phone +, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal. Dr. Snyder earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania and has an executive degree from USC in Telecommunications Management. |
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