Alana Ward Robinson is an entrepreneur with significant experience increasing value in organizations with breakthrough solutions to support new and changing operating business models. In her corporate career, she has built successful business-aligned, high-performing tech organizations within publicly traded companies. She is recognized for her expertise in influencing and gaining consensus for strategic enterprise Technology Investments and IT Governance by obtaining buy-in from peer leadership on mutual success metrics and/or minimizing silos to streamline workflow.
Ms. Robinson founded Robinson Group Consulting (RGC) in 2004. RGC is a management consulting firm which specializes in developing roadmaps to help organizations think strategically about technology investments and build operational capacity for growth. The services provided by the RGC team include Interim CIO leadership, enterprise-level technology assessments, strategy & implementation of digital solutions that leverage technology as a platform for innovation. RGC’s clients include a broad range of organizations that have valued the agnostic technology advice, as well as the consistently predictable RGC delivery methodology. In addition to the RGC client-base, Ms. Robinson also serves as a volunteer technology advisor to multiple startup entrepreneurs.
Alana is an enterprise-oriented CIO who began her career at IBM Corporation. Over 18-years at IBM, she held a variety of roles with increasing responsibility ranging from Systems Engineer to Branch Manager. At Public Service Company of Colorado, Alana was recruited to establish a Sales and Marketing division. As a senior executive, Robinson led business large-scaled transformation initiatives within Pace Membership Warehouse (CIO), Coors Brewing Company (CIO), Sara Lee Hosiery (CIO), and at RR Donnelley (SVP – Manufacturing Operations).
She is experienced in board governance of civic and not-for-profit organizations, including: World Food Program HQ (Rome, Italy) – IT Advisory Board; Brighter Horizon Foundation (Board Chair); Girls Inc. of Chicago (Board Secretary); Black Wealth Summit (Program Architect). Since 1994, she served as Founder and member of the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF).
Ms. Robinson attended Harvard University’s Executive Advanced Management Program, where she was elected President of her class. She received a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Grambling State University, Grambling, LA. She and her husband, E. O’Neal Robinson, reside in Irving, TX.