David Bergen Levi

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David Bergen -- Successful CIO and CIO Advisory
Experience
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Ranked as one of the top 100 CIOs by
Computerworld and Consumer Product Magazine,
David Bergen is a Managing Director at Alvarez
Marsal Business Consulting. Alvarez Marsal was
founded in 1983 by Tony Alvarez II and Bryan
Marsal in an effort to provide hands-on support
and advice to companies facing operational and
financial problems.
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The company has since emerged as a leading
independent global professional services provider
that holds reputation for providing leadership,
problem solving and value creation to robust and
underperforming firms across the industry
spectrum. The company deals with a wide range of
issues, with focus on maximizing the enterprise
value.
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A progressive leader and an experienced CIO,
David Bergen has developed core competencies of
process improvement, portfolio and progam
management, organizational development, IT
Strategy, outsourcing management. He has served
as the Senior Vice President/Global CIO of Levi
Strauss Co. from 2000 to 2008.
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While holding this position, David was
responsible for coordinating business and IT
functions across 25 sites worldwide under the
capital and operating budget of over 200M. He
implemented retail platforms, global SAP and
e-commerce capabilities and directed transition
to standardized business processes.
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He sustained 90 percent supply-chain fulfillment
by improving supply and demand planning of Levi
Strauss Co., and implemented data warehousing
and regional data marts. In addition to Levi
Strauss Co., David Bergen has also worked as
the Senior Vice President/Global CIO at Duty Free
Shoppers and led over 250 employees in 9
countries while leading business simplification
effort.
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Moreover, he has also worked with The Gap, Inc.,
San Francisco, CA as a Programmer Analyst, System
Analyst and Program Manager, from 1981 to 1994
and spearheaded the implementation of high
transaction IBM POS (Point of Sale) system
worldwide. He produced retail solutions including
inventory management, sale audit and price
management systems.
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While working as a System Engineer at Electronic
Data Systems, San Francisco, he completed a
software engineering training program and helped
in the development of worldwide supply systems
and logistic systems for APL. David Bergen holds
a Bachelor of Science degree in Management
Information Systems from the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, NV and has attended
specialized training in Program Management and
Project Management.
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