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Short Bio

Faisal Hoque is the founder and CEO of BTM Corporation (www.btmcorporation.com). A former senior executive at GE and other multi-nationals, Faisal is an internationally known entrepreneur and thought leader. He has written five management books, established a research think tank, The BTM Institute (www.btminstitute.org), and become a leading authority on CONVERGENCE, innovation, and sustainable growth. For his commitment to business-technology convergence, CIO Quarterly magazine designated him “Mr. Convergence”. In May 2008, the editors of Ziff-Davis Enterprise named him as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology. His latest book, The Power of Convergence (www.thepowerofconvergence.com), is now available.

For more information on Faisal Hoque, please visit http://www.faisalhoque.com.

My Story

It was August of 1986. I had just finished my first summer semester at SIU after arriving from Bangladesh. I was 17 and a student of the College of Engineering. After paying my tuition fee for summer and fall, I had $700.00 to survive, get educated, and move forward with my life! My new American friends suggested I introduce myself to the ‘art and science’ of on-campus ‘janitorial engineering’ – quickly, if wanted to survive! I had the graveyard shift. I got so good at buffing floors (given my obsessive compulsive nature) that before long I was asked to clean the offices of the University officials. Read More >

Extended Bio

Faisal Hoque is the Founder & CEO of BTM Corporation. With more than a decade of R&D and implementation experience, BTM Corporation (www.btmcorporation.com) leads the industry in accelerating business value creation and sustainable growth by implementing transformative management practices of CONVERGENCE. BTM Corporation’s management solutions drive a Concept to Value life-cycle for customers to build better businesses utilizing BTM’s unique processes, software platforms, and cross-disciplinary domain expertise. Collectively, they improve the strategic position, financial performance, operational efficiency, and business innovation needs of large enterprises, government agencies, and small to medium businesses around the globe.

For his commitment to business-technology convergence, CIO Quarterly magazine designated him “Mr. Convergence.” In May 2008, the editors of Ziff-Davis Enterprise named him as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology for helping organizations transform into “whole-brained enterprises.”

A native of Bangladesh, Mr. Hoque came to the United States at the age of seventeen and immediately began working toward achieving the dream that drove him to move. He built his first commercial business technology product at the age of 19 while studying at the University of Minnesota, and went on to hold management positions in Pitney Bowes and then Dun and Bradstreet. In 1994, General Electric (GE) recruited him, then one of its youngest technology executives, to launch a comprehensive B2B electronic commerce spin-off. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded two other award-winning companies prior to the BTM Corporation and is an early pioneer of re-usable software application components.

The founding of BTM Corporation in 1999 turned into a convergence crusade. Along the way, Hoque has written five management books, established a global research think tank – The BTM Institute, and become a leading authority on CONVERGENCE, innovation, and sustainable growth.

His latest book, The Power of Convergence (published by AMACOM – the book publishing division of the American Management Association (AMA), was released in April 2011 and named one of the Best Business Books of 2011 by 800CEOREAD and CIO Insight. Two of his previous books, Sustained Innovation and Winning the 3-Legged Race, were included in the “Top 5 Transformation Books” of the last few years, while Sustained Innovation also ranked in CIO Insight magazine’s “Editor’s Picks: The 10 Best Business Books of 2007”. He is regularly featured in publications such as BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Leadership Excellence, Mergers & Acquisitions, Chief Executive, CIO Magazine, Baseline Magazine, and CIO Update.

For more information on Faisal Hoque, please visit http://www.faisalhoque.com.