Bipin Patel is CIO of ProQuest CSA, an information company, having recently retired as Ford Motor Company's North American CIO after 26 years working for Ford in Europe, Asia, and the US. Mr. Patel oversaw IT for product development, manufacturing, marketing/sales, and service operations. Prior to this appointment, he was responsible for the creation of Ford's offshore Application Development Service in Chennai, India. From December 1999 to November 2003, Mr. Patel was Director of Management Systems overseeing IT for HR, healthcare, finance, and accounting. His responsibilities included the launch of the global intranet, the development and execution of the B2E strategy, and driving a common global accounting platform. Mr. Patel has also served as IT Manager for Asia Pacific Operations overseeing IT strategy for the region, and the launch of enterprise-wide IT systems for Asia Pacific and the emerging markets. He joined Ford of Europe in 1981 as an undergraduate trainee serving in a variety of IT positions in Ford Europe until 1996. Mr. Patel, a British citizen, was born and schooled in Tanzania. He has a BSc (honors) in math from the University of Greenwich in London, UK. He can be reached at bipin01 at gmail.com.