Shepperd Chao

Shepperd Chao founded CoyoteWorks Technologies Inc. in June 1997. As the company's Managing Principal Shepperd leads CoyoteWorks Technologies Inc. in its mission to help its Global 1000 clients leverage technology into a seamless innovative advantage delivering long-term sustainable economic growth. As the transformation leader, he works with strategy, operations, and alignment leaders to ensure that CoyoteWorks Technologies Inc. is at the leading edge of developments that continue to enhance value for clients by delivering fast, quality service across all areas of business and geographies.

Shepperd joined CoyoteWorks Technologies Inc. from Akili System Group where he was a Sr. Management Consultant. He was responsible for risk management and turnaround of problem projects and organizations. The responsibility included consolidating Akili's enterprise business modeling and service delivery. His team played a key role in repositioning Akili as a leader in IT and Management Consulting, as well as driving increased revenue, market share and profitability during his tenure.

Previously, Shepperd worked for Optimus Consulting Group, TRW, Caltech, UCLA Medical Center. He was responsible for assessing and mitigating risk for multi-billion dollar programs. He provided business process modeling, architecture, program management and technical hands-on support to turnaround high profile problem programs. At TRW, Shepperd developed an agile end-to-end Full Lifecycle Business Transformation Methodology that integrated Information Strategy Planning, Business Process Reengineering, and Agile Software Development. This Methodology was nominated for the TRW Chairman's Award for Innovation. Shepperd's Clients represent a broad range of industries including Healthcare, Insurance, Telecommunication, Wireless Carriers, Oil and Gas, Banking, Finance, Public Utilities, DPS, USAM and USMC.

Shepperd received his BS and MS in Engineering and Applied Sciences from California Institute of Technology. He left his Ph.D. program at Caltech to help CoyoteWorks Technologies Inc. at TRW Space and Defense lead the development of an image recognition supercomputer and a fast search engine.