Andy Chen is an accomplished IT leader with extensive experience in optimizing and re-engineering IT strategies across various organizations. Currently serving as Deputy CIO - ICT at the Multinational Force Observers since July 2012, Andy Chen is responsible for overseeing business applications and enterprise infrastructure for 2,500 users. Previously, as Director of Enterprise Business Computing at Weber State University, Andy Chen managed IT strategies for 25,000 students and 2,000 users, ensuring robust infrastructure and services. Andy Chen has also held senior IT leadership roles at FrontRange Solutions, EYERIS, and Verizon, where significant improvements in operations and budget optimization were achieved. Academic credentials include a degree in Management Information Systems from Metropolitan State University of Denver.
MFO - Multinational Force & Observers
The Multinational Force & Observers (MFO), headquartered in Rome, is an independent international organization, created by agreement between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel, with peacekeeping responsibilities in the Sinai. The origins of the MFO lie in Annex I to the 1979 Treaty of Peace between Egypt and Israel, in which the parties undertook to request the United Nations to provide a force and observers to supervise the implementation of the Treaty. When it did not prove possible to obtain Security Council approval for the stationing of a UN peacekeeping force in the Sinai, the parties negotiated a Protocol in 1981 establishing the MFO “as an alternative” to the envisioned UN force.