Michaele James is a partner at StrataFusion with a passion for creating strategic technology solutions focusing on internal/external customer experiences and cost optimization. She directs her technology passion through advocacy as an active Board Member of the San Francisco Society for Information Management (SIM).

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Prior to StrataFusion, Michaele James served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Renew Financial, a leading provider of Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (R-PACE) financing in California and Florida. Her leadership drove the stabilization of the fragile and neglected legacy systems, creating predictable availability, high product quality and the elimination of 30% annual excess tech spend. She led the implementation of a governance structure to complete the two-year deployment of a risky Ukrainian-based SaaS loan origination solution.

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Michaele previously served as Chief Technology Officer at CSAA Insurance Group, successfully creating the enterprise-wide systems foundation for competitive digital solutions. Named one of 2017’s Digital Insurance's Women in Insurance Leadership, she also has been twice recognized as a "Forever Influential Woman in Bay Area Business" by the San Francisco Business Times. Other leadership roles include key contributions at Sun Microsystems (IT VP, CISO, Strategy & Architecture), KPMG, and EDS.

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Michaele earned a Bachelor of Science Business Administration, Quantitative Methods & Statistics from the University of Denver.

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