Wei Tang

Executive summary

Wei Tang is a Managing Director in the Enterprise Technology Strategy and Innovation practice Grant Thornton’s in Advisory Services. He leads the enterprise strategy practice at Grant Thornton LLP. He advises Grant Thornton’s offices and clients on best practices in strategic planning, governance, Technology Business Management (TBM), enterprise architecture, portfolio management, IT financial management, and program management. He ensures fast, predictable, and uninterrupted flow of value delivery to the business while minimizing the impact of disruption.

Wei has more than 20 years of experience in managing IT portfolios and programs for his CIO clients with an IT budget ranging from $40 million to $4 billion. He helps his clients to achieve their business goals by defining strategies, formulating portfolios, prioritizing IT investments, justifying budget and allocating resources.

He facilitates IT governance boards to analyze trade-off of IT investments and measure performance of those investments. He implements governance structures, cost models, Technology Business Management (TBM) Framework, processes and tools to improve organizations’ efficiency.

He develops guidance to help his clients to conduct business case analysis and implement agile development methodology.

He manages large-scale IT programs focused on integration of business and IT with outstanding record of implementing new business concepts and delivering innovative business solutions.

Prior to his work at Grant Thornton, Wei was a Director at Serco and an Associate Director at Fujitsu.

Wei’s clients have included federal and state government agencies, and organizations within the financial services, air transportation, healthcare, insurance, and non-profit industries.

Professional qualifications and memberships

• Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI
• Certified Scrum Master (SMC), Scrum Alliance
• ITIL Foundations Certified
• Certified TBM Executive (CTBME), TBM Council

Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA), from Smith Business School, University of Maryland.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, Southern New Hampshire University.