Manfredo Short Biography 1.19.13

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Joel A. Manfredo
joel.manfredo@cox.net Chief Information Officer (949) 606-3072
Joel is a multi-disciplinary executive offering leadership and vision based upon over thirty years of
experience working for major organizations in a broad spectrum of functions. He’s spent the last 16
years in transformational Chief Information Officer roles and the prior 18 years in many functions in
commercial real estate including leasing, finance, development, operations, marketing, securities,
construction, energy and utilities. He is known for the 3Ts: Transformation, Turnaround and
Technology.
As the Chief Technology Officer of the County of
Orange, Joel ran an IT Service Delivery business
for the central shared service IT function. Results
included increasing customer satisfaction by a
sustained 16% over three years and achieving a
top 10% industry benchmark for IT operations
while simultaneously reducing costs by 27%.
Operationally, he improved the Power Usage
Effectiveness (PUE) of the County’s 66,000
square foot data center by 10%... In the CIO role
at The Irvine Company results include managing
hyper growth while quadrupling output and
achieving technical reliance on system-generated
financial statements… At The Rouse Company,
Joel executed a five year IT transformation
including ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence and e-
Learning; the program was delivered under
budget, on time and on scope with hard cost
savings twice the pro-forma realized one year
ahead of schedule.
Also at The Rouse Company, he orchestrated a $9.1 million turnaround of a large commercial real
estate business including executing energy saving initiatives that resulted in $4.0 million in annual
energy cost savings and $3.0 million in utility company rebates. Joel consulted with the EPA in the
early 1990s and was instrumental in the applicability of the EnergyStar program to commercial real
estate; he had one of the first EnergyStar buildings in the US. He was named one of the top 100 CIOs
in the US acknowledging work in Green Technology and received a Digital Impact Award for lifetime
technology achievement in real estate.
Joel currently serves on seven Boards: Society of Information Management, Technology Business
Management Council, CleanTechOC, Executive Next Practices, UCLA’s IS Associates, Corporate
Committee of the Dean’s Leadership Circle at UC Irvine and the Trojan Club of South Orange County.
He is also a mentor in the Executive MBA programs at UC Irvine and Chapman University. He
frequently lectures at professional events and at academic institutions.
Education: Master of Science, Finance magna cum laude Loyola College
Master of Business Administration magna cum laude Loyola College
Bachelor of Science cum laude Lehigh University