Barb Kunkel

Chief Information Officer (vCIO) at CoreManaged

Ensuring a competitive advantage for fast-paced professional services firms is what I do best as an Award-winning Senior IT Executive and Change Agent. Senior Management, peers, clients and reports will tell you that I focus on improving organizational effectiveness by consistently aligning IT with business objectives.

In doing so I’ve developed and led high-performance organizations that have enabled the leadership of global, multi-practice law firms to realize cost savings, accelerate performance, and sustain strategic flexibility while providing a competitive advantage to the organization.

As a leader at the nexus of business and technology, I’ve effectively translated business drivers to a technical audience and technical concepts to a business audience while clearly demonstrating IT’s value to the business.

With more than two decades of proven leadership in three of the country’s most highly regarded Law Firms I’ve freed professionals to deliver real value to the customer by improving knowledge management through application of data science techniques that automate workflows and free professionals to focus on highly complex issues.

Working together with the business my teams and I have anticipated disruptions in the business model precipitated by today’s digital economy, and drove improvement in knowledge management, legal staffing, service delivery, and pricing models.