James Champy

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Mr. James Champy serves as a Board Member, Presiding Director & Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at Analog Devices. Mr. Champy retired in 2010 as Vice President of the Dell/Perot Systems business unit of Dell, Inc., a computer and technology services company. Mr. Champy was previously a Vice President and the Chairman of Consulting at Perot Systems Corporation, an information technology services company, from 1996 to 2009. Prior to his work at Dell/Perot Systems, Mr. Champy had co-founded Index, an early developer of large, complex banking systems. Index was eventually acquired by the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), where Mr. Champy headed its consulting practice. Mr. Champy served as a member of the Board of Directors of Perot Systems Corporation from 1996 to 2004. He is the author of several business books and is a Life Member of the MIT Corporation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Board of Trustees. He also serves as the Chair of the Dean's Advisory Council for MIT's School of Engineering. Mr. Champy earned his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School.