Greg Meyers, 2013 Honoree
- Title
- Vice president, IT
- Employer
- Biogen Idec
- Location
- Weston, Mass.
- A recent example of your leadership style:
- I consider myself a coach who needs to bring his best listening to each and every conversation. It's through powerful listening, not speaking, that inspiration happens.
- Skills you'll hire for this year:
- Business intelligence, leaders for IT outside the U.S. and professionals who can work with third-party providers.
- A career highlight:
- When I was a junior consultant, the partner who was my boss got ill right before his keynote to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. I had to fill in for him, and there I was, at age 23, speaking to a room full of prime ministers and some of Europe's smartest economists.
- Coolest current project:
- Custom-built CRM tool built in HTML 5.0 on the iPad for our European salesforce.
- Quick ROI project:
- Converting from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook 2010. Read the full profile