Patrick Moroney is CEO of StraightArrow Advisory Services, LLC. Our advisors specialize in business, technology and IT staffing, strategy, transformation and execution excellence. He is also President and Founder of Technology Leaders Association (TLA) (www.techleaders.net). Founded in 2001, TLA is a collegial networking organization of 4,000 senior technology executives. He is Chair of the Chicago Advisory Board for non-profit icstars (www.icstars.org) which helps train underserved young adults for career and leadership opportunities in technology, business and community. He is also a Board Member of Advantage Communications Group, an agnostic telecom broker/MSP that does data/voice/network/call-center design & architecture, optimization, execution & implementation, project management, inventory and budget control and invoice validation while saving clients 20-40% all at no cost to clients. (www.advantagecg.com).
In 2022, Mr. Moroney completed 27 years of Chief Information Officer (CIO) service at multiple Fortune 500 companies. He most recently served at Central States Funds, a $10B Taft-Hartley Managed Care Health Insurer and Pension Fund based in Chicago. Previous CIO challenges included the Nutrition and Consumer Products Sector of Monsanto, The ServiceMaster Company, Health Care Service Corporation (5 Blue Cross Blue Shield plans), and Kantar, the global market research conglomerate of WPP. He also served five years in a senior technology advisory role for private equity firm New Mountain Capital supporting CIO-level advising and staffing across twenty portfolio companies.