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Rudy Puryear

Director, IT Practice
IT Practice
Bain & Co.

C. R. (Rudy) Puryear is the leader of Bain & Company's Global IT Practice, as well as a Bain partner in Chicago. He has more than 25 years of experience advising senior executives about leveraging technology to enable strategic change.

Prior to Bain, he was president and CEO of Lante Corporation, a leading eCommerce consulting company, where he managed a successful IPO in February 2000.  He also served as Andersen Consulting's (Accenture) global managing partner for eCommerce, and prior to that, was responsible for building and leading the firm's IT strategy practice.

Puryear did his undergraduate and graduate studies in computer science at North Carolina State University.

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