Mr. Mats A Persson

Mr. Mats Persson is the Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Enterprise Finance in the Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive (DBSAE) at the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Transformation Agency (BTA). Mr. Persson joined the BTA from industry as highly qualified expert in January 2007.  As the PEO he is responsible for delivering the following engagements: Business Enterprise Information Services (Defense Corporate Database, Business Intelligence - Defense Corporate Warehouse, Defense Departmental Reporting System, and Defense Cash Accountability System) and Intragovernmental Value-Added Network projects.  In the next several months the Enterprise Funds Distribution and Defense Agencies Initiative projects will be added to his portfolio.

Mr. Persson has more than 29 years of information technology design, development, testing, implementation, operations and maintenance experience. Prior to joining the DoD, Mr. Persson worked for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for more than 14 years including nine as a Partner. At CSC he worked primarily on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations for finance and human resources functions in Fortune 500 and Government Agencies. Mr. Persson was nominated for the CSC Technical Excellence Award in December 2006, and his team received the award in May 2007.  Mr. Persson has previously worked for Oracle Corporation, including implementing the Oracle Financials ERP suite.

Mr. Persson holds a Master of Science (Chemical Engineering) degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; and a Business Administration degree from the University of Karlstad, Sweden; and was a Rotary Scholar in the Graduate Chemical Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.