James K. Watson, Jr., founded Doculabs on three simple principles: objective recommendations, analysis grounded by benchmark data, and a specialization in content-based applications. Under Watson's leadership, Doculabs has established itself as the premier consultancy in the enterprise content management ( ECM ) market, engaged by most of the Fortune 100 over its 15-year history.

Watson also serves in the role of executive sponsor or lead consultant on numerous Doculabs consulting engagements. He brings expertise to architecting enterprise strategies to address customer communications, compliance, and workplace collaboration., and has worked with many clients in the insurance and financial services industries to address their needs to lower transaction costs. He has also applied his expertise to create the industry's only peer-group benchmarking service that examines the metrics associated with deploying and managing ECM systems on an enterprise level.

As a spokesman for Doculabs' in-depth perspective on the industry, Watson leads Doculabs' efforts in fulfilling speaking requests for numerous technology and business conferences. He also regularly provides articles or commentary on the industry's key topics and issues in leading technology publications.

Prior to forming Doculabs in 1993, Watson held positions within the printing systems group at Xerox Corporation and the mainframe division of NCR Corporation.

Watson has served as a board member of the Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) and the Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM), and was the chair of the Emerging Technology Advisory Group (EMTAG). In 2000, he was recognized as one of Crain's Chicago Business' “40 Under 40,” highlighting his achievements in the Midwestern business community.

B.S., Business Administration, University of Colorado

M.B.A., University of Chicago

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

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Jeetu Patel
Executive Vice President

Jeetu Patel is Executive Vice President of Doculabs, Inc., a Chicago-based consulting firm that focuses on strategic issues of content management technologies. As one of Doculabs’ principals, Patel has been instrumental in the firm’s growth and success over the past 15 years, setting direction for the firm and working with hundreds of Global 2000 organizations. The majority of his time is spent working with CIOs, general counsel, and other key line-of-business executives, assisting them in developing technology strategies to address their content- and process-related challenges. A recognized industry expert in the enterprise content management (ECM) market space, Patel is quoted in a number of the leading industry publications and provides frequent industry updates and trend analysis as a keynote speaker for many of the major industry events.

Within the community of technology suppliers, Patel is acknowledged by major infrastructure providers such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Open Text, and others for his expertise and apprehension of the macro trends operating in the ECM space. As a recognized thought leader in the ECM market space, Patel is also conversant with members of the venture community, bringing to these relationships a deep understanding of the impact that strategic technology investments made today can have on the future.

B.S., Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago

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