Gary Allen
Senior Vice President, Customer Advocacy
Gary Allen provides the vision behind Sabrix's commitment to customer success and is singularly focused on building deeper customer relationships by earning new levels of trust and commitment and by developing mutual dialogue and partnership with customers. Gary assists customers in implementing and supporting their optimum solution to earn long-term trust and loyalty. Mr. Allen has 20+ years of experience in IT management in the high-tech, health care, and transportation industries, with a strong background in operational effectiveness and information systems delivery.
Prior to founding Sabrix in 1999, Mr. Allen was the Director of Information Systems at Tektronix, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide financial systems. At Tektronix, he led a $55 million initiative to centralize all business systems and replace over 1100 legacy systems in 23 countries with Oracle Financials. He partnered with senior management to establish overall applications and technology strategies to support key business initiatives including inventory management, logistics planning, human resources planning and accounting/decision support systems.
Prior to Tektronix, Mr. Allen led high performing teams at Mentor Graphics, Legacy Health Systems, Intermountain Health Care and Eagle/FB Trucking. He is well known for his innovation, leadership and commitment to excellence. Previously, he was an adjunct faculty member at Portland State University where he taught courses in Communication, Project Management and Information Systems.
Mr. Allen has a bachelor's degree from the University of Phoenix and has completed the executive course "Delivering Information Systems" at Harvard Business School.