Joel Dehlin
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Joel Dehlin is the Chief Technology Officer for iQor
IQor
iQor, Inc., based in New York City , is a business process outsourcing company that provides call center services -- including customer care, customer retention and revenue recovery services to large and mid-sized companies...

, a business process outsourcing
Business process outsourcing
Business process outsourcing is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions to a third-party service provider. Originally, this was associated with manufacturing firms, such as Coca Cola that outsourced large segments...

 (BPO) company. Formerly, he was the Chief Information Officer
Chief information officer
Chief information officer , or information technology director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals...

 for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joel left this position effective August 1st, 2011. Prior to working for the LDS Church, he worked at Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 for 10 years in various roles, at Arthur Andersen
Arthur Andersen
Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations...

, and at Novell
Novell
Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...

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While at Microsoft, Joel worked on the original microsoft.com product, in the mobile devices division, and as the executive producer and co-designer of Microsoft Allegiance. He was also one of the co-creators of Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of gesture recognition. This could involve the motion of hands or physical objects. It was...

. He has 15 patents.

He has co-authored the book Object Programming with Visual Basic 4 and Microsoft Office for Windows 95 and currently serves as a member of the Gartner CIO Research Board and the KPCG CIO Stratgey Exchange.

He is Chairman of the Board for Rhomobile, a cross-platform mobile development tools company.

Joel lives in Utah with his wife Lani and their seven children.

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