TechVizion was founded by Jim Mazarakis to enable companies to solve their technical challenges. Mr. Mazarakis has nearly thirty years of experience working with Financial Services  and consulting companies. He has served on senior leadership teams, both as  CIO for T. Rowe Price,  and divisional CIO at JP Morgan Investment Management and Private Banking. He has also worked on large scale international projects and merger and acquisition teams at Capital One Financial and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Mazarakis led organizations as large as 1080 people and managed budgets exceeding $240,000,000. His global experience includes having led teams in the US, Japan, Hong Kong, India,  and living and working in London as an expatriate for Goldman Sachs, where he assisted in building a European Client Services support organization.

         Much of Mr. Mazarakis’ IT experience has been in Asset Management, Credit and Risk management, Institutional Prime Brokerage, Client Servicing and Private Banking. Large project leadership positions  have included replacement of trading systems and build out of trading floors, merger integration work for JP Morgan with Chase, participation on Due Diligence teams for several merger and acquisition candidates, entire operational business process outsourcing for mail and check processing from Capital One to FDR and facilities planning for expansion and data center processing.

        Mr. Mazarakis is particularly skilled at implementing best practice disciplines for IT management.  He has set the strategic IT direction for T. Rowe Price by introducing new development methods to reduce time to market on projects by 65 days on average, implemented stricter vendor management practices that have helped reduce spend by approximately $29 million over 3 years, introduced Centers of Excellence for Testing, Project Management and Business Analysis and created an environment that has shown significant associate satisfaction (IT turnover below 7% per annum, 2005-2008) and increased customer satisfaction from 20% exceeding expectations to 52% exceeding customer expectations over a 3 year period.