Mr. W. Dale Young - Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

W. Dale Young,  Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, American Public University System, joined the University in 2010 and leads the university's information technology department with a focus on continuous business process improvement, expanding academic assessment tools, course delivery systems, and improving the student and faculty experience.  

Mr. Young most recently served as President of DECENT LLC, a business and technology services company. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of Systems Alliance, Inc., a Maryland-based business and technology consulting services company, and as CEO of a system management/outsourcing business based in Asia.

Prior to those engagements, Mr. Young enjoyed a 24 year career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC (PwC) with various leadership responsibilities including Vice Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting Korea, where he worked with his Partners to build the PwC Korea Consulting business from 100 to more than 1,400 consultants in three years. Mr. Young's other responsibilities included ORACLE Global Practice Leader and Managing Partner of several PwC practices.

W. Dale Young is a Certified Computing Professional (CCP), earned a B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, and is a graduate of Harvard University's Delivering Information Services leadership development program.