American Management Association Names Lou Schuyler Chief Information Officer

NEW YORK — American Management Association (AMA) has named Ms. Lou Schuyler its new Chief Information Officer. Lou is responsible for information technology initiatives and personnel throughout AMA’s United States operations.

“Lou brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from IBM and The McGraw-Hill Companies to American Management Association, and I am delighted to have her join our team,” said Edward T. Reilly, AMA’s president and CEO, in announcing her appointment. “Lou is an excellent listener, a logical thinker and a successful team builder.”

In 24 years with IBM, Lou served in a variety of analytical, technical and management positions, including systems programming, application development, operations research, market research, forecasting and business planning. She then held executive positions in the corporate and information technology offices of The McGraw-Hill Companies including vice president of technology for The McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company. She went on to launch a diverse and highly successful management consulting firm, Stone Circle Consulting, Inc.

Lou graduated from Brown University in 1968 with an ScB in Applied Mathematics and earned an MSE in Operations Research at Columbia University in 1975. She is Secretary of the Westchester-Fairfield Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants. She is a resident of Larchmont, N.Y.

American Management Association is the world’s leading membership-based management development organization. It is distinguished by the quality of its faculty of global business practitioners, the practical, action-oriented focus of its learning programs and the dynamic interactive nature of its courses. AMA offers a full range of business education and management development programs for individuals and organizations in the Americas, Asia and Europe. More than 700,000 AMA customers and members a year, including 486 of the Fortune 500 companies and many federal agencies, learn superior business skills and best management practices through a variety of seminars, conferences and executive forums, e-learning and self-study courses, books, research studies, and on-site and customized learning solutions.

For additional information please consult AMA’s Web site at www.amanet.org.