HP Fellow and Chief Technologist, Communications, Media & Entertainment and Consumer and Transportation Industries
Douglas D. Chey is the chief technologist for the Communications, Media & Entertainment (CME) and Consumer & Transportation (C&T) Industry groups at HP Enterprise Services. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring close alignment with the service lines, regions and industries to drive technology and offering strategies, provide a proactive feedback loop between customer’s needs and the future direction of the HP Enterprise Services portfolio offerings, and support innovation programs and account engagement activities. He is also an HP Fellow. The title of Fellow is awarded to the corporation’s most innovative thought leaders in recognition of their exceptional achievements.
Chey has led pursuits, system implementations, corporate transformations, and outsourcing engagements (ITO and applications) at many of HP’s most high-profile clients. He is commonly used as the “tip of the spear” to ascertain a toehold for HP and to grow the business. His most notable direct clients have included Molson/Coors, The Coca Cola Company, the Walt Disney Company, Delta Airlines, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Nike.
He chairs the HP Enterprise Services CI&R and Transportation CTO Roundtables and is a voting member of HP’s Technology Career Path program for Distinguished Technologists and Master Level Technologists. He has written several white papers for HP on Cloud Computing and developed much of the thought leadership around CME transformation.
Chey has also had a notable career outside of HP. He has previously been the divisional CIO for Sony Pictures Entertainment, the CTO and CIO for Cendant Software (now known as Activision Blizzard makers of World of Warcraft), vice president of New Media for the Warner Music Group and head of technology for Lucas Digital Limited, which includes Lucasfilm’s special effects firm Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) and Skywalker Sound. Additionally, he was SVP of IT for the alliance marketing division of Cendant Corporation (parent of Cendant Software), where he led all of the company’s web sites including www.avis.com, www.match.com, www.citysearch.com, www.daysinn.com, and www.coldwellbanker.com .
While at Sony, he created the first movie downloading service, known as Movielink. The ground-breaking project was the first initiative in which all five major studios co-funded and collaborated to develop technologies to distribute film content on the Internet. The Movielink project later won the President's Award from Sony Corporation. He is the named patent holder of several inventions relating to digital downloading, caching and distribution.
Chey serves on the President’s Advisory Council of Claremont McKenna College; the Board of Visitors of the Drucker Business School; and the leadership council for the Information and Computer Science Department of the University of California, Irvine.
Douglas Chey holds a B.A. degree in Economics and a B.S. degree in Information Systems from Claremont McKenna College, and a Master of Science degree in Management of Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University (Drucker).
