David Royer is President & CEO Royer Systems Integration (Royer SI), a systems integrator founded in 2004, with offices in the United States and Brazil. An industry expert with over 14 years in the IT field, Royer has held key positions at Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Dell prior to founding Royer SI. In these roles, he has led and influenced the development of various strategic initiatives within R&D Engineering and Global Enterprise Services and Support divisions.

Royer is an advocate for Health Information Technology (HIT) and, since 2004, has collaborated closely with a public-private consortium of health organizations to better understand and solve the challenges faced within global healthcare today. This collaboration has led to the design a blueprint that would support the creation of a Health Information Exchange (HIE) and was undertaken alongside the Utah Department of Health, several Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO), and flagship healthcare systems in the world. In 2006 and 2007, he organized and led an educational campaign in China in collaboration with EMC Healthcare, Microsoft Healthcare and GE Healthcare Asia delivering guest lectures and leading round-table discussions with the Beijing Health Bureau and the Sichuan Ministry of Health, among others.

Royer is also an evangelist of storage education and has partnered with EMC Education Services to promote and deliver the EMC Storage Technologist Certification Program, an open-course curriculum that aims to educate storage professionals in basic and advanced concepts in the design and implementation of storage architectures. He is also involved in promoting the EMC Academic Alliance (EMCAA) and has recently worked with the Faculdade Informatica Academica Paulistano (FIAP), a leading private university in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to introduce EMCAA into their curriculum program.

Royer was instrumental in founding SNIA Brasil, a Regional Affiliate of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Today he serves as Chairman and devotes a significant portion of his time working with its founding members to establish a meaningful presence of SNIA in Brazil which will include educational and development programs and initiatives.

B.S Major Computer Science, Vanguard University of Southern California