Dr. Reed currently holds the title of Chief Technology Officer for Logicalis USA, a London headquartered subsidiary of JSE-listed company Datatec Ltd. Logicalis has revenues in excess of $500M and employs more than 1,500 people located in Europe, USA, and South America. Logicalis USA has offices in 25 major cities and provides mission-critical computer hardware, software, and application development and hosting services to mid-market and Fortune 1000 companies.
Dr. Reed’s responsibilities include overseeing Logicalis’ professional services P&L and the company’s extensive R&D efforts across all products and services. He has proven to be an invaluable member of the executive team, having been with the company from its founding via the acquisition of three separate companies. He helped guide the integration of the three companies and has played strategic roles growing the combined businesses from $150M to over $300M. He has managed several key divisions, including software development services, managed services, infrastructure services, product marketing and vendor channel relations, where he managed large partners such as HP, IBM, Cisco, Sun, Microsoft, Sybase and EMC. His technical background is broad and he is well regarded as an expert in the use of wireless technologies for business process automation. A Seattle local, he has helped shape the landscape of Washington business systems by designing and managing teams who have developed enterprise-class software for the likes of T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, QPass, Amazon.com, Corbis, Frank Russell and host of Washington State agencies. He also manages teams building systems in Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston.

Until 2000, when Puget Sound Systems Group was sold to Datatec Ltd, Reed served as co-owner and vice president of technology with PSSG.  He initiated and managed the sale of PSSG to Logicalis for $56M, and currently plays a strategic role in the acquisition of additional companies for Logicalis. Between 1985 and 2000, he held various technical positions at small and large companies, including Netscape and WRQ as well as Microsoft, where he served as a lead developer of Microsoft's Web Outlook Express, a product used throughout the world today.

Dr. Reed pursues his personal investments and interests through Rivers Bend Investments, an SMB private equity investment and technology advisory firm. Through Rivers Bend, Reed takes a hands-on approach to private investment, offering both investment capital and personal management expertise to start-up and stage-2 businesses. He has funded and sits on the boards of Fauxture Couture, Realtech LLC, and media production companies. Fauxture Couture is a multi-level marketing firm for the jewellery industry. Realtech LLC develops and hosts software for realestate brokerage firms, serving some of the largest franchises in the industry including Coldwell Banker and JL Scott. Reed is both a co-producer and investor of Hotlines, a sporting TV show produced for SpikeTV (previously aired on ESPN). He currently is executive producer for One Goat Productions, a firm specializing in the conception and production of promotional short films for mobile devices. He also serves as an expert witness for law firms and as a temporary-CIO for companies, and develops commercial real-estate in Bend, Oregon.

As part of his serious commitment to the community, Dr Reed volunteers his time to youth organizations and environmental organizations specializing in alternative fuel research in Montana. In 2000, Reed combined his passions for ancient history and modern technology, founding the non-profit organization OpenText.org, which provides software tools to the academic community for improved linguistic analysis of ancient and modern texts.

Dr. Reed's educational background is similarly diverse. He holds a bachelor's degree in intercultural studies, a master's degree in Greek, and a PhD in ancient history and religion with specialization in early Judaeo-Christian history, artificial intelligence, and linguistics from Sheffield University in England. He has published three books and over 20 articles about ancient history, 1st century religion and linguistics. Dr. Reed lives in Seattle, Wash.  A native of Montana, he maintains a cabin and guide business there and enjoys fly-fishing, golf and hiking, especially when he can do it with his two sons.