Jonna Ward
CEO & Founder Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP). 

Established in 1996, VIP is a global technology and outsourcing firm that helps companies maximize revenue, mitigate risk, and reduce costs.  VIP meets the unique needs of its clients by offering a suite of solution offerings in the areas of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, SAP Integration and Consulting, Custom Application Development, and Management Consulting.  VIP’s corporate headquarters are located in Folsom, California with offices in Minneapolis, Alexandria, New York City, Dallas, Houston, Denver, and Bangalore, India. 

Through her strategic, operational, and financial leadership, Ms. Ward has created and transformed VIP from a company operating out of her back bedroom with one employee (herself) to a global consulting firm with 800 staff, $150 million in revenue, and 900 clients that span various commercial sector industries as well as federal, state, and local government. 

Ms. Ward founded VIP 13 years ago by leveraging her unwavering commitment to client satisfaction and using her innate ability to balance insight and ideals with tactical action and results.  As the CEO and Founder of one of the fastest growing companies in America as ranked by INC Magazine, Ms. Ward thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that embraces ongoing change.

Prior to the founding of VIP, Ms. Ward was an executive with Accenture.  This is where she gained her expertise consulting with some of the largest entities in the United States implementing custom-designed, mega-sized systems focused on increasing revenue and improving efficiencies.

Ms. Ward serves as a Board member of WiFi Rail, a leading-edge technology company that has developed a patent-pending, proprietary network that delivers reliable high-bandwidth wireless connectivity to objects moving at high speeds both above and below ground.  In addition, Ms. Ward is well known in California for her government and procurement reform efforts, her philanthropic involvement supporting a variety of organizations, and her past Board position with the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization (SACTO).  Most recently, Ms. Ward has created two scholarship funds.  The first is in honor of her grandmother, and the second is the Women in Technology Scholarship that is awarded by VIP to 10 deserving women enrolled in technology programs at four-year universities in one of the cities where VIP has an office.