Chi Lam, M.S.
Director of Technology, Well Living Lab & Senior Vice President, Delos
“I’m passionate about how technology plays a key role as a strategic enabler for any business.”
Chi Lam is the director of technology for the Well Living Lab. He also is a senior vice president at Delos. Lam has more than 20 years of technology and leadership experience and focuses on technology’s role as a strategic enabler for business. He works with the lab to determine overall information technology (IT) strategies, tasks, and prioritization and provides direction to IT staff to ensure that goals and objectives are met. He also focuses on bringing cutting-edge technology to the lab for research endeavors.
Before his position with the lab, Lam was an IT unit head at Mayo Clinic. He led the cloud planning services team in creating an enterprise platform and was responsible for the establishment of a new Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) Architecture and Planning team and co-leading the creation of the I&O Architecture Board.
Before working at Mayo Clinic, Lam was employed at IBM and held various software development and management leadership positions. One of his key roles was a two-year assignment as a senior manager of IBM’s Tivoli product in Beijing, China. He led more than 100 software engineers to drive better product quality through mature and automated testing methodology.
Lam earned both an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in Chicago.