Lou Senko
An engineer by trade and coach by passion, building skillful development and IT teams has been a trademark of Lou Senko’s career. Lou brings more than 30 years of experience leading architectural design, development, implementation and integration of enterprise-wide solutions to meet global business, financial and market demands to Q2. His organization is responsible for the Availability, Performance and Quality of the solutions being delivered, and the Security and Compliance of the environments they are delivered from. This aligns Hosting, Support with Security & Compliance under a single organization. This team is comprised of roughly 400 individuals and represents roughly $135million in expense, with another $15million annually in capital. Lou is on Q2’s expanded executive leadership team.
Known for his prowess for reengineering organizations, Lou has a successful history of aligning teams with strategic roadmaps to deliver scalable, resilient, and value-driven services. He also offers a unique expertise in corporate mergers and acquisitions, participating in more than 25 M&A deals throughout his career. Involved in all aspects from the due diligence discovery phases to the operational integration of post-merger.
Prior to Q2, Lou served as the director of technology at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. Lou also served 12 years at Activant Solutions before its merger with Epicor Software Corp, where he stayed on as the senior director of global support operations.
With an advanced degree in electrical engineering from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Lou and his family landed in Austin in 1999. Now an active member of Austin’s community, Lou serves as president for Austin’s Society of Information Management and serves on several industry advisory boards. He is a sought-after resource for banking, credit union and technology journalists, has been featured on a number of industry podcasts and enjoys speaking to technology leaders throughout the U.S. Lou is an advisor on several boards, member of several professional groups, and an active mentor in both professional groups and education institutions.