Michaele James is Chief Information Officer at Renew Financial. An Information Technology professional with over 30 years of experience, she has been a Fortune 500 IT leader in the insurance, technology, manufacturing, finance & retail industries. With a passion for mentoring, developing, and creating highly functional teams, her focus at Renew is to ensure the stability of technical operations while creating competitive technology solutions.

Prior to joining Renew Financial, Michaele held leadership roles at CSAA Insurance Group, Sun Microsystems, KPMG, and EDS, and she is currently a board member at the Society for Information Management (SIM), the largest CIO and Technology association in North America. Michaele received a B.S.B.A. degree from the University of Denver in Quantitative Methods & Statistics.