Primary Job Title Board of Advisors Primary Organization 
Zixi
Location Atlanta, Georgia, United States Regions Greater Atlanta Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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F.A. ‘Fran’ Dramis is the CEO of F. Dramis LLC, a technology consulting and investment firm. He provides support, advice and capital to businesses providing web services, data security and IT infrastructure management.
Mr. Dramis currently serves on the private company boards of Damballa, NanoLumens and Urjanet. In addition, he is on the
advisory boards of Virima, Voyager Capital, Diabetech, Zixi LLC and Medify, Inc.
He served previously on the private boards of RealOps Inc., US Oncology (Chair of Technology Committee) and IOCOM, as well as on the public boards of WebMethods, Inc., Avocent Corporation (Chair of Nominating & Governance committee, member of Audit committee and member of Strategy & Acquisition committee), Ditech Networks (Chair of Nominating & Governance committee, member of Compensation committee) and Netezza (member of Audit committee).
Mr. Dramis was formerly the Chief Information, Ecommerce and Security Officer for BellSouth.
Before joining BellSouth Corporation in 1998, Mr. Dramis founded CIO Strategy, Inc., an information technology consulting firm. At that firm, Mr. Dramis led technology transformation efforts at Citibank, Coopers & Lybrand, NASD and Bankers Trust.
Prior to CIO Strategy, Mr. Dramis was managing director and CIO at Salomon Brothers.
Mr. Dramis also served as president and CEO of Network Management Inc., and president and chief operating officer of Telic Corporation.
Early in his career, Mr. Dramis worked with AT&T, including Bell Labs, rising to the position of executive director of information product management.
Mr. Dramis is also an author of 2 books and a regular speaker at technology and leadership forums.
