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You can't spend eight years at General Electric Co. without absorbing the company's obsession with good management. Equifax Inc. chief technology officer Robert Webb certainly did. While at GE, he began to focus on ways to use business technology to improve project management and set priorities. He used a software tool that was similar to Investment Navigator, which he uses at Equifax, to collect the data he needed to track projects and assess their alignment with business goals.

"My forte is strengthening infrastructures, simplifying complex IT environments, and driving product innovation," says the 37-year-old Webb, who holds the top tech job at Equifax.

Before joining Equifax, Webb was managing director of GE's Canadian Vendor Finance group. During his time at GE, he held the positions of CIO at GE Capital's Mid-Market Finance, Global Consumer Finance group in Japan, and GE Power Systems. Webb was a consultant in Asia with EDS and Andersen Consulting before joining GE.

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