Executive Leadership Team : Koke Veljasevic

 Koke Veljasevic, Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Koke Veljasevic serves as vice president and chief information officer (CIO) for Citation Corporation. He is also a member of the Executive Leadership Team. In his current role, Veljasevic provides strategic information technology (IT) support to Citation’s management team to enable informed business decisions and ensure the company achieves its operations targets.
 
Prior to being named CIO in 2004, he was IT director of the company’s Birmingham, Ala., facility, where he aligned Citation’s IT initiatives with its business strategy, built an enterprise information technology infrastructure and created an Intranet.
 
Previously, Veljasevic was IT manager at the same facility for approximately four years. In this position, he centralized Citation’s IT functions, standardized one enterprise resource planning system across the company’s divisions, created Citation’s first Web site and implemented a corporate-wide email system.
 
He joined Citation in 1994 as a network administrator based in Lufkin, Texas.
 
Veljasevic has more than 14 years experience in the foundry industry.
 
Veljasevic studied international relations at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. He is married with one child.