Jerry Vallery’s professional experience in information technology started with IBM sales and progressed through various senior executive management positions with leading Fortune 100 firms such as Oracle, Computer Sciences, and CA (Computer Associates). Vallery holds a BS in physics with honors from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a JD from Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He has also held graduate teaching and fellowship positions at Fisk, Howard, and Tennessee State University.