Urban Haas

Urban is an executive experienced in managing all aspects of a business. His 33 years of industry experience has taken him through a diverse set of areas: software development, integration, consulting, sales, architecture and CEO. Urban helped CDW bring new offerings to market and is known for pushing the envelope. Today, Urban is an executive technology strategist covering all things in the data center and cloud-based services, crossing private infrastructure and multiple public cloud service providers. He participates on many cross-functional teams to increase value and bring new innovative offerings to our customers. Urban can be found speaking at CDW-hosted events and vendor conferences. An outside-the-box thinker, Urban creates unique technology solutions to solve difficult business problems, taking advantage of data center convergence to reduce costs while taking resiliency and availability to the next level. He has a passion for engineering simple, right-sized solutions that keep capital expenses in line. Urban lives on a hobby farm outside of Minneapolis. He sings, plays guitar, rides horses, blogs, is involved with non-profit causes and travels around the globe.