Mr. Lawton has been president of International Management Technologies, Inc. since its founding in 1985.  He is considered an international expert in creating rapid strategic alignment between enterprise objectives and customer priorities.

His world-class U.S. and international clients have included organizations such as: 3M, Ford Motor Company, Motorola, Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union, General Electric, Myriad Genetics, Amanah Raya Berhad, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Naval Air Systems Command, American Express, Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, Nike, American Honda, Harley-Davidson Financial Services, Owens Corning, AT&T, Honeywell, Petrobras, Blessing Hospital, Imperial Oil Resources, Raytheon, BlueCross and BlueShield, Intel, RHB Bank, California State University, John Deere, Siemens, Caterpillar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Southern Alberta Technical Institute, City of Calgary, Mayo Clinic, Tecom Investments/Dubai, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Mercury Marine, U.S. government agencies from Alaska to Vermont, Eastman Kodak, Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), University of Vermont, Ericsson, Microsoft, Washington Mutual, Federal Emergency Management (FEMA), Missouri Department of Revenue and Wolters Kluwer Health Pharma Solutions.