Accomplished Board Director and C-Suite Executive with collaborative style who achieves both profit and purpose objectives with an eye for detail in the context of strategic goals. Proven experience implementing innovation and technology to accelerate progress and enhance the customer experience. Received the IBM Chairman’s Award for her exceptional leadership improving IBM’s international trade ecosystem. Spent over 3 decades at IBM as a global executive managing cross industry service offerings with Profit & Loss responsibility and global delivery excellence. Expert in Blockchain, Fintech, AI, data science, security, privacy, digital healthcare, and other emerging technologies. Beyond corporate experience, C-Suite executive who has evolved startups to more global footprints while ensuring successful financials in both the short term and long term.

 

Responsibilities and experiences include:

 

-    Expertise in Blockchain, FinTech, AI     , Data Science            -  C-Suite Executive

-    Board of Directors & Committee Experience                           -  Digital Healthcare

-    Operational Optimization                                             -  P&L Responsibility

-    International Business & Finance                                          -  Global growth for Start-ups                     

-    Strategic Planning                                                                 -  Technology Consumer Specialist

-    E2E Supply Chain Integration/Optimization                          -  Acquisition / Merger Integration

 

Formal Education - Masters in Science Mgmt and Math/Computer Science BS

Various For Profit and Not For Profit Boards including Treasurer & Committee Chair on 2 Boards

IBM – (34 years)

Various Executive Positions Globally

 

Executive responsible for B2B Cloud Services in IBM’s Cognitive Process Services division. Increased revenue from $7M to $21M the first year through operational optimization and global expansion. Lead and managed the integration of a large high-tech start-up to grow IBM’s capabilities in this space quickly growing our revenue to $100M.  Owned and successfully improved the P&L overall and on every customer contract during this period. Met with the IBM Board of Directors several times to discuss further expansion and necessary changes to the business model to ensure long term sustainability.   

Cross-industry Supply Chain Management product offering executive in IBM’s Business Process Services division. Lead the creation of a new division in IBM leveraging existing IBM internal assets for external clients. First external client signed a $4M deal which we easily grew to a client base to $50M in revenue within 18 months. Later this division would achieve over $300M in revenue supporting clients from all sectors. Provided the leadership needed to ensure privacy and security between internal IBM and the external clients. Also created all audit processes and procedures to automatically enforce privacy and security between external IBM clients. AI & Blockchain implemented to secure all financial and supply chain transactions.

Lead the creation of a payment systems offering for IBM to originally solve the internal tax, logistics and financial systems issues between applications, and later utilized this offering for external clients. Deployed payment systems to integrate legacy financial institutional systems and processes to the ever-evolving world healthcare, consumer products and manufacturing/logistics operations. Enhanced this payment systems offering to utilize Blockchain and other high-tech supply chain visibility capabilities.