Synopsis

Patty Morrison will talk about her role as the global CIO of Motorola and provide insights into how the CIO's office merges IT capabilities with business needs to drive value creation within Motorola. Patty was recently selected as the 2007 CIO of the Year by the Executives Club of Chicago and the Association of Information Technology Professionals. Much of the session with Patty will be devoted to interactive Q & A and this would be a special opportunity to speak with Patty on her various initiatives and challenges as a senior female leader in the business technology world.

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About the Speaker

Patricia B. Morrison is executive vice president and chief information officer for Motorola. In this role, Morrison oversees all strategic, operational and financial aspects of the company's information technology architecture, systems, tools, processes and infrastructure. Patty joined Motorola in 2005 and has led an effort to build a global IT organization that delivers world-class IT value creation. In her first year, Motorola jumped from a #46 to a #12 ranking among the InformationWeek Top 500 IT innovators for 2006, and #1 in the manufacturing industry segment.

Morrison brings Motorola more than 20 years of systems and IT expertise in a wide variety of roles. Before joining Motorola in 2005, Morrison served as executive vice president and chief information officer of Office Depot, Inc., where she was responsible for managing Office Depot's global information systems, including its highly successful global e-commerce platform. Morrison led the transformation of Office Depot's IT architecture and helped the company to achieve more than $100 million in efficiency improvements.

Prior to Office Depot, Morrison served as CIO of The Quaker Oats Company in Chicago. As CIO, Morrison oversaw Quaker's systems integration with PepsiCo following Pepsi's acquisition of Quaker Oats in 2001. Prior to that, Morrison was CIO of GE Industrial Systems, a $6 billion division of General Electric. She began her career at Procter & Gamble, where she held a number of systems management and IT leadership positions.

Morrison attended Miami University, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and statistics and a bachelor of science degree in secondary education. She serves on the boards of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., where she chairs the board's governance committee.

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