Bonnie Smith is an accomplished business-centered technology executive with a track record of delivering superior business and IT results based on her broad and deep IT leadership expertise.

Having worked for premier Companies (DuPont, Whirlpool, Abbott, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Eaton and permanently landed at Lear) as well as the global management consulting firm McKinsey. Her robust industry experience includes Insurance (P&C, Medical, Re), Investment Banking, Chemicals, Life Sciences/Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, Media and Corporate staff organizations. This variety of manufacturing and service sector exposure enables her to bring best practices and out-of-the-box thinking to the opportunities and/or challenges at hand. She is intimately familiar with all business functions having re-engineered and/or automated them ranging from small evolutionary improvements to dramatic overhauls. She has extensive European experience.

This experience base spanning Corporate/Consulting, Industries and Functions enables her to engage business peers on what will genuinely move the needle of their business performance and enables her to ensure high-value IT-enabled strategies behind which her business peers can rally. She runs a high quality IT operation delivering year-over-year productivity improvements sufficient to hold nominal IT operations budgets flat.

She encourages prudent risk-taking, creates supportive high performing teams, drives accountability and sets stretch targets which resulted in a career of deep team loyalty as a leader who speaks the truth and supports her staff while helping them grow. Bonnie has a B.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University of PA and an MBA from the University of Chicago, both with High Honors. She was named Pittsburgh CIO of the Year and has raised more than $300K as an active volunteer.