Daphne E. Jones is a seasoned executive with extensive experience transforming business processes and implementing digital technologies to drive market growth, seamless customer fulfillment & internal efficiencies within Fortune 50 corporations. She has over thirty years of experience in general management and executive level roles at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira (now Pfizer) and General Electric. During her tenure at GE, she served as: SVP for Future of Work, and ran IT as SVP & CIO Product Engineering, Imaging & Aftermarket Services, a $13B segment of GE Healthcare. She helped innovate with AI, enabling predictive maintenance, design for additive & other advanced technologies to help GE be first movers in the healthcare market. She co-led a global team that defined GE’s Digital DNA.

Prior to GE Healthcare, her early career days were spent at IBM and Johnson & Johnson as Executive Director, VP IT, followed by her role as SVP & CIO at Hospira, Inc. a $5B global pharma & and infusion technology company. At Hospira, she led all aspects of Hospira’s enterprise, infrastructure, cyber, digital & analytics technology.

Daphne serves on the board of directors for AMN Healthcare, Inc., Barnes Group Inc, and Masonite International Corp, and is on audit, compensation & governance committees. Named by Savoy Magazine, “one of most influential AA Directors in 2021”, she is a member of the NACD, Accenture Cybersecurity Council, The Digital Directors Network (DDN), and the ELC.

She is the founder of The Board Curators – a company that prepares senior leaders for board service (www.theboardcurators.com) and is launching her book in Fall 2022 from McGraw-Hill entitled ‚“Win When They Say You Won’t“.