Paula Tolliver is a Fortune 50 senior business and technology executive with deep experience in IT and digital transformation, cyber security, global business growth leadership and operational excellence strategies.
Paula was most recently the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and member of the Executive Management Committee at Intel corporation from 2016-2019. While at Intel, Tolliver led over 8,000 IT professionals worldwide with a $1.65B IT budget focused on providing leading practice IT solutions and services to Intel’s growing $70+B business portfolio across 58 countries globally. Her responsibilities included driving digital transformation across Intel, protecting data and intellectual property assets, deploying innovative applications and advanced analytics throughout the value chain, and advancing Intel’s world class factory automation, engineering and product design technologies. Her IT organization also partnered with the business product groups to advance Intel’s product and solution offerings in the market.
Before joining Intel, Tolliver was Corporate VP of Business Services and CIO at Dow Chemical. In her over two decades career with Dow Chemical, Paula led a progressively expanding portfolio of global business services with a strong track record for driving bottom-line results and corporate-level transformational change. Her responsibilities included driving IT strategy while also overseeing a large portfolio of business services – comprised of global procurement, business process transaction service centers, customer service, advanced analytics, cyber security, and facilities. Paula also lead the services business unit at Dow with revenues of over $1B.
Paula holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and Computer Science from Ohio University and attended the Babson College Executive Education Program. She is currently a public board director for C.H Robinson and is a member of several Technical Advisory Boards.
