Stoddard Cynthia

Cynthia Stoddard

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Adobe

Symposium Roles
Speaker/Panelist 2020, 2018

Panels Participated in

Episode #5: Digital Transformation (2020DLS)
Reimagining Leadership in the Next Normal… Are CIOs prepared? (2020)
Implementing AI (2018)

Bio

As senior vice president and chief information officer of Adobe, Cynthia Stoddard oversees Adobe’s global Information Technology and Reliability Engineering teams. In her leadership role, she spearheads a global strategy for delivering services and operations that form the mission-critical backbone for the company. Ms. Stoddard has 25-plus years of business experience and IT expertise leading large global organizations including Adobe, Netapp, Safeway, and APL Limited in supply chain, retail, and technology development. She is a recipient of the CIO 100 Award in 2017 and 2018 for Adobe IT’s innovative ways to deliver business value, and named a CIO Hall of Fame inductee in 2019. Ms. Stoddard holds a BS degree in accounting (Western New England University) and an MBA (Marylhurst University).

Don’t be afraid of breaking the business model – 6/3/20
Cynthia Stoddard: Don’t become a mushroom and don’t be in the dark – 5/26/20
How remote work is changing CIO priorities – 4/9/20
CIOs are uniquely poised to lead digital transformation – 4/1/20

Recent Press Coverage

Digital transformation: What CIOs have learned about culture in the last 9 months (2020-10-28)
People-first work culture empowers telework productivity (2020-10-19)
Believe it or not, CIOs need a digital customer experience strategy (2018-06-14)
8 lessons for IT chiefs: MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2018 (2018-05-25)
CIOs Talk AI, Digital Pressures and Other Pain Points at MIT’s CIO Symposium (2018-05-24)
Digital transformation: 5 tips to take it to the next level (2018-05-07)