Barbara Stinnett
Barbara has a proven track record in business leadership, working with private startups through public Fortune 50 companies, holding positions including CEO, President, COO, CSO, EVP, and Co-founder. She has led companies from private to public, public to private, driven significant turns for investors, and delivered EBITDA results beyond goals, using strong operational excellence best practices developed over the years. Her expertise is in bringing consistent, profitable growth to the companies she's served, and has led small and large mergers and acquisitions such as the HP/Compaq integration, and directed global business units managing 4,500+ employees, up to $2.5B in size for Fortune 50 companies.
She is a strategic thinker with proven execution skills and abilities including leading consulting organizations globally, focused on change management, BPO, HOSHIN planning, and M&A. Her development and execution of strategic plans have led to growth in bookings and recurring revenues, yielding strong profits.
Barbara has extensive practical expertise in global marketing, sales, services, and support, and has done organizational design, direct and channel sales build outs, developing go to market strategies, and business modeling. She has led and managed geographic, multi-industry, and cross business segment teams in consumer, commercial, and government sectors.
She is both customer centric and operationally focused, having Six Sigma, Six Sigma Lean, and supply chain management experience.
Barbara holds degrees in Computer Science and International Business (languages and negotiations focus) from the University of Wisconsin and is fluent in English, French, Japanese, and Chinese. She currently serves on multiple boards, is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and mentors CEOs and boards on critical issues facing both the public and private board member and CEO.