CIO
Cardinal Health
Patty Morrison joined the LEF Advisory Board with effect from October 2008.
Prior to joining Cardinal Health, Patty Morrison was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Motorola. In this role, she oversaw all strategic, operational and financial aspects of the company's information technology architecture, systems, tools, processes and infrastructure. During her tenure, Motorola focused the IT portfolio on expansion of retail channel capability, enabled the transformation to a global single supply chain, and successfully integrated many key acquisitions and divestitures. Patty built a world class IT team that contributed key innovations to growth of key businesses and Motorola products for the Enterprise.
Before joining Motorola in 2005, Patty served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Office Depot, Inc, where she was responsible for managing Office Depot's global information systems, including its highly successful global e-commerce platform.
Prior to Office Depot, she served as CIO of The Quaker Oats Company in Chicago. As CIO, Patty oversaw Quaker's systems integration with PepsiCo following Pepsi's acquisition of Quaker Oats in 2001. Prior to that, she was CIO of GE Industrial Systems, a $6 billion division of General Electric. Patty began her career at Procter & Gamble, where she held a number of systems management and IT leadership positions.
Patty attended Miami University, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and statistics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education. She serves on the boards of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, SPSS, Inc and Jo-Ann Stores, Inc, where she chairs the board's governance committee.