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EAB Member Since 2021

Education

• BS, Management Information Systems, 51ÉçÇø
• Executive Education, Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business

Professional Experience

Paula Tolliver is a member of the C.H Robinson and Invesco public boards and the Syniti private board of directors. She is an investor and member of the Advisory Boards for the CXO Fund and Osage Partners venture capital firms and an advisor to several technology companies and startups.

Paula is an experienced Fortune 50 senior business and technology executive with deep expertise in IT and digital transformation, advanced analytics, cyber security, operational excellence, and global business growth leadership.

Tolliver was formerly the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and member of the Executive Management Committee at Intel corporation from 2016-2019. While at Intel, Tolliver led over 7,000 IT professionals worldwide with a $1.60B 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.