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About Patty
Patty Hatter is a multiple award-winning technology, business and operations leader who drives digital transformation and growth for global companies.
Patty currently advises early stage technology companies, focused on key technologies such as cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain-enabled enterprise applications. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX). Prior to this, Patty was SVP of the McAfee Services organization, where she drove 50% growth.
Previous to her role at McAfee Services, she served as general manager and CIO for Intel Security as well as CIO and SVP of Operations for McAfee. There she orchestrated a global transformation of IT and operations. Recognized by Gartner as leading the transformation of an under-performing IT organization to one to that beat all Gartner’s metrics for peer companies; through transformation, delivered both 15% reduction in IT spend vs. revenue, while simultaneously enabling increased spend/delivery for new capabilities by 25%.
Before joining McAfee in 2010 Patty was vice president of business operations at Cisco, driving company-wide transformations. Patty started her career at AT&T, both in the US and Europe.
In recent years she has received a series of highly coveted awards, including “Women of Influence” and “Power Executive” by Silicon Valley Business Journal; “Bay Area CIO of the Year” by Silicon Valley Business Journal.
What We Talked About
Transparency
Governance
Take different Roles
Its impossible to over communicate
Connect with Patty
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Patty Hatter is a multiple award-winning technology, business and operations leader who drives digital transformation and growth for global companies.
Patty currently advises early stage technology companies, focused on key technologies such as cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain-enabled enterprise applications. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX). Prior to this, Patty was SVP of the McAfee Services organization, where she drove 50% growth.
Previous to her role at McAfee Services, she served as general manager and CIO for Intel Security as well as CIO and SVP of Operations for McAfee. There she orchestrated a global transformation of IT and operations. Recognized by Gartner as leading the transformation of an under-performing IT organization to one to that beat all Gartner’s metrics for peer companies; through transformation, delivered both 15% reduction in IT spend vs. revenue, while simultaneously enabling increased spend/delivery for new capabilities by 25%.
Before joining McAfee in 2010 Patty was vice president of business operations at Cisco, driving company-wide transformations. Patty started her career at AT&T, both in the US and Europe.
In recent years she has received a series of highly coveted awards, including “Women of Influence” and “Power Executive” by Silicon Valley Business Journal; “Bay Area CIO of the Year” by Silicon Valley Business Journal.
What We Talked About
Transparency
Governance
Take different Roles
Its impossible to over communicate
Connect with Patty
Normally this is where I ask for a rating/review/subscribe, but instead, this month I’m asking that you make a donation for Breast Cancer Research in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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