Jane Connell

First Name
Jane
Last Name
Connell
Job Title
SVP & CIO, Verizon

Senior executive & leader with a long-term record of success driving business/digital transformations & implementing change to achieve core organizational, operational/ business development targets. Expertise includes understanding business needs & identifying the right tech solutions to address them; creating new business models/capabilities & vendor partner networks; delivering service management solutions & strategic use of digital automation. Passionate about business enablement, people experience, workforce of the future & advancement of D&I (focus on Women’s Leadership & STEM).

Jane is currently SVP and CIO of corporate functions for Verizon. She is commissioned to deliver the enterprise function’s transformation agenda enabling current and future state solutions leveraging cloud and SAAS while re-engineering the business processes and Verizon operating models.

Prior to joining Verizon, Jane was SVP and CIO of corporate functions for State Street Bank in Boston. She was commissioned to deliver the enterprise function’s transformation agenda enabling current and future state solutions leveraging cloud and SAAS while re-engineering the business processes and State Street operating models. The Corporate Chief Information Officer was a newly created position focused on the global enterprise level to create a portfolio of investments that horizontally integrates the bank across lines of businesses and drives simplification and standardization improving quality, cost, reliability and regulatory compliance.

Previous to State Street, Jane had impressive tenure with Johnson & Johnson starting in 1991. She held progressive roles in Supply Chain Operations. Multiple leadership positions and achievement-based tenure culminated with her final role as VP & CIO Corporate. Appointed to serve as Sr Tech Executive on a cross- functional Board commissioned to transform/create a new operating model for J&J’s future competitiveness, provided the required thought leadership & led execution of technology strategies that delivered organizational agility, process automation & virtualization of how work gets done. Transformation included multi-functional shared service centers in all regions, creation of a talent strategy changing the demographics of future workforce strategies & the financial profile to compete globally on cost/talent. Led DI and Women’s Leadership Initiative.

Jane has her BS, Business Admin, Rider University; completed the Smith College Executive Program for Women; certified Process Six Sigma Greenbelt. She has served on the Red Cross of NJ Board and is now currently on the Rutgers University LDSP Advisory Board. Jane has also been nationally recognized by various industry organizations.