Join The Board Curators on April 1, 2025, where we will host a brief discussion and Q&A about how to get ready to serve on boards.  The Board Curators is a company dedicated to empowering and preparing senior executives for  board service. www.theboardcurators.com

We will explore the intricacies of board roles, share personal experiences in joining boards, what people get right and get wrong in their search for their first board, and will discuss the reciprocal value gained by serving as a board member.

While not-for-profit or non paid boards can be part of your journey, your aspirations can reach even greater heights.  As a senior executive, you possess unique superpowers – be it in digital /AI, human capital management, supply chain, M&A and more. 

Understanding how businesses operate, coupled with qualities like emotional intelligence, a prove track record of execution, teamwork, integrity & leadership will position you as an excellent candidate for paid board service.

Join us on April 1 and learn more.

Daphne E. Jones is an accomplished and seasoned executive with extensive experience using digital technologies strategically, entrepreneurially, and globally within multi-national corporations. Her leadership drove strategy, cost improvement, access to actionable insights, and customer loyalty. She has over thirty years of experience in general management and executive level roles at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira (now Pfizer) and General Electric. During her tenure at GE, she served as: SVP for Future of Work, SVP & CIO for Product Engineering, Imaging, and Ultrasound, and as Senior Executive & CIO For Global Services – all comprising a $13B segment within GE Healthcare. Daphne had often been asked by former GE CEOs Jeff Immelt, and John Flannery to drive programs at the GE Enterprise level (ie, to define GE’s Digital DNA), and the GE Healthcare business unit level. 

Prior to GE Healthcare, after receiving her B.S. and MBA at Illinois State University her early career days were spent at IBM and Johnson & Johnson as an IT Executive followed by her role as a Corporate Officer, SVP & CIO at Hospira, Inc. a $5B global pharmaceutical and infusion technology company. She was accountable for all aspects of Hospira’s enterprise, digital, cyber & analytics technology. A driver of change acceleration and leadership development, her career has been spent using digital technologies to transform business models, distribution channels and products. For example, Jones helped create global R&D ‘follow the sun’ capabilities that improved mean time to revenue of new pharmaceutical products. Her team used AI and Digital Twin to enable predictive maintenance for MRI’s and CT’s for GE Healthcare.