AFJCT Board Member

Evelyn Follit
Senior Vice President, Chief Organizational Enabling Services Officer and CIO RadioShack Corporation

Evelyn Follit is Senior Vice President - Chief Organizational Enabling Services Officer and Chief Information Officer for RadioShack Corporation. Her primary responsibility is to ensure that RadioShack's business is enabled and supported by our Information Technology and Organizational Enabling Services departments.

Before joining RadioShack in 1997 as Vice President and CIO, she served as ACNielsen's Vice President – Operations/Engineering and Dun & Bradstreet's global planning and technology leader. Evelyn Follit also has worked for ITT in various European telephony operations, process improvement and organization planning assignments and for IBM in both technology implementation and financial and product planning positions.

During her tenure at RadioShack, Follit has overseen the implementation of RadioShack's online strategy of connecting RadioShack stores to the company's global network and launched RadioShack's Web site.

In 1999, "Retail Technology" magazine recognized Ms. Follit as one of the top 10 CIOs in retailing. "Information Week" designated her as one of the top 10 CIOs across America and ranked RadioShack's I/T organization ("RSTS") at No. 39 in the top 500.

In 2000, "RISNEWS" named RSTS in 4th place in the retail industry for exemplifying the fusion of technology and business strategy, and "Computerworld" ranked RSTS as 28th in terms of overall I/T performance. In 2001, "RISNEWS" ranked RadioShack 3rd of the Top 50 retailers for successfully fusing its use of technology with the business's strategy. In both 2000 and 2001, "Computerworld" ranked RSTS as one of the top 100 I/T places to work.

In 2001, "Computerworld" chose Evelyn Follit as one of the 100 Premier IT Leaders in the country, and "Retail Info Systems News" recognized Ms. Follit as one of the "25 Most Influential People in Retail for 2001."  In 2002, Ms. Follit received the "Executive Technology" magazine/Compaq Computer award for CIO/IT Leadership and Innovation.

In 2002, Evelyn Follit was honored as one of the pioneering women in technology by the American Friends of the Jerusalem College of Technology on behalf of its Women's School of Engineering (New York City).

In 2003, she was named one of the 50 most powerful people in retail I/T by “Executive Technology” magazine and was name a co-recipient of the Society for Information Management’s “CIO of the Year” award.

Ms. Follit has a Master of Business Administration in finance and information systems and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics. She has completed executive planning and technology programs at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and MIT's Sloan School.