2004 JCT Awards Dinner Honoree

Patricia Morrison

Chief Information Officer

Motorola Inc.

Patty Morrison, currently CIO of Motorola Inc. She was named Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Office Depot, Inc, in January 2002. Patty was responsible for directing, overseeing and managing Office Depot’s global information systems, including its highly successful global e-commerce platform.  This included responsibility for the worldwide development and support of applications for merchandising, marketing, sales, e-business, finance, human resource and supply chain business functions as well as all of the Company’s computing environments and networks.  Her team was responsible for all strategic, operational and financial aspects of the Company’s technology decisions.

In November of 2003, Morrison was elected to the board of directors for Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., and she also serves on the Board of Directors of the Boca Raton, Fla. Chamber of Commerce.

Before joining Office Depot, Morrison spent 18 months as CIO of The Quaker Oats, Co. in Chicago. Patty was an integral part of Quaker’s systems integration with PepsiCo throughout 2001 after their acquisition of Quaker Oats. Prior to that, Patty was CIO at GE Industrial Systems located in Hartford, Connecticut from 1997-2000 where she lead this $6 billion division of GE through Y2K and an acquisition that doubled it’s size. She was with Procter & Gamble from 1981 – 1997 where she held a variety of IT leadership positions. 

Patty is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Miami University graduating Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Mathematics & Statistics and a B.S. in Secondary Education.