Cinda Hallman

Cinda A. Hallman[1][2] became noteworthy for her work in Y2K prior to coining the phrase "outsource the outsourcing process;" both of these were at Du Pont, prior to her nomination to The Research Board.[3]

Former Moses Allen and Alice Dunning Starr House, now The Research Board, "an exclusive assemblage of international CIOs that studies best practices."[4]

Biography

Arkansas-born Hallman began her career at Conoco in 1966[4] where she was hired as a systems analyst directly after graduating from Southern Arkansas University.[5]

Conoco was acquired by Du Pont in 1981, at which Hallman advanced to CIO in 1992. By 1999 she held a senior vice president title, the company's first female vice president .[1][4]

Hallman joined Spherion in 2001 as chief executive officer, retiring in 2004.[3] She died inDecember 2007, at age 63, of an illness.[6][7]

Among the boards of directors on which she served were Toys "R" Us, Catalyst, United Way of America and Christiana Care Health Systems.[8]

Beyond having pioneered in what later became known as midsourcing and receiving various awards,[7][9] Hallman's alma mater wrote about serving as "an inspiration for young women as she met the challenges of corporate leadership and succeeded at the highest levels".[5][10]

Personal

Five foot six Cinda Hallman was "the elder ... (to) fraternal .. twin sister Linda". Their father died in an accident[11] when they were age 15.[7]

References
  1. Barnaby J. Feder (October 13, 1999). "Management: Heading a Year 2000 Team, as Time Runs Out". The New York Times.
  2. Richard L. Zewigenhaft; G. William Domhoff (2018). Diversity in the Power Elite: Ironies and Unfulfilled Promises.
    - "Crossing the executive digital divide".
  3. Abbie Lundberg (January 2, 2008). "In Memoriam: Cinda Hallman". CIO.
  4. Richard Pastore. "CIO Hall of Fame: Cinda A. Hallman". CIO.
  5. "University receives $1.96 million from Cinda Hallman estate".
  6. "When Career Trumps Family - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal". The Wall Street Journal. who died on Christmas Eve of a brain tumor at age 63
  7. Bruce Caldwell (December 25, 1995). "IW's 1995 Chief Of The Year: Better Chemistry". InformationWeek.
  8. "Cinda A. Hallman".
  9. "1996 Visionary Award from Communication Week, and in 1997, ... one of the most influential information technology executives of the decade by CIO magazine."Cinda A. Hallman". TWST (The Wall Street Transcript).
  10. Joan Fleischer Tamen (April 11, 2001). "Spherion replaces CEO amid an earnings slide". Sun-Sentinel. broke the glass ceiling at chemical giant DuPont ... was named Spherion's president and CEO
  11. Joanne Gordan. "Desperate Times". Forbes.


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