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Linda Dillman
Executive Vice President, Benefits and Risk Management, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Linda Dillman serves as Executive Vice President of Benefits and Risk Management, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. She assumed this role in 2006. Dillman previously held the title of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Under Dillman's leadership, Wal-Mart has been recognized nationally for making several innovative changes in its health care benefits, concentrating on providing associates and family members with affordable, accessible and high quality options for health coverage.
Dillman joined Wal-Mart in 1991 through the acquisition of The Wholesale Club in Indianapolis, Indiana. At Wal-Mart, she has served in several key information systems management positions, where her most notable accomplishments were the implementation of the perpetual inventory and store Telxon systems at Wal-Mart. In 1998, Dillman was named Vice President of Applications Development, where she led the systems conversion for Wal-Mart's acquisition of ASDA in the United Kingdom. Prior to serving as Executive Vice President and CIO, she served as Vice President of International Systems. Prior to Wal-Mart, Dillman worked for the Hewlett-Packard Company for five years.
In addition to memberships in professional and retail organizations, Linda serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America, the Center for Disease Control & Preventions (CDC) Advisory Committee, Arkansas Governor's Roundtable on Health Care, Northwest Arkansas Community College Foundation Board, the University of Arkansas School of Engineering Advisory Board, the Leadership International Advisory Board (Co-Chairperson), and the University of Indianapolis Advisory Board.
Dillman was named to Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. In addition, Dillman has received numerous awards and honors including the University of Indianapolis "Distinguished Alumni" Award in 2003, the "Information Systems Executive of the Year" by the David D. Lattanze Center for Executive Studies in Information Systems at Loyola College in 2004, the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business "Women in Leadership" Award in 2005, and was selected as Computerworld's 2006 EMC Information Leadership Recipient.
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