IT Woman of the Year Nominee:

Eileen Wirley

Former CIO,
Carestream Health, Inc.

Eileen Wirley was most recently Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Carestream Health, Inc., a $2.5B manufacturing company, formerly Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group.   She led a internal global team of 300 employees plus outsource and contract partners in delivering services to 8100 users at over 160 sites in 42 countries.  She managed a $65M operating expense budget and a $5M capital budget, as well as a significant one time cost budget for the IT separation due to the divestiture.  Eileen successfully led her organization through the successful IT startup for Carestream Health, Inc. demonstrating her superior vision, strategic, tactical, and operational abilities. 

While at Kodak she also held several additional IT Director roles including divisional CIO and Global Operations. She managed a worldwide staff of over twelve hundred systems analysts, providing design, development, project delivery and support for more than 2,000 applications. Eileen successfully implemented global sourcing agreements with offshore partners, moving production support and application development to a global delivery model.

While at Carestream Health, Inc., Eileen actively mentored staff helping them set stretch goals and giving them the resources to achieve those goals.  Her feedback is honest, direct and always constructive causing.  She is an advocate for work/life balance, believing that balancing our personal and professional lives contributes to productivity. 

Eileen has been on the board of Career Development Services since 2003.  Her commitment and contributions assure sound judgment in the governance and strategic direction of the organization, as well as provide leadership to the Board.  Eileen has co-chaired the event to recognize the special gift scholarship recipients, and Eileen is a personal contributor to this fund. 

She is a member of the eBusiness Association Board of Directors, and is on the MIS Advisory Board for the Saunders College of Business at RIT.  Eileen has taught religion at her church, served as a medic for a youth football and coached youth soccer. 

She has an MBA from the University of Rochester Simon School and a BA degree from the University of Notre Dame.