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Chief Information Officer, Lockheed Martin Corp.
A true patriot,
Joseph R. Cleveland uses his genius to help Lockheed Martin Corp. (the
number one contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense) create
weapons that infantrymen use in war. As the chief information officer,
Cleveland sets the IT strategy for the enterprise system’s
business unit.
“It’s not only my role to keep my corporation state of the
art,” he explains. “We [also] implement IT to accomplish
our mission [and] make sure that we are credible to our customer [the
government].”
Cleveland’s upward trajectory into the hierarchy of Lockheed
resulted from his ability to dexterously weave through, decipher and
decrypt the complexities of an incessantly evolving Internet technology
culture.
“I find that’s the core that differentiated [me] through
each successive position in my career,” he explains of his
handiness. “I’ve been able to get into very complex
problems and dissect them, [giving] us the ability to solve [the
problems] so we can integrate the solutions.”
Cleveland and Lockheed Martin have been fully integrated into the
Executive Leadership Council, as one of the main sponsors of the CEO
summit for the past seven years.
“[Lockheed] sees [the summit] as a place [where] they can find
contemporary top leadership on diversity [and] inclusiveness and
[understand] how that’s used to create business value and
leverage the diversity that we have within the corporation,” says
Cleveland. – terry shropshire
