Pat Smith has over 25 years experience in Information Technology in a variety of industries. For the past three years, she had been the CIO at Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe, Inc., an umbrella organization that creates safe havens for children and families through adoption and foster care. Prior to Our Kids, she spent ten years at Stiefel Laboratories, Inc., (now GlaxoSmithKline) where she served as Global Vice President Information Technology. A former Senior Vice President at Mercantil Commercebank, N.A, she is the recipient of 2009 Intel IT Professional Award and the 2009 Mobile Enterprise Mobility Award. She was a finalist for the Governor’s IT Florida 2009 Award and the winner of the Miami Chamber of Commerce Technology Leader of the Year Award for 2010.