Chad Smith is an Information Technology executive with almost two decades’ of experience in IT leadership and global technology implementations within the agricultural sector. He has spent extensive time in Brazil, sub-Saharan Africa and in the US building global IT teams, managing large multi-country technology deployments, focusing on continuous improvement through process automation and pushing for a lasting digital strategy. He is extremely passionate in leading his IT teams from around the world with their differing cultures to solve complex business scenarios and digitally transform the operations in favor of the evolving new modern workplace. Chad is driven by all types of challenges that have built his abilities over this tenure, including leading transformation efforts, business process optimization, project planning & management, optimizing & managing staff in 9 countries and the ability to provide a strategic and tactical perspective to technology that brings IT and business together in order to enable operational growth for tomorrow.Other expertise and advancements include: System standardization & migration, Cyber-security strategy and planning, IT compliance & DR design, Agricultural technology & solutions and managing all aspects of the project life cycle and delivery.