Ron Guerrier serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Save the Children where he is responsible for providing vision and driving innovation across the global organization’s technology, data, digital tools, infrastructure, and operations portfolio. He served as a Board Director at Equinix, a Fortune500 digital infrastructure company, Chairman Emeritus of the Board for Innovate @UCLA, and is the Executive Adviser for STEM Advantage, a non-profit organization for young women and underserved communities pursuing their dreams of a career in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Guerrier sits on the Board of Trustees of SBP (SBPUSA.org), an organization which assists with the rebuilding of homes and restoring lives after natural disasters.
Guerrier has more than 25 years of experience managing technology in both the public and private sector across various industries. Most recently he served as the Global Chief Information Officer for HP Inc. This role was responsible for further building out a world-class IT organization, to deliver and enable the highest levels of productivity for over 70,000 employees, contractors, and partners around the globe. Prior he served on Governor JB Pritzker’s Cabinet as the CIO and Secretary of Innovation & Technology for the State of Illinois, held the position of CIO at Express Scripts, the nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager, and functioned in the same role at Farmers Insurance Group from 2015 to 2018. Prior to that, Guerrier spent 19 years at Toyota North America, rising from repossessions coordinator to chief information officer for the Financial Services division. Guerrier earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master’s degree in operations management and supervision from North Park University. Guerrier is currently a doctoral candidate in Organizational Change and Leadership at the University of Southern California.
Throughout his career, Guerrier has earned numerous honors and awards, including the 2019 & 2020 Crane’s Top50 Award, 2019 & 2020 Top Technology Executive to Watch from HMG Strategy, Gartner’s 2018 CIO Breakaway Leader of the Year, 2018 CIO Digital Edge50 Award, LA Business Journal’s CIO Lifetime Achievement Award, 4x CIO100 Award recipient, 2020 Orbie Chicago CIO of the Year, 2020 StateScoop State Executive of the Year, the 2022 ITSMF Global Technology Executive of the Year, 2022 Forbes50 CIO Next List. He has also written numerous articles for publications such as GovCIO, Entrepreneur, CIO Review, and Fortune Magazines. Guerrier was inducted in Foundry’s CIO Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
