Robert
B. (Rob) Carter is Executive Vice President of FedEx Information Services and
chief information officer of FedEx Corporation. He is a member of the
five-person Executive Committee, which plans and executes the corporation’s strategic
business activities. Carter is responsible for setting the technology direction
of the FedEx applications, infrastructure, networks and data centers that
provide around the clock and around the globe support for FedEx product
offerings. He joined FedEx in 1993 and has over 30 years of systems development
and implementation experience.
Carter has been awarded many
industry accolades, including, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business
2014 and 2010, Fortune Magazine’s Executive Dream Team, Information Week's
Chief of the Year Award in 2000, 2001 and 2005, and a seven-time recipient of
CIO Magazine’s 100 Award. Carter is also
a charter inductee into the publication’s CIO Hall of Fame.