Patrick Thompson was the Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer at Albemarle Corporation, responsible for Global Business Shared Services and developing and executing Global Information & Digital Business Transformation Strategy.

He is a proven Executive leader helping global fortune 500 companies in achieving operational performance and back office efficiencies. He has worked in several C-Level roles as well as consulting roles working with executive management teams to help build one fortune 1000 and two fortune 500 companies in his career. He has a proven track record of helping build profitable companies and growing the top and bottom line performance.

Patrick was recently honored with the CIO Hall of Fame award and is a Top 100 CIO honoree from both CIO and Computerworld magazine.

Patrick is also the Co-Chairman of the SAP CEAC (Chemical Executive Advisory Committee). HMG Advisory Board member, Gartner CIO, Charlotte CIO Advisory Board Member. Patrick is a member of the Moveworks, Salefroce, Workboard, Celonis, and Arayaka Customer Advisory Boards.

He started his career as Managing Director of Andersen Business Consulting at Accenture helping companies with strategic planning, business systems planning, merger and acquisition integrations, and operational and sales performance management consulting.