NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) today announced the appointment of Carol Zierhoffer as chief information officer. She has also been elected a vice president of the corporation.
Zierhoffer, 51, will be responsible for the planning, alignment, governance and delivery of the IT infrastructure for the company. She joins Xerox from ITT Corporation where she served as vice president and global information officer. Previously, Zierhoffer spent 20 years in senior executive roles at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Zierhoffer received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire and a master's degree in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University in Waltham, Mass.
Zierhoffer, whose appointment is effective immediately, succeeds John McDermott as CIO. McDermott has been named head of strategy and business process architecture for Xerox’s technology business.
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