Kathryn V. Marinello

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name = Kathryn Marinello


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residence = Apple Valley, Minnesota, USA
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occupation = President and CEO Ceridian Corporation
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Kathryn V. Marinello is President and CEO of Ceridian Corporation, a $1.4 billion USD Minneapolis-based human resources outsourcing company.

Life and career

Early life

Marinello holds a B.A. from the University at Albany and an M.B.A. from Hofstra University, New York. As an undergraduate, Marinello also participated in an exchange program at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Career in the financial industry

Marinello served as President of U.S. Bank Card Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank. Marinello has also worked at Chemical Bank, leading their marketing, information service, and financial department, at Citibank and Barclays as controller, and was President of the Electronic Payments Group at First Data Corporation, providing electronic banking and commerce, debit and commercial processing to the financial services industry.

Marinello joined GE in 1997 as President of GE Capital Consumer Financial Services and Executive Vice President of GE Card Services in Cincinnati, Ohio. Marinello was also President and CEO of a number of other GE businesses, including Insurance Solutions (1999-2002), Fleet Services (2000-2006) [cite news | date=2005-04-07 | url=http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid11_gci1077014,00.html | title=GE Fleet gets its customers on the road with BI | publisher=SearchCRMmcom | accessdate=2008-01-26] , and GE Financial Assurance Partnership Marketing Group, a diverse organization that includes GE's affinity marketing business, Auto & Home Insurance business, and Auto Warranty Service business. Her role as President and CEO of GE Fleet Services included overseeing over 3,000 employees in 20 countries around the world, a division that by itself is among the top 20 Minnesota companies by revenue.

Ceridian Corporation

Marinello was named President and CEO of Ceridian in 9 October 2006 succeeding Ronald L. Turner on 20 October 2006. Ceridian's Chairman, L. White Matthews, III said that "Her background in technology-based and enterprise-focused solutions businesses will be an outstanding asset to the organization." [cite press release |url=http://www.ceridian.com/corp/article/1,2868,13464-62864,00.html |title=Ceridian Corporation Names Kathryn V. Marinello President and Chief Executive Officer | publisher=Ceridian | accessdate=2008-01-26] [cite news | date=2006-10-10 | url=http://www.fleet-central.com/af/t_inside.cfm?action=news_pick&storyID=25394 | title=Marinello to Leave GE Fleet to Become CEO of Ceridian | publisher=fleet-central.com | accessdate=2008-01-26]

In June 2007 Marinello was appointed a director of General Motors Corp. [http://www.gm.com/corporate/investor_information/corp_gov/bios/directors/marinello.jsp]

Marinello is a member of the Business Roundtable and serves on the boards of directors of the Greater Twin Cities United Way and the Minnesota Business Partnership, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy organization made up of more than 100 chief executive officers of Minnesota's leading employers.

Marinello was named in Fortune annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen. [cite news | url=http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0709/gallery.women_highest_pay.fortune/20.html | title=50 Most Powerful Women 2007 | publisher=money.cnn | accessdate=2008-01-26]

Personal life

Marinello lives with her husband and their three children in Apple Valley, Minnesota.

References

External links

* [http://www.ceridian.com/corp/article/1,2868,10920-52918,00.html Ceridian biography]
* [http://www.businessroundtable.org/ Business Roundtable] - Official site