Ascension Health: Sherry L. Browne, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Sherry L. Browne, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Sherry L. Browne
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Sherry L. Browne is Senior Vice President for Ascension Health and President of Ascension Health Information Services (AHIS). Ms. Browne is responsible for leading AHIS, Ascension Health's information technology group. She also serves as executive sponsor for several key operational initiatives for Ascension Health and manages key strategic relationships with our IT partners.

Prior to joining Ascension Health, Ms. Browne was the Chief Information Officer for Monet Mobile Networks in Seattle, Wash., a start-up CDMA pure-play wireless data company. There, she led the launch team in selection, development and deployment of all operating systems, vendors and processes.

She spent 10 years at Sprint in Kansas City, Kan., where she worked in IT and finance, and held positions of increasing responsibility, including Chief Information Officer for Sprint PCS and Vice President, revenue operations for the finance department. As Chief Information Officer of Sprint PCS, Sprint's fastest-growing division, she directed strategic business planning, data center operations in six locations, application development, network engineering, data management strategies and complete back office support. In her various positions at Sprint, she managed internal and external development teams and was responsible for aggressive product development deadlines. She also selected and operated the revenue systems to support consumer, business, wholesale and affiliate billing operations.

Prior to joining Sprint, Ms. Browne was the Vice President, Retail Delivery Systems for UMB Banks, NA, in Kansas City, Mo. She led the effort to select and install on-line teller and customer service platforms to integrate legacy systems data with retail point of delivery.

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