Rhonda Vetere

Rhonda Vetere is the current CIO of Herbalife and an American business technology executive, author, and speaker. She was formerly the President of Data and Analytics at nThrive and Chief Technology Officer at Estée Lauder Companies. She has more than two decades of experience in information technology management across industries in banking, technology, beauty, and healthcare.

Vetere was born in Fairfax, Virginia and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. She studied Business, Communications, and Spanish at George Mason University, graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Vetere worked for twelve years in various positions through mergers at CompuServe, UUNET, AOL, Worldcom, and MCI Inc. She became the Managing Director of the Global Infrastructure Operations Center at Bank One Corporation, later JPMorgan Chase, from 2002 to 2007, which included a 2-year assignment in Mumbai, India and extensive travel to Hong Kong and Asia during the JPMorgan Chase and Bank One merger in 2004.

From 2007 to 2010, Vetere was the Managing Director of Technology & Operations at Barclays, working two years in their London office. Vetere worked two years at HP Enterprise Services as their SVP of Global Enterprise Services Technology & Operations until 2012. While at HP, Vetere coauthored a special edition book, “Enterprise Service Management for Dummies”, with Bill Sempf. Starting in 2012, Vetere was then SVP for Global Technology & Infrastructure at AIG.

From December 2013 to January 2018, Vetere was the Chief Technology Officer at Estée Lauder Companies. In January 2018, Vetere joined nThrive's Executive Team as President of Data and Analytics.

Vetere has received several industry awards, including "Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology" by the National Diversity Council for two years in a row (2020, 2019), "Global 100 - Top Female C Suite Executive in Technology" (2018), "Business Transformation Around the World" Stevie Award (2017), "Top 10 Women in Cloud" by CloudNow (2014), and “Top 100 CIO/CTO Executive Leader in STEM” by STEMconnector (2015). She was shortlisted for Top Woman of the Year at the Women in IT Awards: Silicon Valley (2019).

She has been interviewed about her role as a C-Suite Executive by publications including Thrive Global, Huffington Post, Gigabit, The Financial Post, and Das Produktkulturmagazin. Rhonda was on a panel discussion with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). She has also been featured in articles about fitness and running in Triathlete, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Road Runners.

Rhonda published her second book, "Grit & Grind", in March 2019.

Vetere currently serves on the World BPO / ITO Forum Board Executive Advisory Council, the Corporate Advisory Board for Longwood University, and the Board of Directors for the School of Business at George Mason University.

Vetere has spoken at commencement and other events at Dartmouth, Smith-Tuck Global Leaders Program for Women, George Mason University, Longwood University, and a Bronx STEM school. She has been a panelist at debates and conferences, including the World Economic Forum in Davos (2019), WIT Connect (2018), Dell EMC World (2016), Advancing Cyber Security: Obligations of Presidential Candidates and Citizens (2016), SINET Innovation Summit 2015, and the 2014 Outsourcing World Summit.