CIO to CEO the Lessons Learned
CIO, September, 2007 by Nancy Weil
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At Schwab, Lepore rode high through the dotcom boom. In 1995, she launched Schwab.com in a matter of weeks. It was the first customer-facing website for the company that was then a worldwide leader in electronic trading by its brokers, and it helped Schwab preserve its competitive position as a discount broker against upstart E*Trade. For her achievement as a technologist who created a strategic role for IT, CIO chose Lepore as a member of our CIO Hall of Fame.
Dawn Lepore
Lepore left Schwab for drugstore.com as Schwab’s fortunes waned (then-CEO David Pottruck was fired...
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