Cinda A. Hallman

CINDA A. HALLMAN is President and CEO of Spherion Corporation. She was
appointed to the position in April 2001, following six years of active
membership on Spherion’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining Spherion,
she had a distinguished 20-year career with DuPont. As Senior Vice
President of DuPont_ global systems and processes, she led a major
effort to define new business models associated with a strategic shift
in focus for the $28 billion global enterprise. As DuPont’s Vice
President of Global Information Systems and Chief Information Officer,
Ms. Hallman provided the leadership and vision to first reduce costs by
more than $500 million (45%) and then form DuPont’s IT alliance with two
of the world’s leading information technology firms, Computer Sciences
Corporation and Accenture’. Ms. Hallman joined DuPont’s energy
subsidiary, Conoco, in 1966 and held a number of positions of increasing
complexity. When DuPont acquired Conoco in 1981, she assumed
responsibility for consolidating computer applications for the two
entities. In 1990, Ms. Hallman was named Vice President of DuPont
Information Systems Applications Worldwide. In 1992, she took on the
added responsibility of Chief Information Officer. She was named 1995
Chief Information Officer of the Year by Information Week, and her
organization received the magazine’s ‘Excellence in IS’ award for the
chemical industry in 1994, 1995 and 1996. Ms. Hallman received the 1996
Visionary Award from Communication Week, and in 1997, was recognized as
one of the most influential information technology executives of the
decade by CIO magazine. She is a Board member of Bowater, Inc., United
Way of America and Christiana Health Care. She served as co-Chair of the
Delaware IT Initiative. Ms. Hallman received a Bachelor of Science
degree in Mathematics from the University of Southern Arkansas.