:Cinda Hallman
Cinda A. Hallman{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/13/business/management-heading-a-year-2000-team-as-time-runs-out.html
|title=Management: Heading a Year 2000 Team, as Time Runs Out
|author=Barnaby J. Feder |date=October 13, 1999}}{{cite book
|title=Diversity in the Power Elite: Ironies and Unfulfilled Promises
|author1=Richard L. Zewigenhaft |author2=G. William Domhoff
|year=2018}}{{cite web
|title=Crossing the executive digital divide
|date=2 April 2014 |url=https://issuu.com/diplo/docs/crossing_the_executive_digital_divi}} (1944–2007) became noteworthy for her work in Y2K prior to coining the phrase "outsource the outsourcing process;"{{cn|date=July 2022}} both of these were at Du Pont, prior to her nomination to The Research Board.{{cite magazine |magazine=CIO magazine
|url=https://www.cio.com/article/2374167/it-organization/in-memoriam--cinda-hallman.html
|title=In Memoriam: Cinda Hallman
|author=Abbie Lundberg |date=January 2, 2008}}
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Biography
Arkansas-born Hallman began her career at Conoco in 1966 where she was hired as a systems analyst directly after graduating from Southern Arkansas University.{{cite web
|url=https://www.saufoundation.org/university-receives-1-96-million-from-cinda-hallman-estate
|title=University receives $1.96 million from Cinda Hallman estate}}
=Du Pont=
Conoco was acquired by Du Pont in 1981. In 1988 Hallman moved to the parent company,
{{cite magazine |magazine=CIO magazine
|title=Cinda A. Hallman: Confidence Builder
|date=September 15, 1997 |pages=78–79}}
and advanced to CIO in 1992. By 1999 she held a senior vice president title, the company's first female vice president .{{cite magazine |magazine=CIO magazine
|url=https://www.cio.com/article/2439373/cio-hall-of-fame--cinda-a--hallman.html
|title=CIO Hall of Fame: Cinda A. Hallman
|author=Richard Pastore}}Hillman was close to Edgar S. Woolard Jr., Du Pont CEO (1989 to 1995).
=Spherion=
Hallman joined Spherion{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/spherion-corporation
|title=Spherion Corporation}} in 2001 as Chief Executive Officer, retiring in 2004. She died December 2007, at age 63, of an illness.{{cite news
|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal
|title=When Career Trumps Family - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
|quote=who died on Christmas Eve of a brain tumor at age 63
|url=https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/BL-JB-681?responsive=y}}Decades older than the age at which her father had died: "early in life, on her family's farm after her father's death"
She had been a member of Spherion's board of directors since early 1995.{{cite web
|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2001-04-10/spherion-announces-dupont-executive-to-be-new-president-and-ceo
|title=Spherion Announces Dupont Executive to Be New President and CEO
|website=Bloomberg News
|date=April 10, 2001}} Hallman replaced Raymond Marcy as Chief Executive Officer in 2001, a role that Marcy had held for over a decade, during which time1999 Spherion acquired a rival, Norrell Corp.
Spherion's prior name was Interim Services.{{cite news
|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB983824816761370994
|title=Spherion Unit's IPO Price Tops Entire Firm's Value
|quote=Florida-based Spherion, previously known as Interim Services Inc.,
|date=March 6, 2001}}Interim had been sold by H&R Block in 1994
==Outsourcing==
Hallman made a mark in the area of major multi-billion dollara $4 billion 10 year contract outsourcing.{{cite news |newspaper=Sun-Sentinel
|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-08-03-0108020950-story.html
|title=Spherion to tap Outsourcing
=Board memberships=
Among the boards of directors on which she served were "Toys "R" Us, Catalyst, United Way of America and Christiana Care Health Systems."{{cite web
|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/delawareonline/obituary.aspx?n=cinda-hallman&pid=145575260
|title=Cinda A. Hallman|website=Legacy.com }}
Legacy
Beyond having pioneered in what later became known as midsourcing (and receiving various awards),{{cite magazine
|magazine=InformationWeek
|url=http://home.ubalt.edu/abento/641/59cacio.htm
|title=IW's 1995 Chief Of The Year: Better Chemistry
|author=Bruce Caldwell |date=December 25, 1995}}"1996 Visionary Award from Communication Week, and in 1997, ... one of the most influential information technology executives of the decade by CIO magazine.{{cite magazine
|magazine=TWST (The Wall Street Transcript)
|url=https://www.twst.com/bio/cinda-a-hallman
|title=Cinda A. Hallman}} Hallman's alma mater wrote about serving as "an inspiration for young women as she met the challenges of corporate leadership and succeeded at the highest levels."{{cite news
|newspaper=Sun-Sentinel
|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-04-11-0104100938-story.html
|title=Spherion replaces CEO amid an earnings slide
|quote=broke the glass ceiling at chemical giant DuPont ... was named Spherion's president and CEO
|author=Joan Fleischer Tamen |date=April 11, 2001}}
Personal
Five–foot–six Cinda Hallman is "the elder ... (to) fraternal .. twin sister Linda." Their father died in an accident{{cite magazine
|magazine=Forbes
|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/1126/089.html
|title=Desperate Times |author=Joanne Gordan}} when they were age 15.
Notes
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References
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External links
- [https://web.saumag.edu/news/files/2007/07/195-cinda-hallman.jpg Photo, Cinda Hallman]
- [https://web.saumag.edu/news/files/2010/09/99-Cinda-Hallman.jpg Photo, Cinda Hallman]
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