Boards: Canada Life, Empower, Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp., Great-West Lifeco.

Robin Bienfait was the chief enterprise innovation officer and senior advisor for Samsung, where she was responsible for building strong partnerships with large global customers to deliver enterprise-class services. Robin joined Samsung with more than 30 years of experience in mobility, security, business development, enterprise sales, wireless network operations, and engineering. As a global intrapreneur, Robin launched Samsung Business Services and advised on the B2B investment strategy. Now, as CEO for Emnovate, Robin advises and provides software solutions to emerging businesses.

Prior to Samsung, Robin served as chief information officer for BlackBerry, where she led the enterprise business unit and software development team and handled end-to-end product security, tier three technical customer service, global network services, corporate security, and corporate information technology.

For the majority of her career, Robin has held senior leadership positions across AT&T, including Bell Labs, handling global network services/GNOC, business continuity and disaster recovery, and compliance. At AT&T, Robin’s last role was leading global network services as chief compliance officer of environment, health, and safety.

Robin holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Central Missouri State University. She is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in management of technology. Robin also holds a cybersecurity certification from NACD. A global influencer with 18 patents, she has been the recipient of several awards and was named as one of the top 100 chief information officers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Robin currently serves on multiple boards as an independent director at Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp., Ulabs Systems, Empower Retirement, Putnam Investments, and GW LifeCo.