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Manjit Singh joined Chiquita in April 2006 as vice president, corporate information technology, and was promoted to chief information officer in October 2006. In this role, Singh serves on the company's management committee and is responsible for all facets of Chiquita's global commercial and innovations systems, infrastructure and applications services, master planning and architecture, web applications and information delivery.
Singh came to Chiquita from Gillette in Singapore where he served as director, Asia Pacific business systems and regional chief information officer for four years. He combined three independent IT organizations into a single unit responsible for all Asia Pacific IT operations. In addition, he developed a regional project management office and drove the creation of a project development and approval process tailored to Asia Pacific needs and which incorporated Six Sigma concepts while also leading the regional SAP, JDE, and Fourth Shift enterprise resource planning teams.
Before joining Gillette, Singh worked in Cincinnati as chief information officer of a company whose operations were acquired by Broadwing, an organization that provided fixed line, wireless, Internet, e-commerce and hosting services across the United States. He joined Broadwing subsidiary ZoomTown, serving as director of strategic alliances, where his responsibilities included directing a venture capital investment fund and handling mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to that, Singh worked for Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, where he served in positions ranging from systems analyst to section manager. Among his accomplishments was the launch of the first official P&G corporate worldwide web site and set up of that company's initial Internet e-commerce and marketing efforts. He earned a bachelor of science in mathematics and computer science at the State University of New York at Binghamton and a master of science in computer science from Indiana University. | 