Driving 15 Years Of IT Transformation In 5
CIO, Thursday, March 21st, 2024
First-ever McWane CIO Lynn Lovelady fast-tracked the global manufacturer's corporate IT makeover by emphasizing A-teams, smart centralization, and establishing trust.
In 2018, the day after his employer publicly announced it was being acquired, Lynn Lovelady, then VP of IT at Energen, received a pivotal phone call that would reshape his career.
It was from Charlie Nowlin, then CFO at McWane, who for more than a year had been searching for the company's first chief information officer.
After a long courtship that included lunches with members of McWane's C-suite to ensure a cultural fit, Lovelady signed on to helm IT as CIO at the global manufacturer of ductile iron products, valves, hydrants, fittings, plumbing products, fire extinguishers and suppression systems, and steel pressure vessels.