My CIO Career: Mike Giresi, Chief Digital Officer At Molex, On Building Consensus For Digital Transformations
Heller Search Associates, Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
In this interview for the My CIO Career series, Mike Giresi explains how his many years as a CIO and previous stints as a chief digital officer prepared him for his latest challenge: bringing an electronics manufacturer with a proud history into the digital business age.
Mike Giresi, the first-ever chief digital officer (CDO) at Molex LLC, has led the effort to support the transition of an 86-year-old electrical products manufacturer into a digital business.
It was the challenge of embarking on a transformation of the company, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, and a global electronics industry leader which enticed Giresi to accept the position in 2019.
'The role really intrigued me,' he says. 'I thought it would be a great challenge to work in a company that did not yet have a digitally native way of working and to help transform it. The goal was to take it from what it was, which was heavy in transaction and processing, to a company that truly embraces the concept of customer experience in the digital age.'