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Following a 25-year career with Procter & Gamble (P&G), Geoff Smith founded LP Enterprises, LLC. LP Enterprises to provide information technology, strategy, and customer relationship management (CRM) expertise across a broad range of industries. Through collaborative agreements, LP Enterprises also supports clients of Forrester Research, The Harvard Group, and the Cincinnati Consulting Consortium. At P&G, Mr. Smith last held the position of deputy chief information officer. In this role, he ran the “Office of the CIO,” where he was responsible for P&G’s IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and advanced technology evaluation. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Smith led the development of P&G’s customer and consumer-facing e-business solutions. This included re-launching the company’s website as well as creating a distributor system that managed $1 billion in sales and won CIO Magazine’s Enterprise Value Award in 1998. While serving as the CIO of P&G’s $2 billion Japanese subsidiary, his IT organization met the ultimate business disaster recovery challenge by quickly restoring P&G’s operations in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated Kobe in 1995. Mr. Smith currently co-chairs the CIO Roundtable of Greater Cincinnati and serves on the academic advisory boards of University of Cincinnati, Xavier University and writes for CIO Magazine. Additionally, he serves on the boards of several non-profits, including Tech Corps, an organization dedicated to enriching K-12 education through the effective use of technology in schools. Geoff received a B.S. degree in operations research/industrial engineering from Cornell University in 1979. | 