Cummins has announced that Sherry Aaholm, chief information officer, will assume a newly created role as chief digital officer, while Earl Newsome will join Cummins as chief information officer.
After more than 25 years of experience in Information Technology, Aaholm joined Cummins in 2013 as CIO, leading the global IT organization, and in 2016, launched the Digital Accelerator to focus on digitally connecting Cummins’ products to drive the company forward on its journey towards smart technologies.
Aaholm’s customer-facing experience in the transportation and logistics industry will be instrumental in positioning Cummins’ digital organization for success, the company said. Cummins said that digitization of its products is integral to its strategy of both maintaining product leadership and accelerating growth in new areas.
Newsome comes to Cummins after five years at Linde, a global industrial gases company, leading the organization as the Americas IT CIO where he served as a trusted advisor and business partner on IT.
Known for leading IT and digital transformations for global companies, Newsome is a leader with more than 30 years of global IT leadership experience. His experience running global shared services, manufacturing, and cyber security will help build on the work the Cummins IT organization has accomplished, his new company said. Cummins added that Newsome’s leadership “will position the company as it continues the work underway in the digitization of its enterprise business processes streamlining the way Cummins does business.”
“We are always developing our people, processes and products to meet and exceed customers’ expectations, helping them realize value and achieve their objectives. A key piece of that has been, and will continue to be, this digital evolution, and Sherry has been at the helm of this work,” said Jennifer Rumsey, president and chief operating officer, Cummins Inc. “This requires and deserves Sherry’s full focus, and this new role allows for that. We are also thrilled to have Earl join us to continue important progress with the systems, tools and processes our employees use every day to run our business and serve our customers.”