Jim Noble Biography

Jim Noble is managing director of Merrill Lynch & Co. He has responsibility for strategy and transformation in the Global Infrastructure Solutions (GIS) organization of Merrill Lynch & Co. GIS provides business operations, client services, and technology solutions for Merrill Lynch businesses worldwide. Noble is also enterprise chief architect and has line management responsibility for technology in investment banking and research. Until March 2007, Noble was group vice president and CIO of Altria Group Inc., with overall responsibility for information technology in that Fortune 15 company. Prior to joining Altria Group in March of 2002, Noble was senior vice president and CIO at AOL Time Warner. Prior to that, Noble had been with General Motors Corp, where he was based in Detroit as chief technology strategy officer, moving to that assignment from the role of CIO of General Motors International, where he was responsible for all IT activities outside of North America. Earlier in his career, Jim led the worldwide IT consulting practice at Cap Gemini, and prior to that he worked for GE on the design of aircraft systems. Noble is president of the Society for Information Management, which is the leading professional association for IT executives. In 2007, Jim was voted as one of the 10 most influential IT executives in the USA and was ranked 8 th in CIO Insight's Top 100 CIOs.