Elizabeth Defrancesco

About Elizabeth Defrancesco

Elizabeth is a strategic leader that excels during times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. She views these environments as opportunities to optimize performance and implement transformational change. Elizabeth is committed to inspiring, motivating, and guiding others to be more agile and entrepreneurial. She believes in promoting a culture that encourages collaboration, continuous improvement, and a focus on delivering a sustainable quality product to customers.Across her career, Elizabeth has been responsible for partnering with influential stakeholders to achieve transformative IT alignment and performance excellence. This includes enterprise IT strategy and investment management, services and delivery excellence, IT workforce strategy, teammate experience, and supplier and financial management across the IT organization.She is very proud to work for Bridgestone, where the values of our Bridgestone E8 Commitment guide our work to help create a more sustainable world. Her LinkedIn masthead is a guayule farm, a plant that is being explored as an alternative source of natural rubber. Guayule also provides farmers with an alternative, more sustainable, crop in dry conditions compared to water intensive crops like corn and alfalfa.

Experience

1. Vice President, IT Digital Foundations and Insights

   Bridgestone Americas

   Jul 2025 — Present · Nashville, TN, US

   My role is centered on governing technology investments and ensuring data integrity across the enterprise. I oversee investments, delivery, service quality, data governance, enterprise platforms, AI and automation, and business insights. Through these functions, our department empowers the organization to deliver digital value by enabling enterprise-wide insights, driving innovation through intelligent automation, and enhancing service quality and operational excellence.

Education

• University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  MA, Cognitive Psychology

  1995 — 1997

• Kent State University

  BA, Psychology

  1992 — 1995

Skills

• Quality Assurance
• Integration
• Business Process Improvement
• Pmp
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Databases
• Data Analysis
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Program Management
• Vendor Management
• Strategic Planning
• Management
• Project Management
• Training
• Process Improvement
• Analysis
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Visio
• Analytics
• Business Analysis