As Chief Information Officer, Melanie Kirkwood Ruiz is responsible for several critical areas of ABM’s business, including the optimization of ABM’s IT infrastructure to enable greater business innovation; enhancement of service delivery through client-facing technology and data-driven insights; modernizing IT organizations and operating models; Intelligent Automation; Data and Analytics; and development and execution of technology strategy that supports ABM’s business transformation at both the enterprise and line-of-business levels.

Melanie is a progressive technology leader with 20 years of experience across diverse industries, including technology, commercial real estate, manufacturing, healthcare and aviation. She joins ABM from Cushman & Wakefield technology group, where she was responsible for developing and executing the technology strategy in the Americas. She has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and both a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Engineering from Cornell University