Rachelle Putnam serves as IT Director/CIO for General Dynamics Land Systems, and is responsible for managing the global Information Technology department including US, Canada, Australia and UK. Rachelle oversees the development of IT strategy, deployment of new technologies, maintains daily operations and manages the IT budget. She joined General Dynamics in 2005, after nearly 10 years of Oracle software project implementation with consulting firms Arthur Anderson and Bearing Point. In this role she worked closely with end users and technical implementation teams to re-engineer global business processes, integrate legacy applications and test the system design.

Rachelle earned a B.A. in both Mathematics and Economics and Management from Albion College.