Maryjo Charbonnier is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Kyndryl, the world's largest provider of IT infrastructure services and one of the largest startups in corporate history. Charbonnier is leading the global initiative to make Kyndryl the employer of choice in the more than 60 countries where the company operates. She is at the helm of the company’s massive renovation of all HR systems and processes to support the company’s nearly 90,000 people to advance their skills and careers as they deliver for customers. Maryjo is also leading the company’s global effort to create and advance its differentiating culture – The Kyndryl Way.
As a young company launched in 2021, Kyndryl is a place for people who are fast, agile change leaders -- who never stop learning and view diversity as a superpower. People who power human progress. Maryjo is passionate about progress – progress in the HR profession, progress in corporate culture, progress in skills & careers, progress in our communities, and progress in technology. This is why Kyndryl – the Heart of Progress – is the perfect place for Maryjo as CHRO.
Maryjo joined Kyndryl from Wolters Kluwer, where she served as Chief Human Resources Officer for the global provider of professional information, software solutions and services for professionals since the start of 2015. She drove the design and implementation of all human resources strategies, policies, and processes. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, Maryjo served as Chief Human Resource Officer at Broadridge Financial Solutions, a global Fintech company, for seven years. Earlier, she was an HR executive in a variety of leadership roles at PepsiCo, including Vice President for Talent Sustainability for PepsiCo Foods Americas, a unit with $30 billion in revenues and more than 120,000 employees.
A native of the Detroit area, Maryjo is a graduate of Catholic University in Washington, DC, and earned her MBA at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She was named "CHRO of the Year" in the Netherlands for 2019 and is nominated for “CHRO of the Year” by HRO magazine in 2024.