Rhonda Vetere

Rhonda is a Corporate Athlete that is about action and helping others grow. Reach out and engage with her if you are serious about growth.

A Global Technology C Suite Executive and World athlete herself, she applies this mental model in & out of the office, guiding how she leads her life with others around her- known as a Corporate Athlete. Rhonda is an active leader — whether she’s spearheading corporate initiatives around the world, competing in another IRONMAN 70.3 mile triathlon, Racing Across America or mentoring business people, students & athletes globally. She is passionate about people, technology, growing Companies while bringing people along the journey and elevating others.

Rhonda has worked across Industries intentionally to gain experience across all verticals. She is technology global C- Suite executive, and digital transformation change agent. She has lead some of the largest Companies through global crisis, for example, unwinding Lehman Brothers, AIG “ to big to fail” and the JPMorgan and BankOne merger. She has 23 M&A’s under her belt. The list goes on. She serves on several Boards and is a Global Strategic Advisor to Companies around the world. Fun fact: She has spoken at DAVOS during the World Economic Forum 2019, 2023 and 2024.

She has lived and worked internationally – in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Mumbai, and across India – and has managed teams of up to 20,000 people. In October 2022, she was inducted in India as the Global STEM Ambassador by Meghalaya Chief Minister along with other dignitaries and the Chancellor of the University of Science & Technology Meghalaya (USTM).

In addition, USTM named a new Rhonda Vetere Biodiversity Park for her sustainability work around the globe, and she commissioned the ground breaking ceremony for the USTM I Can I Will Academy in Meghalaya, India.

Vetere is the author of Grit & Grind and co-author of an HP special edition book, Enterprise Service Management for Dummies.

With an ability to support mergers, create synergies across lines of business, and leverage her onshore/offshore experience, Rhonda is a results-oriented, client-focused executive and delivers value by driving technology improvements for cost and performance to drive the right business outcomes.

From her experience as Chief Technology Officer & dual Chief Technology Officer at Estée Lauder Companies, Rhonda has deep domain expertise in technology and data. Her role included global leadership across 162 countries and running the technology & operations team. She spearheaded the transformation of the IT capabilities foundation into a digital environment at record industry pace, without business disruption, around the world – while saving $28 million a year.

2023, Rhonda completed the NYU Law Board of Directors Academy.

As of June 2025, she has completed 137 races which span from Racing Across America on her bike, Ironman 70.3’s (over 26) long endurances races over 55 miles overseas, marathons, NYC Navy SEAL Swim(s) and half marathons. She is an endurance athlete in and out of the office many refer to as the one that is the Corporate Athlete. All of her races have intentions to help others. On October 14, 2024 she completed the Abbott World Marathon Majors and became a 6 star finisher. Note, she is one in 43 people that has done this in one year hand in hand with Chris Nikic. In December 2024, Rhonda competed in the Ironman World Championships 70.3 in New Zealand. She has been to raced in back to back Ironman 70.3 World Championships representing the USA in her age group overseas in 2023 and 2024. Let’s see what she does for 2025!

She has a passion for sports and loves helping others dreams come true. Rhonda is all about action and she is a world renowned Change Agent to help Companies and people be the best they can be with results/bottom line numbers to show for all of the hard work.