International Women's Day Profile - Linda Brigance

Linda C. Brigance is Vice President of the Information Technology Division and Chief Information Officer for the Asia Pacific Region of Memphis-based Federal Express Corporation, the world’s largest express transportation company.  She was named to her current position in September 1999 after serving as Director of Information Technology Division in Singapore. 

As Vice President and Chief Information Officer Asia Pacific (APAC), Linda Brigance is responsible for all software development as well as the support and network infrastructure for this region.

Ms. Brigance joined Federal Express Corporation on March 14, 1983 as a programmer in the Information and Telecommunications division.  In 1990, she became manager of International Customer Automation group and moved to Brussels in 1992 to start up the European development group.  In 1996 she moved to Hong Kong to start up the Asian development group for the Customer Technology group.  She was promoted in 1998 to Managing Director of the Information Technology Division in Singapore and in 1999 to Vice President/CIO for the Asia Pacific Region. In that role, she and her staff were responsible for the development and deployment of the all APAC systems as well as the network infrastructure and the Singapore Data Center.  Prior to joining Federal Express, Brigance was a programmer analyst for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Memphis.

A native of Tennessee, Ms Brigance earned her A.S. in Computer Information Systems from State Technical Institute in Memphis.  She received her MBA through a joint program with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Kellogg-Northwestern.  Linda is also the 2008 Chair of the Information Technology & Telecom Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.