Cecilia McKenney is Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services. McKenney joined Quest in February of 2018 and is responsible for all human resources activities across the company. In her tenure, Ms. McKenney has implemented several people initiatives that are progressive, technology-enabled and promote workplace flexibility while being fiscally responsible and ultimately contribute to Quest’s goal of creating an inspiring workplace for 49,000 colleagues. She has partnered with the CEO and the Chair of Compensation Committee to strengthen the Executive Compensation plans and add two new directors. Most recently, she has been working with the Senior Leadership Team to navigate through the COVID-19 crisis and lead Quest’s Race for Equality Plan. She also is the co-sponsor of the PRIDE employee business network.

Prior to Quest, Ms. McKenney spent more than a decade at Frontier Communications as an Executive Vice President, where she led the telecommunications company’s human resources function and held senior leadership roles leading the $5B Consumer Division — sales, marketing, business operations and customer service. She built the HR strategic plan to upgrade talent and transformed labor relations by reducing employee benefit costs for both union and non-union employees. She worked with the Board of Directors on talent and CEO Succession, with the Compensation Committee on executive compensation and the Retirement Committee which oversaw a $4B pension plan. Ms. McKenney has extensive experience in M&A. Before Frontier, Ms. McKenney had a 16-year career at The Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiCo. In her last position, she was the Group Vice President, Headquarters Human Resources responsible for Compensation, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Organization Development and Corporate HR. Ms. McKenney directed the development of PBG’s Human Resources function following the spinoff from PepsiCo. She also led diversity and inclusion, formed PBG’s first Diversity Advisory Board, and PBG was named to Diversity Inc’s Top 50 list. Prior to PepsiCo, Ms. McKenney worked at L.F. Rothschild Inc. and Mutual of New York in a variety of roles with increasing responsibilities.

Ms. McKenney earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Franklin & Marshall College, and an Employee Benefits Specialist certification from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

Ms. McKenney is a member of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New York and the St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center Foundation and a member of the President’s Leadership Council for Franklin & Marshall College. In 2014, she was honored as the Human Resources Person of the Year for Large Employers by the Society of Human Resources Management of Southern Connecticut. She was featured in the book, Marketing for Tomorrow, Not Yesterday by Zain Raj as a Marketing Decathlete and was awarded a Champion for Child Care by the Child Care of Westchester and the Hall of Fame Award from St. Patrick’s School. She resides in Bedford, NY.