Beth Simonetti

Beth Simonetti is a Chief Human Resources Officer with over 30 years of experience leading global companies through significant change and growth. With over 50 mergers and acquisitions in her portfolio, Beth has developed particular expertise working with boards and executives to integrate and align leadership teams, organizational structures, compensation and talent management strategies. She is focused on driving strategic business goals, culture transformation, aggressive financial targets and DE&I objectives. As current EVP and CHRO at TD SYNNEX, a $62B global technology business with over 23,000 employees in over 40 countries, Beth has seen the company through a number of acquisitions, including the $10B Technology Solutions division of Avnet, followed by the purchase of Tech Data by Apollo Global Management and going public with the merger of SYNNEX. Beth has brought her expertise to both public and private boards, working closely with the Compensation and Nominating & Governance Committees. She has partnered with the boards and individual directors on highly sensitive executive issues including a CEO transition. She was the lead advisor on executive compensation and worked with Compensation Committee members to complete a transition to a new independent executive compensation consultant, to implement a revised director compensation structure in addition to leading the executive compensation strategy through the transition from public to private equity and back to public. Beth created a skills matrix and assessment process to assist the board in developing a board refreshment strategy and on-boarded several new directors. She has also successfully led the recruitment of highly engaged C-Suite executives, including the most recent CIO and CTO. This work has all been through the DE&I lens where Beth has led the efforts on not only developing an ever increasingly inclusive culture but increasing representation of women and other underrepresented groups, globally. Beth also serves as the executive sponsor for the black employee resource group. Beth has been an integral part of the new TD SYNNEX strategy to transform its culture, including leading the Global Crisis Management Committee through the COVID 19 pandemic. She also participates as a member of the Retirement Investment Plan, Global Risk, Global Corporate Responsibility and Future Workplace steering committees. Her early career was leading HR through exponential growth at Cardinal Health, as they went from $3B to $65B in revenue and 3,000 to 65,000 employees over 12 years. Just prior to her current role with TD SYNNEX, she led HR for Baker & Taylor, a $2+B, privately held distribution business. Beth received her B.S. from Miami University and her Master’s from The Ohio State University. She has been the recipient of multiple HR recognitions including, Human Resources Person of the year in Tampa Bay.