Brad D. Smith

Smith speaking in 2012

Brad D. Smith is an American businessman. He is the president, chief executive officer and a corporate director of Intuit, Inc.

Early life and education

Smith was born in Huntington, West Virginia, and grew up in the nearby town of Kenova, where he attended Ceredo-Kenova High School.[1]

Smith spent one semester at the United States Military Academy at West Point before enrolling in Marshall University.[1] In 1986, Smith received a bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in marketing, from Marshall University.[1]

Smith earned his master's degree in management from Aquinas College in Michigan.[1]

Career

He was a senior vice president of marketing and business development at ADP, LLC. Smith also held various sales, marketing and general management positions with Pepsi, Seven-Up and ADVO, Inc.

Smith joined Intuit in February 2003 as the vice president and general manager of Intuit's Accountant Central and Developer Network in Plano, Texas. He led the company's Consumer Tax Group in San Diego from March 2004 through May 2005. Appointed to the senior vice president and general manager of Intuit's Small Business Division in May 2006, Smith was responsible for the company's small business division which included the portfolio of QuickBooks, Quicken and Payroll products. Brad Smith became Intuit's president and chief executive officer in January 2008.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jack Houvouras, Mr. Smith Goes to Silicon Valley, Huntington Quarterly (Issue 91).
  2. ↑ http://about.intuit.com/about_intuit/executives/brad_smith.jsp. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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