Speaker, 2022 IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit – Region 5 (WIE ILS – Baton Rouge)

Biography

Sandra K. Johnson is the Founder, CEO & CTO of Global Mobile Finance, Inc., a fintech startup company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. It has developed geeRemit, a relationship-driven remittance mobile app for Africa. She is also the Founder of SKJ Visioneering, LLC, a technology consulting company, a Visiting Scholar at North Carolina A&T State University, and an Independent Director on the Board of Directors for the Regional Management Corporation. She has obtained many firsts in her 30+ year technology career. She had a 26-year IBM career, including serving as the CTO of IBM Central, East, and West Africa. She is a Master Inventor with over 40 pending and issued patents and over 80 technical publications. Dr. Johnson earned B.S. (summa cum laude), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, from Southern University, Stanford University, and Rice University, respectively. She is a member of IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is also an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Engineer.