Diane Brink

Ms. Diane Brink is currently an Independent Director for Belden, a publicly traded provider of end-to-end signal transmission solutions, where she is chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Cybersecurity Committee. She is also a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Kellogg Markets and Customers Initiative, Northwestern University.

Prior to this, Ms. Brink served as IBM’s Chief Marketing Officer for Global Technology Services. Over her 35 year career with IBM, she held a variety of senior leadership positions including head of Worldwide Integrated Marketing Communications with responsibility for managing and promoting the IBM brand. She also was Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IBM Americas, Vice President of Distribution Channels Management, Systems Group and General Manager, IBM Middle Markets, Midwest.

In addition to her public company board roles, she has board experience with nonprofit industry institutions including the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the Advanced Energy Research & Technology Center (AERTC), and the Iona Preparatory School. Ms. Brink currently serves on the Dean’s Council for the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University. She is a Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Ms. Brink holds a Master’s in Business Administration in Finance from Fordham University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.