Colin J. Parris is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at GE Digital, a position he held from May 2020 until April 2024. He joined General Electric in 2014 as the Vice President, GE Software Research.
As GE Digital’s Chief Technology Officer, Colin Parris led teams that worked to leverage technologies and capabilities across GE to accelerate business impact and create scale advantage for digital transformation.
Prior to GE, Parris worked at IBM where he was an IBM executive for 16 years. In roles that spanned research, software development, technology management, and P&L management.
Parris has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University, Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master’s degree in Management from Stanford University. He also has a Ph.D in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
