Mary T. McDowell is on the board of Autodesk, Inc., Informa Plc and Mitel Networks International Ltd. (United Kingdom) and Member-Visitors Board at Uiuc College of Engineering.

In the past she was President & Chief Executive Officer for Mitel Networks Corp., SVP-Strategy & Corporate Development at HP, Inc. and SVP & General Manager-Industry Standard Servers at Compaq Computer Corp. (a subsidiary of HP, Inc.), Executive Vice President-Mobile Phones Unit at Nokia Oyj and Executive Vice President at Nokia USA, Inc. (a subsidiary of Nokia Oyj), Executive Partner at SIRIS Capital Group LLC, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Polycom, Inc. and Executive Vice President & General Manager at Enterprise Solutions, Inc.

Mary T. McDowell received an undergraduate degree from Uiuc College of Engineering.