Adele J. Suddes
Vice President, Communications
Textron Inc.

Adele Suddes is vice president, Communications where she is responsible for shaping and driving Textron's internal, external and marketing communications as well as Textron's community affairs department. She leads the Textron Communications Council and the Textron Marketing and Sales Council and is a member of Textron's Executive Leadership Team.

Suddes previously served as executive director of Communications and Marketing for Textron, a position she had held since December 2008. Prior to that, she was executive director of Marketing and Sales for Textron. Suddes joined Textron Financial Corporation in 2000 and assumed assignments of increasing responsibility in the areas of marketing and sales. As executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Textron Financial, she provided strategic and tactical marketing support to the various multi-national and industry and product segments of the business. Prior to joining to Textron, she was a marketing executive at the Gulf Division of Cumberland Farms.

Suddes earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from Bryant University. She has completed the Thunderbird Executive Leadership Program at the Garvin School of International Management, the Leadership at the Peak Program at the Center for Creative Leadership and the Growth Leadership Program at Ohio State University.