Angela A. Buonocore serves as Xylem’s Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, a role she assumed when the company was spun off from ITT Corporation in October 2011. In this role, she is responsible for global brand and reputation management, public relations, employee communications, corporate advertising and corporate philanthropy. She joined ITT Corporation in 2007 as Vice President and Director of Corporate Relations, and was promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer in May 2008. Previously she was Vice President, Corporate Communications for The Pepsi Bottling Group from 2001 to 2007. Prior to her 12-year career in the PepsiCo system, Ms. Buonocore spent 11 years with IBM and five years at General Electric Company in a series of increasingly responsible internal and external communications roles. Ms. Buonocore is a trustee of the Arthur W. Page Society and the Institute for Public Relations, and a member of the Wisemen and the Seminar, all organizations of senior corporate communications executives. In 2003, she was elected a member of the Accademia Europea per le Relazioni Econimiche e Culturali, a Rome-based organization that honors Italians and Italian-Americans who are leaders in their fields. In 2010, she was honored by the National Organization for Women’s founding New York City chapter as a Woman of Power and Influence. Ms. Buonocore holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising with high honors from the University of Florida and was honored as a Distinguished Alumna of the College of Journalism and Communications in May 2007.