Jodie Brinkerhoff is Vice President of Innovation at DFW Airport and leads the Innovation team’s efforts to investigate, ideate, incubate and implement new products and solutions for the airport. Her team works across the enterprise, partnering with core business units and bringing in emerging technologies as enablers to solve problems. She is also responsible for development of innovation skill building and culture initiatives for employees.
Jodie is passionate about understanding new trends and emerging technologies, inspiring transformational corporate culture, and building what’s right for the customer. She has a love of work with both start-up ventures and corporate enterprises — her favorite depends on the day.
Prior to joining DFW, Jodie was the North American lead for Mastercard Labs in New York. From 2010 – 2016, Jodie was SVP at Fuel Cycle, a software-as-a-service start up. In her early career, Jodie sold consulting for several global research providers, including Mintel Group Ltd and Harris Interactive (owners of The Harris Poll.)
Jodie is a founding Advisory Board member of the leadership organization, Women Leading Travel & Hospitality, and a member of the Women’s Empowerment Initiative within the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC). She also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Jim McNatt Institute for Logistics Research at the University of North Texas, whose mission is to engage in a collaborative convergence of science, technology, engineering, math, arts, and design in logistics systems and enterprises through preeminent research.
Jodie holds a BA in Communications from Loyola University in Maryland and MBA in marketing and e-commerce from the University of San Francisco.
Jodie Brinkerhoff is Vice President of Innovation at DFW Airport and leads the Innovation team’s efforts to investigate, ideate, incubate and implement new products and solutions for the airport. Her team works across the enterprise, partnering with core business units and bringing in emerging technologies as enablers to solve problems. She is also responsible for development of innovation skill building and culture initiatives for employees.
Jodie is passionate about understanding new trends and emerging technologies, inspiring transformational corporate culture, and building what’s right for the customer. She has a love of work with both start-up ventures and corporate enterprises — her favorite depends on the day.
Prior to joining DFW, Jodie was the North American lead for Mastercard Labs in New York. From 2010 – 2016, Jodie was SVP at Fuel Cycle, a software-as-a-service start up. In her early career, Jodie sold consulting for several global research providers, including Mintel Group Ltd and Harris Interactive (owners of The Harris Poll.)
Jodie is a founding Advisory Board member of the leadership organization, Women Leading Travel & Hospitality, and a member of the Women’s Empowerment Initiative within the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC). She also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Jim McNatt Institute for Logistics Research at the University of North Texas, whose mission is to engage in a collaborative convergence of science, technology, engineering, math, arts, and design in logistics systems and enterprises through preeminent research.
Jodie holds a BA in Communications from Loyola University in Maryland and MBA in marketing and e-commerce from the University of San Francisco.
