Executive Profiles

Brad Smith

President and Chief Executive Officer

Brad Smith became Intuit's president and chief executive officer in January 2008, culminating a five-year rise through the company in which he successfully led each of its major businesses.

Upon assuming his new position, Smith outlined three priorities for Intuit's continued growth: rigorous portfolio management, unleashing the power of Intuit's ecosystem, and global expansion.

In this vision, portfolio management includes continuing Intuit's relentless pursuit of customer-driven innovation, expanding its array of small business products and services, and accelerating Intuit's core growth engines. The power of Intuit's ecosystem is built on its legacy of innovation that has produced large user bases. By unleashing the insights and contributions of millions of end users, Smith intends to drive innovation in all its forms – customer-driven, business model-driven, technology-driven and market-driven – to new levels. And finally, Smith is taking a global approach to marketing Intuit's products and services.

Before being named CEO, Smith was senior vice president and general manager of Intuit's Small Business Division. Appointed to this position in May 2006, Smith was responsible for the company's portfolio of QuickBooks, Quicken and Payroll products, serving 7 million small businesses and producing $1.1 billion in revenue. With more than 2,500 employees, the division is Intuit's largest business unit. He previously ran the company's QuickBooks Group from May 2005 to May 2006.

Before moving to QuickBooks, Smith led the company's Consumer Tax Group in San Diego from March 2004 through May 2005. The group produces TurboTax, the nation's leading consumer tax preparation software which, under Smith's leadership, served more than 20 million tax filers and produced more than $700 million in revenue.

Previously, he was vice president and general manager of Intuit's Accountant Central and Developer Network in Plano, Texas. Before joining Intuit in February 2003, Smith was senior vice president of marketing and business development at ADP. He has also held various sales, marketing and general management positions with Pepsi, Seven-Up and Advo, Inc.

Smith earned his master's degree in management from Aquinas College in Michigan and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Marshall University in West Virginia.