Date started current role: April 2017 Location: Denver, CO Purnima Wagle is CIO and Vice President, Information Technology, for DCP Midstream. She has more than 25 years of global corporate experience working for medium to large multi-national companies in industries that span oil and gas, high tech, automotive and supply chain. What was your first job? Programmer Analyst Trainee at Tata Motors, a leading global automobile manufacturing company. Did you always want to work in IT? It has always been my passion to work in IT; it has given me the opportunity to comprehend all facets of the organisation like Supply Chain, Operations, Services, Engineering, Finance, & HR. I had a deep appreciation for the logical composable structures and enjoyed writing code to automate repetitive tasks and solve business problems.