Dream Job

When Michelle McKenna-Doyle worked in the finance department at Walt Disney World, she grew tired of entering numbers on spreadsheets. She just couldn't understand why Disney was paying for lists of information about its customers when it had so much rich data at its fingertips. That's when she started asking questions.

McKenna-Doyle says curiosity about the way things worked is how she transitioned from finance and marketing to IT. She worked her way up to vice president of IT at Walt Disney Co. to CIO of Centix Destination Properties. She has also held that title at Universal Orland Resort and Constellation Energy.

It's also how she scored her dream job as chief information officer and a senior vice president of the National Football League, the professional football organization with around $10 billion in annual revenue. McKenna-Doyle leads nearly 400 employees, working on everything from NFL Network, to NFL films, to its digital app, NFL Now. She's also in charge of all game-related technology, including everything from coaches' headsets and digital playbooks to gathering player statistics.