Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. announced that May Russell has joined the Company as its first-ever chief digital officer. In this newly established role, Russell will lead the Company's digital strategy and digital transformation as well as enterprise information technology. Russell joins Fortune Brands from Ford Motor Company, where she most recently served as chief technology officer of Ford Commercial Solutions.

In that role, she led an organization of over 2,000 digital professionals and had global responsibility for the award-winning Ford and Lincoln apps, the digital consumer interface for all vehicles, and the digitization of fleet management. During her almost 20-year tenure at Ford, Russell served in several other roles, including co-leading Digital and Agile transformation. Russell joined Ford after spending several years at Ernst and Young.