About the Commissioner
Jenefer Hughes is a Chartered Accountant with thirty years of
business experience in some of the largest corporations in the United
States, including Ernst and Young and Hewlett Packard. Most recently,
she was Director of Accounting at McKesson, where her team handled over
$5 Billion worth of transactions annually. Under her leadership, the
team streamlined and automated their processes, reducing their workload
by one-third and improving the quality of service delivered to their
business partners.
Jenefer has a track record of building relationships across diverse
stakeholder groups to deliver results for her customers. She led HP's
Managed Print Services delivery team for the U.S. Postal Service, where
she turned around a fractured customer relationship and grew HP's
business in the process, while reducing USPS's printing costs. When USPS
launched their Green Initiative to develop programs to improve
environmental stewardship, she led her team to update printer settings,
which resulted in lower paper and toner consumption and saved USPS
$600,000 per year.
As General Manager for GTECH corporation, for whom she managed the
State of Idaho's Lottery and Fish Game systems. Her team operated both
IT systems, serviced and then replaced 1,600 POS terminals throughout
the State, which supported the Lottery's goal to transfer over $20
million per year to support Idaho's schools and allowed the Department
of Fish and Game to validate license eligibility at the time of
purchase. When both agencies approached her to help mitigate escalating
communications costs and degrading service, her team worked with them to
upgrade to a satellite communications infrastructure, saving the State
at least $250,000 per year and stabilizing costs over the long term.
Personal Background
Jenefer was born in England, and lived and worked in Europe until
1997, when she was given the opportunity to move to the USA to become
Regional Finance Manager for GTECH's Western Region. Two years later,
she moved to Boise, ID for work, met and married her ex-husband and had
two beautiful children. She became a U.S. citizen on June 5, 2008, and it
was one of the proudest moments of her life. She moved from Boise, ID to
Bon Air in 2009 for the schools and the quality of life offered in the
County.
She is a single parent, soccer mom and taxi driver for two
amazing teenagers, who have attended Chesterfield County public schools
since first grade. Previously, she served as President of Giraffe Laugh
preschool, which provided free and reduced childcare for single parents
working to build a better future for their families.
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