Over the past five years, Mr. Smoley has helped lead AZ’s performance turnaround by reducing drug development cycle times and improving physician and patient engagement. New, innovative systems and services continue to differentiate AZ from the competition. While partnering closely with the business to drive tech innovation, Mr. Smoley reduced IT spending by more than $800m (48%) over three years. In doing so, he restructured the IT workforce, the application strategy, and the IT infrastructure footprint. Over this period multiple new cloud systems were deployed, new technology centers were staffed in India and Mexico, digital innovation has accelerated, and customer satisfaction is at an all-time high.

Prior to AstraZeneca, Mr. Smoley was CIO at $28 billion revenue global manufacturing services firm Flextronics for six years where he was recognized as a technology innovator. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Clemson University and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Leading IT publication, CIO Magazine has included Mr. Smoley in their “CIO Hall of Fame.” InformationWeek ranked Mr. Smoley as one of the “Top 50 Global CIOs — IT Leaders Changing the Business World” and ComputerWorld identified him as one of their “Premier 100 IT Leaders Class of 2010”. Mr. Smoley sits on the advisory board for multiple growth stage technology companies (Box.com, Skyhigh, Workday, Greylock) and was previously on the advisory board to InformationWeek.

Colbert is responsible for overseeing all aspects of information technology, information security, data and analytics across the global reach of the company and for supporting the growth of Boeing’s business by partnering with the company’s business units on IT and analytics related revenue generating programs.

Colbert became CIO in 2013. In his previous role as vice president of Information Technology Infrastructure, Colbert was responsible for developing and maintaining IT solutions inclusive of network, computing, server, storage, collaboration and infrastructure across the entire Boeing enterprise. He was named to this position in December 2011.

Her knowledge spans across e-commerce, financial, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services and industrial domains with companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, GE, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, Bank of America, e*trade and a number of Silicon Valley startups. She is currently the Global Vice President for Big data, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation at HPE. Prior to that she was the Vice President of Innovation and Data Sciences at GE. She is also the Founder and CEO of nonprofit, Humans For AI Inc. She has co-authored the book “AI Transforming Business”.

A well-recognised thought leader and keynote speaker in the industry, she also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board at Cal Poly University and is a Board Advisor to several startups including Predii, iguazio, CliniVantage and ProjectileX.

Beena has been honored several times for her contribution to tech and her philanthropic efforts, including the San Francisco Business Times’ 2017 Most Influential Women in Bay Area, WITI’s Women in Technology Hall of Fame, National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Multicultural Leaders in Tech, CIO.com and Drexel University’s Analytics 50 innovator, Forbes Top 8 Female Analytics Experts, Women Super Achiever Award from World Women’s Leadership Congress and Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame.

Beena thrives on envisioning and architecting how data, artificial intelligence and technology can make our world a better, easier place to live.