Pharmaceuticals
10 AstraZeneca IT leaders
These ten current and former AstraZeneca IT leaders, including AstraZeneca's Group Chief Information Officer, have held chief information officer, vice president and director roles in AstraZeneca's IT organization. A reader can learn how IT leaders lead technology organizations in pharmaceutical businesses.
Professionals to explore
01—10Andrew Chen
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer - AZ China · AstraZeneca
Former Chief Information Officer - AZ China at AstraZeneca (2011–2014), based in Shanghai, and former Chief Technology Officer at AstraZeneca (2014–2017), based in San Francisco. The profile also lists Senior Director - Information Services at AstraZeneca (2006–2011), Chief Information Officer at Seagen (2018–2020) and Chief Information Officer at Kite Pharma (2020–2023).
Chris Taylor
LinkedInExperience: Group Chief Information Officer · AstraZeneca
Group Chief Information Officer at AstraZeneca since February 2026. The profile also lists Group Chief Digital and Information Officer at Stellantis (2022–2026), Chief Transformation Officer at ServiceNow (2021–2022) and Vice President roles at Airbus covering Airbus Commercial Cyber Security (2018–2021) and the Airbus Digital Accelerator (2017–2021).
David Smoley
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · AstraZeneca
Former Chief Information Officer at AstraZeneca from January 2013 to January 2019, a six-year role the profile places at the C-level in the Engineering and Technical department. The listing also shows a 2018 post Smoley shared about looking for entrepreneurial commercial IT leaders.
Dinesh Krishnan
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director - Core Functions IT · AstraZeneca
Executive Director - Core Functions IT at AstraZeneca since September 2025, and former Global Head of Enterprise Platforms at AstraZeneca (2022–2025), a Cambridge-based Director-level role. The profile also lists Global Head of Information and Digital Technology - HR, LEX and IT at BAT (2018–2022) and Global IT Programme Manager at BAT (2014–2018).
Fay Dickinson
LinkedInExperience: IT Director, HBS Transformation IT Lead · AstraZeneca
IT Director, HBS Transformation IT Lead at AstraZeneca since March 2023, based in Cambridge. Other AstraZeneca roles on the profile are IT Director - Head of Project Management, Data, Analytics & AI (2021–2023), IT Programme Director - Data Science & AI (2020–2021) and Senior IT Project Manager (2018–2019).
Jeff Haskill
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Enterprise Technology Services · AstraZeneca
Vice President, Enterprise Technology Services at AstraZeneca since May 2014; the profile describes driving AstraZeneca's global IT services, including networking, infrastructure, global computing and storage, data centres, cloud management, digital workspace, collaboration services and help desks. The profile also lists Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer at Flex (2013–2014).
Pam Cheng
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President - Global Operations & IT and CSO · AstraZeneca
Executive Vice President - Global Operations & IT and CSO at AstraZeneca since June 2015; the profile headline gives the role as Executive Vice President - Global Operations & IT, Chief Sustainability Officer. The profile describes a career spanning manufacturing operations, pharmaceutical development, supply chain and logistics, commercial operations and information technology, and lists President, MSD China at Merck (2011–2015).
Pradeep Kumar
LinkedInExperience: Director, Enterprise Technology Services · AstraZeneca
Director, Enterprise Technology Services at AstraZeneca since December 2024 and Regional Lead, Command center & Major Incident Management there since 2022. The profile describes experience in insourcing, transition and transformation, IT service delivery and operations and a global command center, and lists Associate Director, IT (2018–2023) and Tower Lead, End User Services (2016–2018) at AstraZeneca.
Russell Smith
LinkedInExperience: Vice President ERP Transformation Technology · AstraZeneca
Vice President ERP Transformation Technology at AstraZeneca since April 2022; the profile places Smith on the IT Leadership Team at AstraZeneca. Other AstraZeneca roles listed are Head of Enabling Units IT (2019–2023), Head of IT HR, Legal and Global Sustainability (2016–2019) and Global Head Human Resources IT (2014–2016).
Siva Kumar Padmanabhan
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. & VP, Enterprise Capabilities & Solutions, Global IT · AstraZeneca
Managing Director, AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. & VP, Enterprise Capabilities & Solutions, Global IT at AstraZeneca since October 2014; the profile says the managing director role covers responsibility for the company's Global Digital Technology Center in Chennai. The profile also lists Vice President, IT at Flex (2011–2014) and Director, Supply Chain Systems at McKesson (2002–2006).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a global pharmaceutical company decide which IT services to run centrally and which to run in regional or country teams?
- 02How do you plan and govern a large ERP transformation without disrupting regulated operations?
- 03What role should a global technology or capability center play inside a large company's IT organization?
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