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Diogo Rau
CIO & Chief Digital Experience Officer - Eli Lilly
AI-accelerated drug discovery and clinical trial optimisation at one of the world’s highest-value pharma companies ($110B+ revenue 2024).
30 CIOs Redefining Enterprise AI
Much of the conversation around artificial intelligence centres on the builders - the founders, the model makers, the researchers pushing the frontier. And rightly so.
But there is another group of leaders whose work deserves equal attention: the Chief Information Officers running AI programmes at a scale, complexity, and consequence that few organisations in the world can match.
Today’s enterprise CIO is not simply maintaining infrastructure. They are the architects of AI transformation inside the institutions that underpin the global economy - managing billions in AI investment, hundreds of live use cases, and technology that touches hundreds of millions of customers, employees, and transactions every day.
At RAISE Summit, we engage with these leaders year-round. The question we hear most from our community is a simple one: who are the CIOs actually doing it? Not the ones discussing AI strategy. The ones deploying it, governing it, and scaling it.
Below are 30 enterprise CIOs from across Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology, Energy, Automotive, and beyond - each leading one of the most significant AI programmes in operation today. These are just some of the many names the AI world should be paying attention to.
Sal Cucchiara
Chief Information Officer - Morgan Stanley
OpenAI-powered AskResearch deployed to 16,000+ financial advisors; multi-year strategic OpenAI partnership publicly disclosed.
Marco Argenti
Chief Information Officer - Goldman Sachs
GS AI Assistant deployed to 10,000+ engineers; multi-LLM platform using Gemini, OpenAI and Llama simultaneously. Expanding to near-total workforce.
Gopi Joshi
Global Chief Information Officer - Mastercard
AI fraud detection running on 143B transactions/year; internal AI productivity tools deployed to 33,000 employees across $9T+ annual payment flows. Forbes CIO Next 2025.
Allan Cockriel
Chief Information Officer - ASML
AI for semiconductor lithography optimisation; ASML AI capabilities are foundational to the global AI chip supply chain serving every major chipmaker worldwide.
Susan Doniz
Chief Digital & Information Officer - The Walt Disney Company
Disney AI for content personalisation across Disney+; AI-driven streaming recommendations cited in earnings calls.
Thomas Ruckert
SVP & Chief Information Officer - Lufthansa Group
Leads the Digital Hangar initiative deploying AI/ML for hyper-personalised passenger services; partnered with Infosys to establish a Global Capability Centre dedicated to AI-driven digital transformation in aviation.
Vishal Talwar
Chief Digital & Information Officer - FedEx
President of FedEx Dataworks and CDIO of FedEx Corp., driving AI-powered supply chain intelligence for 440,000+ employees; spearheading an AI agent workforce initiative (reported WSJ, March 2026) to transform global logistics operations.
Erwin Logt
Chief Information Officer - Danone
AI demand forecasting and nutrition science platform deployed across Danone global portfolio of brands.
Sam Kini
CIO & CISO - Unilever
100% cloud migration across 400+ brands; 25,000 employees trained in AI tools; AI-powered supply chain optimisation reducing inventory waste by double digits.
Katrin Lehman
Chief Information Officer - Mercedes Benz
Deployed GitHub Copilot to 5,000+ Mercedes-Benz software developers saving 30+ minutes per person daily; leads RISE with SAP migration to AWS cloud to enable agentic AI capabilities across the enterprise.
Hanna Hennig
Chief Information Officer - Siemens AG
Siemens AI in industrial automation and Xcelerator digital platform serving 300,000+ industrial customers.
Sabri Albreiki
Chief Information Officer - e& (Etisalat)
Drives e& international’s AI-native network strategy targeting Level 4 autonomous networks; partnered with SK Telecom and Dell to build next-generation AI infrastructure for telco transformation, and keynoted MWC 2026 on AI ecosystem sovereignty.
Chris Nardecchia
Chief Digital & Information Officer - Rockwell Automation
Won the CIO100 Award for ‘Rockwell on Rockwell’ — deploying Rockwell Automation’s own AI-enabled smart manufacturing technology internally to accelerate engineering productivity and enable autonomous factory operations.
Dominique Tessaro
Chief Information Officer - Vinci Energies
Spearheads VINCI Energies’ DIANE initiative — a dedicated AI and data unit deploying solutions across 1,800+ business units in 50+ countries with a mission to halve time spent on automatable tasks.
Vivek Gurumurthy
SVP & Chief Information Officer - Verizon
AI for 5G network management and customer service automation; AI investments cited in multiple Verizon annual reports across 200M+ customer relationships.
Alisa Choong
SVP & Chief Information Officer - Shell
Shell AI predictive maintenance and energy trading; strategic C3.ai partnership for AI applications across global operations.
Alessandro De Luca
Global Chief Information Officer - Merck
AI-powered R&D and digital lab transformation; AI in manufacturing quality control at global scale across $21B+ revenue.
Cindy Hoots
Chief Information Officer - AstraZeneca
Multi-year BenevolentAI and AWS partnership for AI-driven R&D; AI in drug discovery and manufacturing quality control.
Steve George
Global Chief Information Officer - EY
Spearheaded the launch of EY.ai (2023) — EY’s unified AI framework deployed across 400,000+ professionals in 150+ countries following a $1.4B investment in AI and technology.
Jim Swanson
EVP & Chief Information Officer - Johnson & Johnson
AI embedded across J&J drug discovery, supply chain and clinical trials; AI governance strategy featured in J&J annual reports.
Cynthia Stoddard
SVP & SVP & Chief Information Officer - Intel
From scaling Adobe Firefly's generative AI across Creative Cloud to her current role at Intel, Cynthia brings hands-on experience taking enterprise AI from zero to billions of outputs at global scale.
Rani Johnson
Chief Information Officer - Workday
AI/ML natively embedded across Workday HCM and Finance platform; AI-powered features deployed to 10,000+ enterprise customers.
Atish Banerjea
Chief Information Officer - Meta
Oversaw Meta AI infrastructure scaling including Llama model deployment and integration of AI research into consumer products at 3B+ user scale.
Gianni Leone
Global Chief Information Officer - SEPHORA
Sephora Virtual Artist AI; personalised beauty AI serving millions across digital and in-store channels.
Guy-Laurent Arpino
Chief Information Officer - Louis Dreyfus Company
Building an integrated data and AI platform at LDC ($50B+ commodity trading), deploying AI to accelerate trading decisions and supply chain insights; serves on the board of Covantis, the AI-blockchain post-trade automation platform for global agri-sector operations.
Mohamed Abdel Razek
Chief Information Officer - Mashreq Bank
Recognised as UAE most AI-advanced bank; AI embedded across 70%+ of banking operations and customer journeys.
Stuart Riley
CTO & CIO - HSBC
Leads HSBC’s AI strategy as Group CIO with hundreds of live AI use cases across fraud detection, KYC and customer service; spearheading a Mistral AI partnership for enterprise-wide generative AI adoption targeting every employee.
Heather Blair
Chief Information Officer - Wells Fargo
Fargo AI virtual assistant serving 70M+ customers; AI fraud detection processing millions of daily transactions.
Lori Beer
Global Chief Information Officer - JPMorgan Chase
$2B+ annual AI/ML investment; 400+ AI use cases in production incl. real-time fraud detection and document intelligence at global scale.
Why This List Matters
This is not a ranking. It is a signal.
The organisations these CIOs lead collectively serve billions of people, process trillions in economic activity, and operate across industries that form the backbone of the global economy. When they move on AI - it moves.
What unites them is not a single technology or vendor relationship. It is a shared conviction that AI is not a future state - it is a present-tense competitive imperative. And they are building the infrastructure, governance, and organisational capability to prove it.
This is the first in a series from RAISE Labs tracking the executives redefining enterprise technology leadership in the age of AI. Future editions will cover CTOs, CDOs, and Chief AI Officers across global industries.
Want to meet more of the leaders redefining enterprise technology join us: RAISE Summit returns to Paris, July 8–9, 2026. Register now →
Compiled by RAISE Labs — the intelligence and research division of RAISE Summit.
