Rachel Smith

Global Head of Enterprise Data Governance McKesson

Rachel is a high-performing technology executive with more than 20 years of IT leadership experience, including leading large-scale teams, start-up launches, scaled agile adoption, cloud migration and implementation, vendor management and planning, training design and delivery, strategic planning, and sourcing initiatives. She is an enthusiast who possess a commitment for defining practical but powerful strategies for the long-term success of organizations. She is currently the Vice-President Strategic Execution & Transformation for McKesson Technology’s Transformation Office at McKesson Corporation. In this role, Rachel has responsibility for driving focus and execution of MT’s enterprise strategy, strategic plans, and technology roadmaps. Her role includes ensuring delivery of technology capabilities that are innovative, reliable, sustainable, and cost-effective. Additionally, she works closely with the C-Suite executive leadership team and Business Unit CIOs to drive decisions about information and technology investments, transformative opportunities, and emerging tools & technologies. Prior to joining McKesson, Rachel worked at AT&T for 20 years in various leadership and executive roles. She chartered multiple transformation initiatives in AT&T’s Chief Data Office, including outlining the strategy for next generation technology and development of the three-roadmap to move from legacy technology to public cloud infrastructure. Rachel’s team designed the unified data platform infrastructure to support data analysts and scientists in delivering nearly $1B in return on investments. The outcomes led to new self-service data engineering capabilities and decreased data platform costs (~27M in 2019). She also led start-activities within AT&T, including the Big Data @ AT&T initiative that launched the efforts to transform AT&T into a data-powered business through advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Kennesaw State University and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Georgia State University. She is a committed member of Sigma Gamma Rho, Incorporated and serves as the Southwestern Region advisor to the Rhoer Club. She serves as a Board Member on two non-profits: Family Gateway Service and Kids Matter, International and is passionate about combatting homelessness and helping kids in needs of critical services and programs. Her hobbies include golf, skiing, and traveling.