What I do…

… when I’m not writ­ing or rid­ing:

I’m a tech­no­lo­gist and a lead­er. I sup­pose that sounds like I’m full of my­self, but it’s the best way to de­scribe my ca­reer and in­terests with only two words.

In par­tic­u­lar, I seem to keep purs­ing these ques­tions:

• How can tech­no­logy be used to im­prove the im­pact and value of an or­gan­iz­a­tion? (And how can you tell?)
• What makes a good lead­er? (And why do we need lead­ers so much?)
• How do I im­prove my per­son­al pro­ductiv­ity and pos­it­ive im­pact on this plan­et?

Concretely

• I’m the Chief Di­git­al Of­ficer and Head of Tech­no­logy at Me­mori­al Sloan Ket­ter­ing, where my team and I help MSK provide amaz­ing pa­tient care and carry out world-lead­ing re­search in this in­creas­ingly com­plex di­git­al world.

• I’m an In­de­pend­ent Board Mem­ber at Tet­raS­cience, a com­pany that’s chan­ging how life sci­ence com­pan­ies man­age data.

• I’m an ad­visor at Tamr, a very cool data uni­fic­a­tion star­tup.

• For more than a dec­ade, I was the Chief In­form­a­tion Of­ficer at the No­vartis In­sti­tu­tes for Bio­Med­ic­al Re­search. I’ve pos­ted a few of my blogs from that jour­ney.