Todd Pierce, chief digital officer at the Beal and Melinda Gates Foundation, is leaving after 18 months, the group confirmed to GeekWire on Friday.
“Todd Pierce and the inspiration’s management workforce have collectively determined that Todd will step down as chief digital officer,” the inspiration stated in a press release. “We thank Todd for his work and management over the previous 18 months, together with constructing a robust management workforce, investing within the private growth of the broader IT workforce, and pushing us to take dangers and undertake digital instruments (social, cell, analytics) and so on.) the cloud) to speed up the Foundation’s core work. Chief Operating Officer Leigh Morgan will function the Foundation’s interim IT Director.”
Pierce joined the Gates Foundation in April 2015 in a then-new position. A press launch at the time quoted Morgan as saying.
“Todd brings intensive management expertise in life sciences, know-how and biopharmaceutical organizations, in addition to the general public sector,” Morgan stated. “His sturdy dedication to expertise growth, mixed with a deep understanding of cross-functional operations, will allow Todd to design and lead an more and more built-in know-how and digital platform technique in service of the Foundation’s mission.”
At the top of June this yr, the inspiration introduced that it will minimize 33 positions in its IT division. “Growth and the altering digital surroundings prompted us to rethink the organizational construction of our IT division,” a spokesperson stated in a GeekWire report.
Prior to the Gates Foundation, Pierce was a senior vp at Salesforce. His biography on the inspiration’s web site states that earlier than becoming a member of Salesforce, he “spent greater than 20 years within the healthcare trade, together with 10 years as Chief Information Officer at Genentech, overseeing the corporate’s transition to cloud and Principal at Genentech, main Roche’s pharmaceutical IT and enterprise infrastructure.” He has additionally held a number of public sector management positions, together with serving as Chief Information Officer at the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Santa Clara County.
