Top 10: Chief Digital Officers

The world’s leading Chief Digital Officers are transforming global enterprises through AI, cloud-native platforms and data-driven innovation across industries, including finance, mining, healthcare, retail and logistics – delivering billions in value while embedding sustainability, cybersecurity and customer-centric experiences into their respective business’ practices.

From Pfizer’s AI drug discovery to LEGO’s hybrid play worlds, their strategies redefine industry resilience and growth in an agentic AI era.​

10. Tricia Blair

Role: Chief Digital Officer
Company: Aon
Revenue: US$15.7bn (2024)
Employees: 60,000+​​​​​​​
Founded: 1982

Tricia is Aon’s CDO, driving digital strategy, marketing, customer experience and technology implementations for the company’s Affinity organisation.​

With more than 25 years of experience in marketing, technology and high value business transformations, she previously held CDO roles at Lincoln Financial Group and leadership positions at JPMorgan Chase and MasterCard.

Tricia is recognised for modernising Aon’s platforms by championing API-driven architectures, cloud-native applications and low-code solutions that accelerate product delivery and customisation.

9. Ronald den Elzen

Role: Chief Digital & Technology Officer
Company: The HEINEKEN Company​​​​​​​
Revenue: US$32bn (2024)​​​​​​​
Employees: 85,000+​​​​​​​
Founded: 1864

Role: Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer
Company: Swiss Re
Insurance revenue: US445.6bn (2024)
Employees: 15,000+​​​​​​​
Founded: 1863

Visna spearheads e-commerce acceleration, data-driven personalisation and AI-enhanced consumer experiences at L’Oréal, covering more than 150 markets.​

With more than 20 years in digital strategy, she previously led digital transformation at Unilever and held key roles at LVMH and Procter & Gamble, mastering omnichannel retail and beauty tech innovation.​

Visna champions sustainable digital ecosystems, integrating AR try-ons, Gen AI for product discovery and privacy-first analytics to boost engagement while advancing L’Oréal’s green beauty initiatives.​

7. Dominic Venturo

Role: Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer
Company: US Bank​​​​​​​
Revenue: US$42.7bn (2024)​​​​​​​
Employees: 70,000+​​​​​​​
Founded: 1893

As Senior EVP & Chief Digital Officer at US Bank, Dominic directs digital strategy, mobile banking, payments innovation and customer experience across one of America’s largest banks.​

He has more than 25 years in financial services technology, he previously led digital transformation at US Bancorp from 2015, pioneering contactless payments, AI-powered fraud detection and open banking ecosystems.​

Dominic drives data-centric personalisation and cybersecurity resilience, integrating Gen AI for real-time advisory services while expanding fintech partnerships to enhance financial inclusion nationwide.​

6. Shawn Lyndon

Role: Chief Digital Officer
Company: Rio Tinto​​​​​​​
Revenue: US$53.7bn
Employees: 60,000
Founded: 1873

As Chief Digital Officer at mining giant Rio Tinto since November 2023, Shawn established and led the company’s global digital transformation initiatives, focusing on developing innovative digital products.

Prior to Rio Tinto, Shawn worked eight years in Google Engineering, most recently as Group Product Manager for Google Consumer Trust.

There, he conceived and led Enterprise and AI products and later launched multiple user privacy and security products for Google Search and Bard (now Gemini). 

5. Sean Ringsted

Role: Chief Digital Business Officer and Chief Analytics Officer
Company: Chubb​​​​​​​
Revenue: US$55.8bn (2024)​​​​​​​
Employees: 43,000​​​​​​​
Founded: 1882

As Chief Digital Business Officer and Chief Analytics Officer at the world’s largest publicly-traded property and casualty insurer, Sean leads Chubb’s 100% digital business unit.

This involves overseeing revenue, product and capability development with digitally native platforms, financial institutions and traditional agent and broker partners worldwide.

Sean has worked in insurance for more than 30 years and is responsible for embedding data, analytics and AI into decision-making across underwriting, risk and customer experience, building a seamlessly integrated digital operating model. 

4. Bala Subramanian

Role: Chief Digital and Technology Officer
Company: UPS
Revenue: US$91.1bn (2024)
Employees: ~490,000
Founded: 1907

Bala has been EVP & Chief Digital and Technology Officer at UPS since 2022, leading digital transformation, technology strategy, industrial engineering, data sciences and cybersecurity for the global logistics giant.​

Role: Chief AI, Data and Analytics Officer
Company: Lincoln Financial
Revenue: US$18.4bn (2024)
Employees: 10,000+
Founded: 1905

Neel joined Lincoln Financial from BlackRock in December 2025.

In the newly-created position of Chief AI, Data and Analytics Officer, he reports directly to CEO Ellen Cooper and joins the Senior Management Committee, tasked with embedding AI and data as core enterprise capabilities across underwriting, claims, operations and customer engagement.​

Neel’s mandate focuses on disciplined AI adoption to enhance efficiency, customer experiences and innovation in Lincoln’s annuities, life insurance and retirement services, leveraging his BlackRock success in client-facing AI platforms.

2. Atul Bhardwaj

Role: EVP and Chief Digital & Technology Officer
Company: The LEGO Group
Revenue: US$10.9bn (2024)
Employees: 31,000
Founded: ​​​​​​​1932

Atul has been Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Technology Officer at The LEGO Group since November 2020, joining from MediaMarktSaturn.​

He leads LEGO’s digital transformation, overseeing the development of digital products and experiences that complement the iconic physical brick, including consumer-facing apps, underlying technology platforms, security and data ecosystems.​

With a decade as one of Tesco’s two CIOs and having started his career as an Accenture partner, Atul drives AI-enhanced personalisation, AR/VR play experiences and scalable cloud infrastructure to engage more than 100 million annual digital users while preserving LEGO’s creative legacy.

Under his leadership, LEGO has accelerated cloud-native migrations, Gen AI for product ideation and sustainable tech initiatives, positioning the brand as a hybrid physical-digital powerhouse while fostering inclusive play for future generations.

1. Lidia Fonseca

Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Technology Officer
Company: Pfizer
Revenue: US$63.6bn (2024)
Employees: ~81,000
Founded: ​​​​​​​1849

Lidia spearheads Pfizer’s enterprise-wide digital, AI and technology strategy while leading Learning and Development and Business Process Excellence.​

With more than 25 years in healthcare, she drives patient outcomes through innovation across drug discovery, clinical trials, manufacturing and commercialisation, leveraging data platforms, cloud infrastructure and predictive analytics.​

Instrumental in accelerating Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine response via real-time digital collaboration and supply chain orchestration, Lidia now advances an AI roadmap projected to deliver billions in value through Gen AI drug design, personalised medicine and operational efficiencies.​

Previously CIO at Quest Diagnostics, she created the innovative Quanum brand of healthcare IT solutions, transforming lab data into actionable insights for providers and patients worldwide.​