Bio

With eight (8) patents issued and 21 filed, Sol has been awarded “CAO of the Year” “50 Most Powerful Women in Tech”, “Top 20 CDOs”, and ”Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics” many years in a row. Energetic and a goal oriented thought leader, Sol is skilled at coupling her technical acumen with story-telling abilities to articulate the business value and get organizations comfortable at leaning into technology as a competitive advantage, while preserving the legacy in which a company was founded upon. Skilled at creating a vision and developing linkages between strategy and execution in order to build scalable and cohesive paths forward, Sol’s specialty is influencing change and creating communities amongst technologist and non-technologists by rolling up her sleeves and getting into the details while keeping the strategic intent in mind. Sol uses her execution-oriented mindset to help develop products, platforms, and services that enable businesses to push past their capabilities, establish stronger positioning in the marketplace, and create a competitive advantage when using the latest advancements in DeepTech, AI, Automation, Data Science, Engineering, Product Development, Data Visualization, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure, and more. Throughout her career, Sol has lead and developed E2E ecosystems where data & tech are used to unlocking business value, generating fast insights, and creating frictionless experiences - pioneering some of the early advancement in the space. Her ethos has always been focused on: uncomplicating the complicated, focus on the business & consumer value, avoid over-architecting a solution, know when to leverage AI vs. not, and know - not everything needs to be cutting edge, sometimes the innovation comes from just cutting through the noise. **Sectors served: Media & Entertainment, CPG, Travel & Hospitality, Healthcare, FinTech, Life Sciences/Pharma, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and more. Prior to joining Estée Lauder, Sol was Chief Data & Analytics Officer for Merck, EVP & Chief Data Officer for Sony Music, the Chief Data & AI Officer for Royal Caribbean, AI, Data & Analytics Partner at Ernst & Young, Chief Information & Digital Officer for Soli, and involved with launching IBM's ''Watson'' into the market place, pioneering some of IBM’s latest advances in Enterprise Information Management.