Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure, AstraZeneca

Rob is the Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure for AstraZeneca and serves as a member of its IT Leadership Team. He has both strategic and budgetary oversight governing AstraZeneca’s global hosting and transport estate, including four hyperscalers and 8 datacenters; enabling more than 250k users, at 153 sites, across 147 countries.

He brings over 20 years of experience designing, deploying, and managing web-scale, mission critical systems. Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Rob served as Northrop Grumman’s Chief Technologist for Cloud and Chief Cloud Architect, leading the company’s extensive adoption of cloud and cloud native technologies.

Rob began his career serving with the Judge Advocate Corps of the US Marine Corps and has held several varied and progressive technical and managerial leadership roles. For the past 14 years in particular, Rob has worked extensively with cloud services and technologies, spearheading the planning and execution of large-scale cloud adoption and migration efforts across a host of Fortune 500, multinational corporations.

Rob holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Technologies and Information Systems from the University of Mary Washington, and a Master’s of Business Administration from George Mason University. He is married to Captain Mercedes M. Wenier, US Army (retired), and has two sons, Ethan 14, and Peter 11.