Drew Smith is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for OhioHealth, where he works with leaders and associates across the system to improve patient outcomes, strengthen associate and community engagement, as well boost financial and operational metrics through the use of data enabled insights. He and his team are responsible for foundational, as well advanced capabilities including Data Governance, Data Engineering, BI and specialty analytics as well stand alone and embedded Data Science and AI. In his most recent role prior to OhioHealth Drew was the Vice President of Global Data and Analytics for Little Caesar’s Enterprises and Ilitch Holdings where he led the work of enabling data-driven decisioning. He has worked for the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) where he led the Analytics Leadership Consortium, working with CDOs, VPs and Directors from Fortune 500 companies across several sectors. Before the IIA Drew held several positions at IKEA leading: the national commercial analytics functions based in the US HQ, a global divisional analytics function based in the Global Product Development HQ in Sweden, as well as the first global enterprise analytics function based at the Global Retail HQ in the Netherlands.

Drew has a Bachelor’s in History and Political Science from Boston University and an MBA from The Smeal College of Business at Penn State.