Vipin Gopal, PhD, MBA, is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Eli Lilly, a Fortune 150 Global Pharmaceutical company. In this role, he is responsible for leading next‐gen, transformational data strategy and execution across the Lilly enterprise, as well as development of advanced analytics capabilities and data science solutions for the company. Vipin is a 25‐year veteran in the space of advanced data and analytics and has a significant track record of building high‐performance data analytics functions and creating business value with advanced technologies.

His prior leadership experience spans four Fortune 100 companies in industries ranging from healthcare to aerospace. Before joining Eli Lilly, Vipin was the Senior Vice President of Analytics at Humana, where he was responsible for the corporate organization that developed and applied data science and analytics solutions to advance Humana’s strategy, operations, quality and clinical outcomes. Prior to Humana, he was with Cigna Healthcare, United Technologies Corporation and Honeywell. Vipin is a thought leader and frequent speaker on the transformational power of advanced data analytics for a broad range of strategic topics in healthcare. For his contributions in the space of data and analytics, Vipin was the recipient of the Inaugural Informatica Global Chief Data Officer Award and the Indiana University Kelly School of Business Analytics Leadership Award and was also recognized as a 2018 Top 100 Innovator in Data and Analytics. Vipin has also served on the organizing/advisory committees of many national and international analytics conferences, is the founding chair of the Indianapolis Chief Data Officer (CDO) Forum and is a member of the Advisory Board for Magellan Health. His most recent media mentions includes those in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Scientific American, Nature and Forbes. Vipin obtained his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University and B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, both in engineering, and has an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business.