Charla Griffy-Brown is an accomplished multi-disciplined leader with 20 years of dedicated experience working with executives, boards and organizations to strategically leverage new opportunities in digital innovation, analytics and technology development to achieve their strategic objectives. A seasoned board member, she has global experience working with executives, speaks Japanese and has extensive experience in the Asia-Pacific region with additional experience in Europe. She has helped executives and boards in privately and publicly traded firms leverage analytics, build cyber risk programs, and deploy technology to achieve greater efficiencies. Charla Griffy-Brown is currently Associate Dean of Executive and Part-Time Programs as well as Professor of Information Systems at the Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business where she has held many leadership roles. She has experience leading digital transformation to achieve strategic objectives and has worked with executives to achieve top and bottom-line growth leveraging digital innovation. She has a strong track record helping executives implement new initiatives in social media analytics, service design, cloud/IoT based enterprise systems and business intelligence/analytics.Dr. Griffy-Brown graduated from Harvard University, is a former Fulbright Scholar, and holds a Ph.D. in Technology Management from Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. She has worked for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center and served as a consultant for the United Nation’s Global Environmental Facility and the European Commission. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Technology in Society, an International journal published by Elsevier. As an international speaker, she has been recognized globally at conferences and by the International Association for the Management of Technology. She received Special Congressional Recognition by Representative Mimi Walters for her work educating Small and Medium-Sized businesses in cyber risk.