Ian Smith

Ian leads Optibrium’s Software Engineering, DevOps, and Quality Assurance teams, driving the scale-up of the company’s infrastructure and managing the expanding portfolio of products and development projects. He previously served as Head of Technology and Delivery for an insurance technology start-up, developing innovative data, analytics, and digital application-focused strategies through cloud platform delivery. Prior to this, Ian worked at Merck, Sharp, and Dohme (MSD) and during his tenure as Director of R&D Analytics, he led a team to define, develop and execute a strategy to build Merck’s next-generation machine learning and AI-driven analytics platform and data science.