Andrew Macey

Andrew Macey serves as the Company’s Lead Strategy Advisor with responsibility for helping guide Samesurf's strategy within the verticals it operates. He currently serves as Vice President of Digital Strategy & Innovation at CVS Health. Prior to this role, Andy served as Group Vice President of Digital at Luxottica and Vice President of Strategy at Sapient in a role he held for over a decade. In his role at Sapient, he worked with such industry leaders as Lenscrafters, Sunglass Hut, Dunkin' Brands, Staples, Royal Ahold, PetSmart, Tesco, P&G, Coca-Cola, Dell, Carrier, GE, Forrester Research, Gartner and The Royal Mail.

Andy's experience includes business change through new growth initiatives with a focus on digital strategy and the convergence of channels across e-commerce, mobile, social and stores. He also focuses on changes in publishing and content-driven businesses, customer experience design, multichannel investment strategy and operational and organizational effectiveness to evolve multichannel capabilities. He began his career at Bain, where he led work in go-to-market, operations and M&A strategy. Andy also worked with two software companies in senior operating roles: first as VP Sales & Services at OAT Systems (now part of Checkpoint) and as VP & MD Europe for Formation Systems (now part of Infor). He was also SVP of Operations for the consumer products company AWC and COO of HLB, a product development firm turnaround discussed in a Harvard Business School case.

Andy is also a mentor, judge or board member with several organizations involved in start-ups, business competitions and new thinking around digital convergence; these include competitions at Harvard Business School, the MIT Sloan School, MITX and Mass Challenge. He is also a board member of the start-up investment group CommonAngels and serves on an advisory board for the MIT Enterprise Forum, a community of ~100,000 entrepreneurs in 28 international chapters.

Andy has an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.