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Gregory R. Simpson

Former CTO of GE & Former CTO of Synchrony Financial

Greg Simpson is an experienced technologist, having been CTO at numerous GE businesses, and GE overall. As CTO of Synchrony, Greg first launched the foundational infrastructure to support its IPO and then drove a transformation built on a strategic technology stack that was built on the cloud, a new data lake, application APIs, and AI, enabling faster solution delivery for Synchrony customers. He also was instrumental in its transformation to a work-from-home culture during the pandemic, Greg was named a Premier 100 Technology Leader by Computerworld in 2016. Greg recently published his first a techno-thriller novel called The Quantum Contingent. His follow-up novel, Quantum Time, is coming out later this year.


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