It was a fitting pivot after his tenure as CDO of the museum, who brought the Met into the social media era. Sreenivasan, a former journalist and Columbia University professor, introduced features such as Facebook Live and mobile apps to the museum experience and re-engineered how museums engaged with the public online. Working for the city, he wants to make online access into another utility for city residents and increase access to municipal data online.

Dickens is widely held by his peers as an innovator in combining content and technology to move radio to the digital age in the European and Asia Pacific regions. A radio veteran of three decades, Dickens came early to digital media, when he joined Capital Interactive in the U.K. He later became an advisor to the founders of Shazam and a founding director of UK Radioplayer Limited, a streaming joint venture between the BBC and UK commercial radio stations.

Dickens is praised by his colleagues for both supporting and challenging them to aim higher and has a number of outside board and director positions with technology and media companies. In 2016 he was named chairman of Freeview, a streaming platform for Australian broadcasters and a board member of Newzulu, a mobile tech company where Seven West acquired a stake. As the broadcaster continues its transformation, Dickens is expected to continue preaching the gospel of digital disruption.

A product of Silicon Valley who had tenures at LinkedIn, Skype, PayPal and eBay; Patil joined the White House in 2015, where he launched a multitude of efforts to use data in government, including the Police Data Initiative to use data analysis to reduce violence and improve policing; and the Precision Medicine Initiative to build a database of genetic information to advance personalized cures. He was awarded the Department of Defense’s highest civilian honor, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for his efforts in national security.

Patil’s peers credit him for his leadership and ability to bring teams together, as well as his problem-solving and analytical skills. In his post-government life, he is currently seeking his next challenge, but he remains an advocate of public service and of spending time in the public sector. As he told an interviewer recently: “Palo Alto will still be here.”

Before becoming CDO, Brotman led the development and expansion of core digital offerings in-store, such as WiFi, the Starbucks website and the Starbucks Digital Network. In September, as the company shuffled management when founder Howard Shultz took on a new role, Brotman was promoted from the CDO title to his current spot and placed in charge of expanding the integration of digital technology into stores.

Promoting MasterCard’s vision of a world without cash, Donnelly’s team has built a real-time marketing practice using its own data and technology to test and learn, producing award-winning content for mobile and other digital channels.

Donnelly also lends his time to several industry associations including chairing the ANA’s Digital, Social and Mobile Committee and the Mobile Marketing Association’s North American Board of Directors.

Running business six times the size of AOL and armed with IBM’s Watson technology gives Lord a powerful platform. He’s already credited for expanding access to Watson for developers and transforming IBM into a more agile, digitally-focused and modern company.

Besides running a $6-billion business unit within his parent company providing software and services, Ruh is also responsible for global IT for the parent and creating GE’s Digital Thread, a next-gen system for design, manufacturing and support functions.

Ruh joined GE in 2011 from Cisco, and during his tenure, led efforts to build the first industrial cloud-based platform, and helped bring business leaders, academics and government officials together into the first Industrial Internet Consortium to set out standards and best practices.

Fashion was a detour for Rogers, who cut his teeth managing the website of the Beastie Boys, but he is now forcing other fashion brands to up the ante. Last summer, he launched LVMH Luxury Labs, a startup incubator, and partnered with Viva Technology, a tech conference, to showcase new luxury tech applications.

When leaving Harvard, she did not completely leave the non-profit sector, or the digital realm. ITHAKA, a non-profit applying digital technology to preserve and share knowledge, is a good fit for Hewitt, who as a high-profile woman in technology, often speaks and writes on the subject, and serves on the boards of MITX and Junior Achievement USA, as well as advising many emerging technology groups.

Philalithes has helped (RED) leverage brands online to raise millions for the charity by turning Snapchat filters, FourSquare check-ins and apps and music downloads to cash to for research and disease prevention efforts. And on the for-profit sector, she remains an investor and advisor to many startups such as Student.com while also working with organizations helping women in creative and technology fields, such as WIE, School of Doodle and others.