Meg Columbia-Walsh
Meg Columbia-Walsh
Meg Columbia-Walsh is an accomplished woman in the tech industry with over 20 years of experience in healthcare, digital, and consumer packaged goods (CPG). She is a successful tech entrepreneur and CEO, having founded and run several businesses like HealthTech Digital, CBSHealthWatch, Oncology.com, and Inverse Mobile, which were eventually sold to big corporations like CBS Corp., Interpublic Group (IPG), and Ernst & Young. Columbia-Walsh is also the co-founder and CEO of Wylei Inc., a company that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Aside from being a successful entrepreneur, Columbia-Walsh is also an accomplished educator and coach with teaching and coaching experience in schools like Steven's Institute of Technology and Columbia University, and as head coach for Nutley Travel Boys Basketball. She is also a licensed real estate agent in New Jersey.
Columbia-Walsh's wealth of experience has made her a trusted advisor in marketing automation, personalization at scale, AI, digital transformation, social, mobile, pharma business process, consumer marketing, and consulting. She has also received numerous awards, including the 2018 Women in IT Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, the 2017 NJ Biz Top 50 Women in Business, and the 2016 MM&M Top 40 Healthcare Transformer, among others.
Her current role is Global Market Leader Healthcare Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she provides strategic direction and leadership in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving market. Before joining AWS, Columbia-Walsh held several high-level positions in global companies, including Executive Partner at IBM, President at Omnicom divisions, Agency Republic, Weapon 7, Code Worldwide, and Partner and Global Lead, Digital Transformation, Life Sciences at EY, among others.