Christine Ashton

Chief Information Officer at SUSE

As SUSE's Chief Information Officer, Christine is responsible for overseeing the global IT function. Before her current post, she served as CIO in Residence at SAP and Senior Vice President of Technology at Thomson Reuters Corp. Prior to these two positions, Christine had held a variety of data-driven roles across several major companies such as BP, BG Group (now part of RDS), Transport for London (TfL), United Utilities and Associated Octel.

Christine is an esteemed Non-Executive Director of the Royal Bank of Scotland International, a DIGIT Lab Advisory Board Member, and one of the British Computer Society's (BCS) highly respected Fellowes Advisory Task Group (FTAG).

She earned a Master's degree in Computing and Electronics, earning her the esteemed Fellowship of the BCS. She also served two terms on their strategic panel to further its mission of Making IT beneficial for society at large.