Modernizing Data for Operational Efficiency

Greg Carl started at Pure in 2024 as a Principal Technologist covering the Federal space, his most exciting stretch of his 15 year IT journey to date. With a background in Infrastructure, Programming and Network Security, Greg started his IT career as a contractor in Hampton Roads, VA for nearly every branch of the Department of Defense back in 2007.Over the next 10 years, the transition to Enterprise IT in the public and private sector started with a series of experiences in post and pre-sales in EMC Federal, as the Data Center Lead in the VAR space, and most recently as s Field CTO at Dell Technologies where he helped in the global effort of solutioning, execution, design and enablement on strategic opportunities as well as being a Global Lead for software defined storage in public cloud. Greg lives in Virginia with his wife Michelle, their son, as well as two elder dogs. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling with his wife, reading, the occasional game and most recently dipping a toe into blacksmithing.

A catalyst for industry-defining innovation, Pritha Mehra oversees one of the world’s largest technology infrastructures. With breadth and depth of expertise across a range of verticals from marketing to technology, she has been tapped to steward critical change in every role of her career. Today she serves as the Chief Information Officer of USPS, re-envisioning and transforming the enterprise for greater performance and innovation at scale.

Pritha is a thought leader on digital transformations and is focused on modernizing mission-critical ecosystems, platforms and networks to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive market environment. She led the launch of the USPS API Platform, which connects customers to the latest shipping solutions as USPS optimizes its unmatched delivery network; ushered the deployment of a high-end logistics ecosystem; and directed the creation of the digital infrastructure to receive and fulfill orders for 885 million COVID tests to 90 million households. In just 3 weeks, her team set up the 2-click website and backend systems that accepted 44 million orders on the first day.

Pritha has received numerous recognitions including the Women in Logistics and Delivery Services Award for Excellence, and FedScoop’s Top Boss in IT. Under her leadership, the USPS CIO received the 2023 Current Data Streaming Award for Innovation and 2022 Service to the Citizen Award for its COVID-19 distribution system. A thought leader on digital transformation Pritha serves on the Geoge Mason College of Engineering and Computing Advisory Board and is a featured speaker at many notable venues on modernization, AI and innovation.

Andrea Ramirez, M.D., M.S., is Chief Data Officer of the All of Us Research Program. In this role, she is centralizing data governance and analytics processes within the program. Andrea previously served as senior advisor to the Chief Executive Officer at All of Us.

Before joining the National Institutes of Health, Andrea was a physician scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where she studied the genomics of metabolic disorders and precision diabetes care. While there, she also led the data science team at the All of Us Data and Research Center. Dr. Ramirez received her undergraduate education from North Carolina State University, medical education from Duke University, internal medicine and clinical pharmacology training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She also completed training at NIH in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Her work has been funded in the past by the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation, and through several NIH awards. Dr. Ramirez maintains her clinical practice in pharmacogenomics, atypical diabetes, and general endocrinology.