During his three years as CIO of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, David Smoley has been overseeing a massive insourcing effort.
When he joined the organization, AstraZeneca was outsourcing nearly 70% of the IT organization to about ten third-party providers.
He brought much of IT in-house at locations around the globe, including Chennai in India and Guadalajara, Mexico as well as creating technology labs in Silicon Valley, Cambridge UK, and Shanghai.