H. DAVID ABBOTT JR.
Vice President of Technology Operations
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES WINNER
As the Vice President of Technology Operations at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, David Abbott is a rising star and invaluable liaison between the IT department and hospital leadership. In starting his career at Accenture, he quickly progressed to a Senior Leadership role where he implemented global programs to optimize technology platforms, business capabilities and technical architecture components to provide cost containment, process efficiency, and customer satisfaction. He continued his work as a Director for Mattel, working on web technologies, and spearheading a global team of architects, engineers, developers, and system analysts to support all consumer facing digital properties and enterprise applications. It is through this early work in his career that molded his customer centric IT focus, of which has catapulted his success at CHLA.
In his current role, Abbott provides leadership to a cross-functional team delivering enterprise functions for program and project management, financial management, and contract administration, vendor management, governance, mobile app development, eLearning and organizational change management.
