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Joanna Peller, UK health lead, Palantir Technologies
What has been your path to power?
After growing up in Boston Massachusetts, I moved to the UK to study Mathematics at UCL. I began my career as a software engineer in commodities at Goldman Sachs. I joined Palantir as a forward deployed strategist in 2016, where I joined a team focused on manufacturing and supply chain solutions. In March 2020, I started work on helping the NHS deploy the Foundry platform to form a single source of truth for the Covid-19 response and power operational decisions across the organisation. I now lead our health work in the UK, which spans everything from vaccine supply chain optimisation to elective recovery and beyond.
What impact has the pandemic had on demand from your clients?
Over the last two years, we’ve witnessed the toughest health crisis of modern times. The Covid-19 pandemic has not only changed the very nature of our work, it has changed the significance of our outcomes as well. While the heart of our health work has remained centred on improving patient lives, the pandemic has given this mission new meaning.
In the UK, this meant that we needed to support the NHS in solving its largest peacetime logistical challenge as quickly as humanly possible. Local and national leadership needed the data infrastructure that would allow them to see the true picture of infection spread and critical care capacity. As I look towards the future of the healthcare sector, I have no doubt that data-driven decision making will become the foundation for improving patient outcomes.
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