Paul Roehrig

Paul Roehrig is Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of Ascendion, a software engineering and digital transformation company. With a hybrid workforce of about 6,000 Ascenders, and 20 offices across the US, India, and Mexico, Ascendion provides product and platform engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent transformation solutions to hundreds of Global 2000 clients. He is also the Group CSMO for Collabera Holdings.

He is the former Senior Vice President, Executive Leadership Team Member, and Global Head of Strategy and Growth for Cognizant Digital Business & Technology. (Cognizant is a business and technology company comprised of nearly 300,000 associates.

He is a co-author of multiple award-winning and best-selling books: Monster: A Tough Love Letter On Taming The Machines That Rule Our Jobs, Lives, and Future (2021), What To Do When Machines Do Everything (2017), and Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business (2014).

Paul is a founder and former Global Managing Director of the Center for The Future of Work. He has held various other marketing and strategy roles at Cognizant.

Paul was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. In addition, he held operational positions in designing and implementing global technology services programs for Hewlett-Packard.

Paul is a sought after presenter at a wide range of public, academic, and industry events such as the World Economic Forum, Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, The Churchill Club, the Atlantic Festival, Politico, and many more across the globe. He has regularly been featured in publications such as Forbes, Business Week, The Economic Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Fortune India, Clarin, The Times of India, Computerworld, and others.

Paul holds a PhD from Syracuse University and was formerly a professional musician. He lives in the Washington, DC, area with his family.