Helena Yin Koeppl

Helena became an AWS Executive in Residence in January 2024. She brings more than 26 years of firsthand experience building and running global data, AI, and innovation organizations across Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services, Consumer Goods, and Media — and knows what it actually takes to move from AI ambition to AI value at enterprise scale. What sets her apart is the ability to move fluently among boardroom strategy, technical depth and human capital  — and a track record across four global top companies to back it up. 

Prior to AWS, Helena served as SVP, Head of Thomson Reuters Labs worldwide. In this role, she built one of the first enterprise AI organizations to integrate AI frontier research, product innovation, and end-to-end implementation. She was among the earliest enterprise leaders to define and execute a Generative AI strategy, launching a company-wide LLM experimentation platform by partnering with AWS in under six weeks and shipping GenAI into flagship products across Legal, Financial, News, and Media domains by end of 2023. The AI operating model she built solved a problem most large organizations still struggle: closing the gap between AI ambition and AI in production.

At Bayer Pharmaceuticals, as Global Head of Data Science & Advanced Analytics, she architected the cloud-first data strategy and tech foundation that made enterprise AI possible at scale — processing over 2 billion data points daily across 25 global markets securely, including sensitive Electronic Medical Records. She focused on AI innovation with real clinical impact: accelerating drug development, disease risk and progression prediction, radiology diagnostics support, and personalized digital patient care.

Prior to her role at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Helena successfully designed and implemented data and analytic transformations for over 80 global markets in both Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble.

Human-centred AI, for Helena, is not just a design principle. It is a complete operating model — one that starts with people: understanding what customers and employees truly need, where friction slows them down, and where technology can genuinely improve their experience. From there, it scales outward — into organization design, reimagined business processes, and first-principles thinking about how humans and AI agents work together. That is how lasting innovation happens. And it is how Helena has built and led organizations that don't just adopt AI, but are ready to keep evolving with it. It is the conviction at the heart of her work.

During her leisure time, Helena is most passionate about traveling. Originally from Singapore, she resided in the United Kingdom and Belgium before ultimately settling in Switzerland with her family.