Professional Bio

Sean Bruich (pronounced “brew-ICK”) is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Amgen, a leading biotechnology company. He brings to the role a career spent leading global data science, insights, and AI organizations through moments of major technology and industry transformation.

At Amgen, Sean focuses on bringing modern technology leadership to the discovery, development, and delivery of innovative medicines to patients. He leads the company’s enterprise technology agenda across AI/ML strategy and engineering, data strategy and engineering, digital product management, software engineering, and user experience design. His work brings together deep scientific ambition with practical technology execution, using AI, data, and software to accelerate discovery, strengthen operations, and help Amgen bring medicines to patients with greater speed and impact.

Before Amgen, Sean helped shape how some of the world’s most influential technology companies use data to understand people, improve products, and drive growth. He spent over a decade at Nike, where he led global insights, analytics, data science, and AI/ML organizations spanning research, machine learning systems, marketing and measurement science, retail and digital analytics, supply chain optimization, inventory forecasting, and consumer and product research. His teams developed and deployed machine-learning algorithms at scale across the Nike app ecosystem, powering personalized digital experiences and advancing Nike’s capabilities in marketing effectiveness, retail analytics, forecasting, and enterprise decision-making.

Earlier in his career, Sean launched and led measurement science and data partnerships at Facebook (now Meta), where he helped build some of the core measurement systems and industry methods behind modern digital advertising. At Google, he led global customer research and analytics and helped develop early large-scale data science capabilities for audience insights and advertising effectiveness.

Sean holds numerous patents in data science, marketing measurement, and consumer privacy, and is a frequent guest lecturer on artificial intelligence, data science, digital transformation, and marketing science at leading universities and business schools. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the Advertising Research Foundation and as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Marketing Science Institute.

Sean studied Psychology (Neuroscience) and Biological Sciences at Stanford University, where his research used emerging brain imaging technologies including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).