Jacky Wright

Jacky Wright is a British technology executive, Chief Digital Officer and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft US.

Life

Jacky Wright was born in London, but has spent much of her career in the United States. She served as corporate vice president for core platform engineering at Microsoft before joining HM Revenue & Customs on a two-year "loan arrangement" in 2017. She was Chief Digital and Information Officer at HMRC until October 2019, when she returned to Microsoft.[1]

Wright was listed at number 6 in the Powerlist 2018 rankings of the most influential black people in the UK,[2] and at number 4 in the Powerlist 2019 rankings and the Powerlist 2020 rankings.[3][4]

gollark: Alternatively, learn Haskell also because Rust is designed along *slightly* FP lines.
gollark: Yes, all is rust.
gollark: By default.
gollark: Also, isn't `Vec` in scope anyway?
gollark: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html and also pattern matching mostly.

References
  1. HM Revenue & Customs, Chief Digital and Information Officer Jacky Wright to leave HMRC, 25 September 2019, gov.uk.
  2. "UK's most influential black person named". BBC News. 24 October 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  3. "Who are the influential Black Britons honoured in Powerlist 2019?". Melan Magazine. 27 October 2018.
  4. Stormzy and Meghan Markle among most influential UK black people list, BBC News, 25 October 2019. Accessed 21 July 2020.
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