Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week: Harrison Lung, e&

Who: Harrison Lung is the Group Chief Strategy Officer at e&. Founded in Abu Dhabi over 48 years ago, e& has evolved from a telecom company into a global technology group with a footprint that now spans 38 countries. Prior to joining e&, Lung worked as a partner at Siris Capital, a private equity firm and as a partner at McKinsey and Company as a leader in their technology, telecom and digital practices in North America and Asia. He has also worked at Accenture’s mobile technology group and was a technical architect at Bell Mobility and Sprint Canada (now Rogers Communications)

Topic: e&’s adoption of AI and where it is placing its technology bets.

Quote: “AI is here to stay. Compared to the steam engine, the Internet or mobile, the rate of change is much faster. The winners will be those at the forefront of adopting this technology responsibly.”

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.