Deanna Shannon

Vice President Enterprise Architecture and Incubation CAE

Deanna is Vice President Enterprise Architecture & Incubation at CAE where she is responsible for designing CAE’s enterprise architecture and for defining the vision and strategic direction for incubation initiatives.

In her 27 years of technology experience, she has been able to engage in all levels of strategy and technology. Before joining CAE, she was Vice President of Enterprise Architecture at Schneider Electric where she was responsible for the AI@SE AI platform program and for executing key Proof of Value (POV) programs. She created architectural practices that matured and evolved into direct margin drivers and ensured scalability and success globally without compromising security and driving a world class risk profile.

Prior to Schneider Electric, she was the Senior Staff Enterprise Architect & Director of Digital Workplace for Wabtec Corporation, driving the technology strategy and execution of a key merger between Wabtec and GE Transportation. She has also worked for Panduit, Kellogg and Navistar, where she was respectively Enterprise Architecture Director, Principal Enterprise Architect, and Strategy & Planning and Information Technology Business Relationship Director. She is passionate about helping companies extract success through architecture.

As an enterprise architect she has been able to drive over $850M in savings and deliver over $400M of revenue to the bottom line through new product creation. She has leveraged Artificial Intelligence longer than most have known it existed. She loves what she does, and wants to share her insight to help other architects be successful. Deanna holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois and an Artificial Intelligence Certification from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).