Making data matter at Mathematica [Video]

CIO Akira Bell is facilitating more equitable societal outcomes by delivering critical data and insights to the federal agencies the research and analytics consultancy serves.

Credit: Akira Bell / Mathematica

Mathematica’s Akira Bell is a CIO with a mission.

One of three finalists for the prestigious 2024 MIT CIO Leadership Award, Bell led the development of a proprietary data and analytics platform on AWS that enables the company to serve critical data to Medicare and other state and federal agencies as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Formerly known as Mathematica Policy Research, the Princeton, N.J.-based research firm is proud of its mission to deliver accurate data to ensure goods and services are distributed with equity and precision in a socially just manner. It is one of the few midsize companies with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization, the government’s highest security certification for cloud operators and required for work with federal agencies.

“Akira exemplifies the traits we want to …