# CEO & Founder

## Jamila Gordon

Jamila is a global technology executive with over 20 years’ experience, including as Qantas Airway’s Chief Information Officer and implementing some of IBM’s largest engagements around the world. She was included on the **[BBC’s ‘100 Women’ list for 2021](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59514598),** highlighting women who are leading the way to ‘reinvent our society, our culture and our world’.

After starting life in a tiny village in the backblocks of Somalia, she found herself as a displaced person in Kenya, on her own and practically homeless due to the Somali civil war. Thanks to the kindness of a backpacker, she came to her new home Australia, where she learned English, got into university and fell in love with software engineering.

Her corporate career included Deloitte and IBM Europe, including running some of IBM’s largest global (US$1B+) megadeals for Solectron Manufacturing, AXA Insurance and ABN AMRO Bank, based out of Nice, Paris and Amsterdam. Qantas Airways brought her back to Australia as the Group Chief Information Officer, and she then went on to be Group CIO of CIMIC, the largest construction and contract mining company in the Southern Hemisphere, before she eventually Founded Lumachain.

**Awards**

- 2021 Women in AI Awards Innovator of the Year, ANZ.
- 2020 New South Wales Tech Entrepreneur of the Year.
- 2018 Microsoft’s Global Awardee in the International Women’s Entrepreneurship Challenge.

In addition to Lumachain, Jamila sat on the Advisory Board of Questacon, Australia’s National Science Centre. She resigned in September 2022, due to her relocating to the US.

### How AI can help shatter barriers to equality

**Jamila Gordon**  
***How AI can help shatter barriers to equality***

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### [TEDWomen 2020 Jamila Gordon on How AI can help shatter barriers to equality](/content/tedwomen-2020-jamila-gordon-on-how-ai-can-help-shatter-barriers-to-equality/index.html)

### [Jamila Gordon wins Innovator of the Year at the Women in AI Awards 2021 Australia – New Zealand](/content/jamila-gordon-wins-women-in-ai-awards-2021-australia-new-zealand-for-ai-in-manufacturing/index.html)

### [Jamila Gordon receives 2020 NSW Pearcey Award for the Tech Entrepreneur of the Year](/content/jamila-gordon-receives-2020-nsw-pearcey-award-for-the-tech-entrepreneur-of-the-year/index.html)

### [Lumachain Partners with Sustainable Beef to Deliver 24/7 AI-based Animal Welfare Monitoring with 100% coverage](/content/lumachain-partners-with-sustainable-beef/index.html)

### [Colorado State University Study Validates Use of Computer Vision AI for Animal Welfare Monitoring](/content/colorado-state-university-study-validates-use-of-computer-vision-ai-for-animal-welfare-monitoring/index.html)

### [Chipotle Invests in Lumachain](/content/chipotle-invests-in-lumachain/index.html)

### [Lumachain named a Rising Star in Forbes Cloud 100](/content/lumachain-a-rising-star-in-forbes-cloud-100/index.html)

### [Series A Fundraise Success](/content/series-a-fundraise-success/index.html)

### [Jamila Gordon named as one of the BBC’s ‘100 Women’ for 2021](/content/jamila-gordon-has-just-been-named-as-one-of-the-bbcs-100-women-for-2021/index.html)