Eileen Smith is Senior VP, Data & Analytics at Cboe Global Markets. She has worked in various areas at Cboe, including Research & Product Development and Technology Planning. While in the Research department, she worked on the development and creation of new options products and indices. After moving into Technology, Eileen was the Tech lead working with business users and engineers on development of Cboe’s Hybrid Trading system and is a named inventor on 16 patents related to Hybrid trading. In her position as SVP, Data & Analytics, Eileen leads a team of 21 Data, AI and Quantitative Analysts and Engineers that are responsible for the tools and infrastructure surrounding Cboe’s self-service cloud-based data and analytics environment, business- and corporate-facing data and analysis and Cboe’s AI Center of Excellence.

Eileen received her B.A. in Economics and Management from Albion College and served on the college’s Alumni Board of Directors for 8 years. At Cboe, she served as the Chair of the Index Advisory Oversight Board and Vice Chair of the Derivatives Committee for Cboe Global Indices. Eileen is also a founding board member of the Cboe Women’s Initiative and was president of Cboe’s Senior Management Group. In September of 2023, Eileen was named a Notable Woman in STEM by Crain’s Chicago Business.