Get To Know Sidney’s Journey
Sidney Madison Prescott is the former Global Head of Intelligent Automation at Spotify. During her time at Spotify, Sidney launched the company’s first automation program within the Financial Engineering organization. Sidney built an award wining engineering practice focused on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Optical Character Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Process Mining, and Chatbots with hundreds of engineers reporting to her from around the world, including Stockholm, Asia, and the United States.
Sidney is based out of New York City.
Prior to Spotify, Sidney held a senior leadership position at ETRADE as the Head of the Automation Center of Excellence as a part of the firm’s Software Engineering organization. Sidney also served as Vice President of Intelligent Process Automation (Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) at BNY Mellon, and partnered with internal business units to strategize ways to transform business processes through robotic automation.
As a result of automated implementations, employees are freed up from general swivel chair activities to handle more value add tasks. After spending the past few years of her career in the cognitive automation space, Sidney knows what drives successful global robotics implementations and has excelled at delivering projects resulting in a seven-figure return on investment stats for numerous Fortune 250 companies across the globe.
“I think what we are seeing now is less of a desire to say that humans step away from a particular process and the machine takes over, and more of a, I’ll say, almost a dance — a collaborative dance, between the machine and the human.”
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Exploring Sidney’s Background
Sidney has filled many prominent leadership positions in support of women in technology, with an emphasis on driving mentorship programs for young professionals. This includes a stint with the American Association of University Women as a campus chapter President.
During her time at First Data, Sidney also held several enterprise-level leadership positions as a member of the YoPro (Young Professionals) employee resource group. Sidney was recently nominated by Intercon Global as a “Top 50 Global Tech Visionaries Award” recipient.
In addition, Georgia State University’s Department of Philosophy recently nominated Sidney for the university’s prestigious “40 Under 40” award.
In addition to her extensive work in the technology sector, Sidney is also a published author with an Amazon bestseller to her credit, as well as an Honors Thesis, an award-winning philosophical essay published by ScholarWorks & Misericordia University’s Journal of Living Philosophy, and an article on Anti-Racisim in STEM published by PLOS journal.
As a result of her academic excellence, Sidney was awarded an official state resolution by the State of Georgia’s House of Representatives in praise of her dedication to exemplary academic scholarship.
Sidney holds a BA in Philosophy (Pre-Law) along with Honors, Advanced Honors & Research Honors from Georgia State University, as well as a Master of Business Administration from Brenau University’s inaugural Executive Women’s MBA program, the first program of its kind in the United States.
“If you are truly putting yourself out there and have a core vision of what you want to achieve, your impact on the world will always shine through.”
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“ I fundamentally believe that that next frontier is a frontier where humans almost seamlessly interact with the different tools in their environment in a way to better facilitate faster outcomes.”
Sidney is a recipient of a Women in Technology scholarship based on both peer recommendations and industry accolades. In addition, Sidney is an MBAChic Fellow, after accepting another scholarship to attend Brenau University.
Sidney is currently attending Cornell Law School, as a member of the Master of Legal Studies cohort. Sidney’s graduation with her Master of Science from Cornell Law School will occur in 2026.
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“I think this is the future of what we are going to see, not only as technologists but really as a society in terms of incorporating machines that are capable of, I’ll say, a version of cognitive functionality, with that intuitive cognitive nature that humans have. The merging of those two? I think that is an extremely propelling value proposition, specifically in relation to the ways that we can continue to evolve technology.”