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TOP 50
DATA AND ANALYTICS
PROFESSIONALS –
USA AND CANADA
coriniumintelligence.comINTRODUCTION
Corinium Global Intelligence is proud to unveil
their first compilation of the 50 leaders in data
and analytics across the USA and Canada, which
aims to showcase the movers and shakers in
the industry who are driving innovation and
commerciality for data and analytics in these
two countries.
This prestigious list of those within the industry
celebrates data and analytics leadership, excellence
and showcases some of the insightful and exciting
ways in which data and analytics is being been used
by these professionals in the USA and Canada.
All aspects of data and analytics have been
recognised from the leaders who make the most
of up to the minute technology, to the end-users
who deploy it and the consultants who plan and
implement ground breaking projects that deliver
real results.
Our Top 50 Data and Analytics Professionals
appear in no particular order and are not ranked
in order of achievement.
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Inderpal Bhandari
Global Chief Data Officer, IBM
www.ibm.com @valuefromdata
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nderpal Bhandari recently rejoined IBM as Global the company’s data and its readiness to respond
Chief Data Officer. In this newly created role, he to emerging market trends. Prior to that, he
will leverage his extensive experience to lead the founded Virtual Gold, growing the company into
development of IBM’s data strategy. an international market leader for analytics in call
centers and professional sports.
Inderpal brings to IBM more than 20 years of
experience in leadership roles at such leading Inderpal is an expert in transforming data into
companies as Cambia Health Solutions and Express business value and improved customer experiences
Scripts/Medco Health Solutions. Prior to joining IBM, by delivering strategic, innovative capabilities
Inderpal served as Senior Vice President and Chief that use analytic insights to enable growth and
Data Officer of Cambia Health Solutions where he productivity. He has been featured as an industry
led the development of Cambia’s data strategy and expert by Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, US
drove the transformation of the company’s consumer News & World Report, CNN and FOX.
experience strategies.
Inderpal earned his Master of Science Degree
Prior to that, Inderpal served as Vice President in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the
of knowledge solutions and Chief Data Officer at University of Massachusetts and holds a PhD in
Express Scripts/Medco Health Solutions, where Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie
he was responsible for maximizing the utility of Mellon University.
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Dr Eugene (Gene)
Kolker, PhD
Vice President and Chief Data Officer (CDO)
of Global Technology Services (GTS), IBM
ibm.com @EugeneKolker
589 connections cdoanalytics.org
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r Eugene (Gene) Kolker PHD is the Vice Previously Eugene was the Founder & President
President and Chief Data Officer (CDO) of of BIATECH Informatics Innovation Centre, which
Global Technology Services (GTS), the largest was acquired by SCH. He has over 130 publications in
business unit of IBM. Eugene’s mission is to leverage 40 different journals and served as the Co-Founder
data and analytics as strategic business assets of GTS & Executive Editor of the journals “Big Data” and
and IBM for data-enabled, better-informed decision “OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology”. Also Dr.
making and execution. Kolker serves as Research Professor at New York
University School of Engineering, NYC; Adjunct
Eugene has 27 years of experience in multi- Professor at Northeastern University College of
disciplinary data analysis, advanced analytics Science, Boston; and Affiliate Professor at University
and informatics and 17 years of experience in of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
management, business and community development.
Prior to IBM, Eugene was CDO of Seattle Children’s In April 2015, Eugene was honoured by the HIMSS
Hospital (SCH). At SCH, he created and led the CDO members to be one of the top three “Innovators” in
Analytics Program, which focused on leveraging their HIT Awards, which recognize industry leaders
complex data through analytics and informatics to improving healthcare through technology. In May 2015,
improve safety, clinical and business outcomes, and he was named one of the “Top 16 data-driven geeks to
customer services, reduce cost and drive innovation. watch” by HIMSS. In June 2015, one of his papers on
In turn, these provide high quality care for integrative analysis of personal biomedical data won the
consumers with the most effective use of resources. first price in the Metabolites Best Papers Award.
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Anand Rao
CXO Trusted Advisor | Machine Learning
Adoption | Analytics Product Management
PwC
pwc.com 658 connections
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nand Rao is the global Artificial Intelligence expertise to generate unique insights into the theory
Lead with PwC. With nearly three decades and practice of ‘data science’.
of experience, Rao is responsible for a team
of practitioners who work with C-level executives, Prior to Rao’s strategic consulting career he has
advising them on a range of topics including global led and managed innovative artificial-intelligence
growth strategies, marketing, sales, distribution based approaches for air-combat modeling, air-
and digital strategies, behavioral economics traffic management, customer service decision
and customer experience, risk management support, and telecommunications network
and statistical and computational analytics. His management. He has also taught and supervised
experience spans primarily financial services, doctoral students at the University of Melbourne
insurance, telecommunications, and health care. and served as the Program Director of the Center for
Intelligent Decision Systems.
Rao has lived and worked at clients in Asia,
Australia, Europe and Americas. Rao is responsible Rao has co-edited four books, published over fifty
for research and commercial relationships with peer-reviewed papers in conferences and journals.
academic institutions and startups focused on new He frequently speaks at technology and business
and innovative big data and analytic techniques. With forums on analytics, AI, behavioral economics, and
his PhD and research career in Artificial Intelligence, innovation and has served on the Organizing and
and subsequent experience in management, he Program Committees of International Journals,
brings a unique combination of business domain Conferences, and Workshops. Currently a Board
experience, statistical, and computational analytics Member of RIIA.
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Atul Kapoor
Director, Insurance & Banking, Enterprise-
Wide Analytics and Modeling Strategy
Genworth Financial
genworth.com 573 connections
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tul Kapoor is the Director, Risk Analytics As part of his role at Genworth Financial,
Modelling Strategy, at Genworth Financial, Atul Kapoor is a keynote speaker at professional
Inc. Genworth Financial is a leading insurance association events on modelling and risk topics,
holding company committed to helping families including housing and credit. He presents to boards
achieve the dream of home ownership and address of corporate, non-profits and academic institutions
the financial challenges of aging through its on a regular basis. Atul’s main specialty is building
leadership positions in mortgage insurance and long- teams from the ground up and leading teams of
term care insurance. analysts with skills ranging from entry level to senior
analysts and managers.
Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, Genworth
traces its roots back to 1871. Our products and Some of Atul’s key skills include predictive
services are offered through financial intermediaries, analytics and modelling, the integration of analytics
advisors, independent distributors and sales into strategy, enterprise-wide solutions, leveraging
specialists. technology in analytics, model governance, risk
management, reinsurance and database marketing.
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Mark Lipman
Chief Operating Officer
AIG Canada
aig.com 863 connections
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ver the course of his career with AIG Based on a foundation of strong analytic skills,
Canada Mark has held a number of positions Mark has consistently demonstrated the ability to
including General Counsel, Chief of Staff and exercise sound judgment and business acumen. His
currently Chief Operating Officer. In each of those tenure with AIG has provided him with extensive
roles hew has been responsible for the successful experience and a broad range of skills including:
execution of a wide range of projects and business people management and development, client
strategies. A core aspect of his role has been to and broker engagement, financial and budgetary
champion innovation for AIG within Canada. planning, business operations (including the
development and implementation of target operating
Regardless of the task, his primary focus has models), systems, regulatory and compliance
always been on client satisfaction and making knowledge. Based on his broad skill set and
a material contribution to the success of AIG. knowledge of the Canadian Property & Casualty
Mark has a proven track record of leading high insurance industry Mark has the ability to plot and
performing teams, with an ability to motivate and execute successful business strategies.
draw the best performance out of direct reports
and colleagues alike. He is a strong believer in
transparency, consistent and open communication,
and empowering individuals to achieve beyond what
is required.
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Jose Murillo
Chief Analytics Officer
Banorte
banorte.com 648 connections
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ose Antonio Murillo Garza is an analytic leader Prior to Banorte, Dr. Murillo Garza was a top
with a distinguished track record of translating ranking official at Mexico’s Central Bank, an advisor
analytics into high profits. He established to the International Monetary Fund and taught
and leads the Analytics Business Unit at Banorte economics at Rice University, ITAM and El Colegio
–Mexico’s second largest financial group. His de Mexico. He holds a BA in economics from ITAM
team develops a deep understanding of Banorte’s (graduated with honors and received national
customers with the aim of finding opportunities prizes in economics from the National Chamber of
to increase profitability. He assures end to end Commerce and Tlacalel National Prize in Economics)
implementation of the projects which his team and a PhD in economics from Rice University.
undertakes.
During its first year of operations (2015) the value
created by the Analytics team was equivalent to 9
percent of Banorte’s total net profits. During the
second year of operations the Analytics contribution
increased to 20 percent of Banorte’s total net profits.
In 2016 he was awarded the Lafferty Global Award on
Credit Card Excellence for the impact of analytics on
Banorte’s productivity.
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Gina Papush
Senior Analytics Executive
QBE
group.qbe.com 742 connections
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ina Papush is recognized for proven and consulting industries. Her experience includes
leadership and expertise in analytic leading customer analytics, research, strategic
innovation and data-driven strategies that business and marketing planning for retail banking,
accelerate business growth in complex environments. credit cards, retail, health care, manufacturing,
During her 20+ year career, she successfully and entertainment industries. She developed and
built leading decision analytic and information implemented customer experience, segmentation,
management capabilities across diverse industries database marketing and risk management solutions
and business models, delivering significant business for PNC Bank, General Electric Credit Services,
results. Lowe’s, HBO, Roche Diagnostics, Whirlpool, and
many other companies. She began her career in the
As a Global Chief Analytics & Data Officer for field of environmental statistics.
QBE, Gina is spearheading the development of
leading decision support and business optimization Gina served as a member of Executive Board
capabilities for the firm globally. Prior to joining QBE, for Fulcrum Analytics. She holds a B.S. in Applied
Gina was Head of Mortgage Decision Management at Mathematics from Kharkov University in Ukraine, and
Citigroup’s Global Consumer Banking unit and held an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Maryland,
various leadership positions within financial services where she also completed her Ph.D. qualifications.
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Dr Eric Poon
Chief Health Information Officer
Duke University Health System
medicine.duke.edu 583 connections
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r Eric Poon currently serves as the Chief Poon has conducted several studies to delineate
Health Information Officer for Duke Medicine. the barriers to and facilitators of the wide-spread
He also practices primary care internal diffusion of computerized physician order entry and
medicine at the Durham Medical Center as part of has led many studies evaluating the safety, financial
Duke Primary Care. In his capacity as CHIO, he is and socio-technical impact of barcode technology in
responsible for the visioning and strategic planning of the hospital pharmacy and nursing units.
clinical and analytic information systems that impact
A selection of Dr Eric Poon’s numerous publications:
patient care, research and education. Dr Poon • Leung, AA, Denham, CR, Gandhi, TK, Bane, A, Churchill, WW,
works with the Duke Medicine leadership to ensure Bates, DW, and Poon, EG. “A safe practice standard for barcode
technology solutions are well aligned with their technology.” Journal of patient safety 11, no. 2 (June 2015): 89-99.
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overall organizational objectives. He oversees the
• Landman, A, Emani, S, Carlile, N, Rosenthal, DI, Semakov, S,
optimization of the Maestro Care (Epic) electronic Pallin, DJ, and Poon, EG. “A mobile app for securely capturing
health record, and partners with physicians, patients and transferring clinical images to the electronic health record:
description and preliminary usability study.” JMIR mHealth and
and operational leaders to effectively leverage uHealth 3, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): e1-.25565678
innovative IT in support of the Duke mission. Dr • Poon, EG. “Clinical decision support: a tool of the hospital trade.”
Poon also has a keen interest in IT innovation and Journal of hospital medicine 10, no. 1 (January 2015): 60-61.
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works with investigators across Duke to pursue new
• Landman, A, Emani, S, Carlile, N, Rosenthal, DI, Guelich, S,
and innovative ways to efficiently deliver high quality Semakov, S, Pallin, DJ, and Poon, EG. “A Mobile App for Securely
care to their patients. Capturing and Transferring Clinical Images to the Electronic
Health Record: Description and Preliminary Usability Study.” JMIR
mHealth and uHealth 3, no. 1 (2015): e1-e1.
Dr Poon’s research interests revolves around the
• Nanji, KC, Rothschild, JM, Boehne, JJ, Keohane, CA, Ash, JS, and
use of health information technology to improve the Poon, EG. “Unrealized potential and residual consequences of
quality of care and patient safety in both ambulatory electronic prescribing on pharmacy workflow in the outpatient
pharmacy.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics
and hospital settings. His work in the ambulatory Association : JAMIA 21, no. 3 (May 2014): 481-486. 24154836
setting has focused on the efficient delivery of • Landman, AB, Redden, L, Neri, P, Poole, S, Horsky, J, Raja, AS,
decision support to clinicians to prevent errors of Pozner, CN, Schiff, G, and Poon, EG. “Using a medical simulation
center as an electronic health record usability laboratory.” Journal
omission and commission during diagnostic test of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 21, no. 3
ordering and review of test results. He has also (May 2014): 558-563. 24249778
worked to use information technology, including • Dalal, AK, Roy, CL, Poon, EG, Williams, DH, Nolido, N, Yoon, C,
Budris, J, Gandhi, T, Bates, DW, and Schnipper, JL. “Impact of an
secure on-line patient portals, to improve the automated email notification system for results of tests pending
communication between clinicians and patients at discharge: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.” Journal of the
around health maintenance and the follow-up of American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 21, no. 3 (May
2014): 473-480. 24154834
abnormal test results. In the inpatient setting, Dr
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James Jeude
Vice President and Practice Leader
Cognizant
cognizant.com @jamesjeude
642 connections
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ames Jeude is Director of DWBI (data James works at the intersection of business
warehousing and business intelligence) and digital, helping clients join their channels of
Consulting and Enterprise Analytics for engagement and corporate operations with the
Cognizant Business Consulting. As a practice leader, meaningful advances in analytics, data science, and
he brings to clients extensive industry experience in Artificial Intelligence.
deploying information management solutions to drive
business strategies and operational performance. His An increasingly digitized world offers both a
experience includes text mining and analytics at a steady stream of useful information as well as
major search engine company; deploying syndicated a channel to provide automated insights and
data for risk management and market research at recommendations back to the point of decision.
AC Nielsen, IMS Health, and Dun & Bradstreet; and Cognizant’s Digital Business, Digital Operations,
analytical models for predictive analysis, risk analysis, and Digital Systems and Technologies provide the
and customer and prospect classification and advisory and domain services that propel the global
valuation. His specialty is the qualitative impact of economy.
data analytics in setting optimal business strategy.
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Brandon Crowley
Chief Data Officer
City of Cincinnati
cincinnati-oh.gov @becrowley1
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s Chief Data Officer (CDO) for the City of Application Development was highly sought after
Cincinnati, Brandon works at the nexus of and he introduced Desktop Support for the City
public policy, data analysis, and technology of Cincinnati’s Enterprise Technology Solutions
development and optimisation. He has been using department.
his technological knowledge and expertise to solve
complex city problems using data for more than 17 Brandon also led a strong technical team
years. to provide critical data support for the City of
Cincinnati’s website, application development and
In his role with the City of Cincinnati, Brandon desktop support. His pioneering work in data and
works closely with executive leadership to optimise data management meant he was responsible for the
the City’s IT infrastructure investments while goals, objectives, scopes, outputs, resources required,
facilitating innovation in digital government. budget, project structure, roles and responsibilities
for the eGov, Open Data and Application
His expertise in planning, directing and managing Development/Desktop Support projects
the Electronic Government (eGov) Project and
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Ursula Cottone
Chief Data Officer
Citizens Bank
citizensbank.com @happyurs
735 connections
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rsula Cottone is the Chief Data Officer at From 2003 to 2005 she was responsible for
Citizens Bank and leads the Enterprise Data many facets of the Client Experience. Her primary
and Information Management Office. In this focus included the design, development and
capacity she is driving the end-to-end processes for deployment of a single instance of Siebel 7 across
Citizens Bank’s strategic enterprise asset, data. multiple lines of business. Her responsibilities also
included the coordination of diverse project teams
Previously she was at KeyBank for more than 16 including business analysts and technical resources
plus years in various roles, and most recently she in a matrixed reporting structure. With her Six
was the first Chief Data Officer providing vision, Sigma Green Belt, she also led multiple projects
strategy and policy guidance for data acquisition, through process analysis, future state design, and
usage and management activities. From 2008 to 2012, implementation phases.
she oversaw and directed support related functions
of the Corporate Bank, including strategy, support
and project management for information technology,
marketing, communications, prospecting, and other
Corporate Bank-wide initiatives.
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Alfred Essa
Vice President, Analytics and R&D
McGraw Hill
alfredessa.com @malpaso
725 connections alfredessa.com
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lfred is Vice President, Analytics and R&D (Sep. enterprise infrastructure services, identity and
2013 – present) at McGraw-Hill Education access management, network security, academic
(MHE) where he leads the company-wide technologies, and web development.
learning science and data science research portfolio.
He is currently working on book on Enterprise In 2005 he co-founded (with Carl Blesius) the .LRN
Analytics for De Gruyter Press. Consortium, serving as the first Board Chair and
Executive Director. .LRN is an open source project
Previously he was Director of Analytics Research based on OpenACS, which in turn is based on the
& Strategy at Desire2Learn Inc, where he was pioneering ACS open source toolkit developed by
responsible for leading research and business MIT entrepreneur Philip Greenspun.
strategy for the analytics portfolio, including
products, solutions, acquisitions, and partnerships. Alfred was CIO at MIT’s Sloan School of
At Desire2Learn he led product development of the Management (1999-2005) with responsibility for
Student Success System, the acquisition of Degree strategic planning and delivering high-touch services
Compass, and the architecture of the joint analytics at one of the premier business schools in the world.
solution with IBM. At MIT he was the Principal Investigator for the
iLearn project, a research effort to design the next
He was Associate Vice Chancellor and Deputy generation learning system. He received an MIT
CIO (2006 – 2011) at Minnesota State Colleges Excellence Award in 2005 for Innovative Solutions
and Universities, the fifth-largest system of two- and MIT Sloan Community Appreciation Awards in
and four-year colleges and universities in the 2002 and 2005.
US. At MnSCU he led academic online strategy,
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Charles Thomas
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
General Motors
generalmotors.com 752 connections
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harles Thomas is a Global Enterprise Data and organizations, and driving a diversity and inclusion
Analytics leader who maximizes the impact agenda in technology, particularly in the Data
Data & Insights have on business results, Sciences. He is solely accountable for advancing
operational efficiency & effectiveness, and fact-based General Motors’ data science and analytics culture
cultural change. He is a leading Storytelling expert and monetising the companies vast data assets, in
with experience of building measurable analytics support of their corporate strategy which in turn
programs for major organizations. helps the business leverage data to optimize multi-
generational customer relationships, enhance safety,
He has expertise in leveraging data to drive maximize return on its marketing, digital, and sales
strategy across B2B and B2C segments, digital and investments, and inject insights to generate win-win
traditional routes to market, Worldwide regions, career opportunities with team members.
and multiple industry verticals and is currently
developing new capabilities in AI & Machine Learning Charles is a key enabler of GM’s Digital
to expedite the “Data to Value” lifecycle at scale. Transformation, and works with stakeholders across
the Business and Information Technology to ensure
Charles is a leader in his field and is committed insights permeate everything the company does.
to increasing the role of “Activist Analysts” in
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Fawad Butt
Chief Data Governance Officer
Kaiser Permanente
healthy.kaiserpermanente.org
642 connections @buttfawad
F
awad Butt has over 20 years of experience to deliver cutting edge clinical care to our members
working for financial services, technology, and and patients, while ensuring that data privacy and
healthcare organizations and currently serves security is managed across all our processes and
as the Chief Data Governance officer at Kaiser platforms.
Permanente, which is currently the largest managed
care consortium in the United States. Data powered business models create new
opportunities by relying on analytics and software
In his role he is responsible for creating an overall intelligence to unlock insights. These outcomes can
data management strategy for this $60B/year only be achieved by first implementing robust data
organization. His mission is to quality healthcare to management programs, and that is what Fawad has
its members at a reasonable price and to achieve done for companies in Financial Services, Technology
this the organization is embracing data as a strategic and Healthcare industries over the course of his
asset, and is investing in the development of robust career. He understands the intricacies of weaving
platforms and management practices to ensure technology, processes, org structures and policies, to
that the right data is available to the right people/ align business objectives with technology capabilities,
systems, at the right time. extracting tangible value from the organizational
data.
Fawsal has built a team at Kaiser Permanente
to build the most mature data foundation in the
healthcare space, and which will serve as the vehicle
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Vijay Venkatesan
Senior Vice President, Chief Data Officer
Providence St. Joseph Health
providence.org 751 connections
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s the Chief Data Officer for Providence St. served as vice president of analytics and business
Joseph Health (PSJH), Vijay Venkatesan intelligence for Sutter’s physician services.
is accountable for the creation of a next
generation data and analytics strategy that Before joining Sutter, he was VP of management
accelerates the use of data, analytics, mobile-ready information and analysis with Kaiser Permanente for
apps and machine learning to advance PSJH mission four years. While there, Vijay helped lead Kaiser’s data
and strategies. transformation. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente,
he held key roles at Health Care Service Corporation,
Prior to joining PH&S, Vijay served as vice a multi-state not-for-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield
president of enterprise data management for Sutter plan (BCBS).
Health. Under Vijay’s leadership, Sutter Health made
great strides advancing its capabilities around data, Vijay holds a bachelor of science degree in
reporting and analytics. He was instrumental in computer and information science from Cleveland
advancing several regional and system wide strategic State University and an MBA from the Ross School of
priorities in support of the shared savings program, Business, University of Michigan.
advanced illness management, Epic clarity reporting
Vijay is a big data evangelist and change catalyst,
and other quality-related initiatives. Vijay also
which he includes amongst his many specialities.
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John Carter
Senior Vice President, Analytics and
Business Insight
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
schwab.com 642 connections
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ohn Carter is Senior Vice President of Analytics, John is a member of American Statistical
Insight & Loyalty at Charles Schwab. In this Association and is past Chairman of the Direct
role, John is creating a world class analytics Marketing Association’s Analytics Council. He
and research organization that provides thought received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of
leadership and actionable insights to drive company Connecticut.
growth and client loyalty.
John has extensive background in analytics,
and is widely known as an expert in data, database
marketing, segmentation and predictive modelling.
Prior to joining Schwab, John was Chief Data Officer
at Equifax, Inc. where he had global responsibility for
data strategy, data acquisition, data quality and data
analytics. During his career, he’s held senior level
positions at Acxiom, Responsys, Citibank, Strategic
Mapping and Donnelley Marketing.
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Allen Crane
Vice President of Applied Analytics
USAA
usaa.com 769 connections
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llen has more than 13 years experience in start-ups such as Wells Fargo, AT&T, Dell, and Louis
eBusiness, web analytics, acquisition and Vuitton. He currently serves as Executive Director
retention marketing, profitability analysis, of Market Intelligence and Business Analytics at
segmentation, and process improvement. After USAA, where he is responsible for measuring the
co-developing one of the world’s first web mining overall performance of Member Analytics, Campaign
platforms at IBM, Allen went to Sabre, Inc., where his Analytics, Web and Channel Analytics, and the
work led to profitability improvements for customers Statistical Models that support them. USAA is a
including American Airlines. He led the first of several leading financial services company that has been
web analytics consulting teams at Dell, focused on voted Business Week’s “#1 Customer Service Champ”
providing analytical intelligence to drive growth for the second year in a row.
and profitability across multiple online business
units. He developed the first-ever business process Allen has authored articles and papers on
improvement program for pricing, marketing, and web analytics and optimizing online marketing
reverse-logistics teams and has spoken at several investments. He has been a guest lecturer at MIT
conferences on the subject. Sloan School of Business, the University of Texas
at Austin, and he is a sought-after speaker on Six
Allen expanded his analytical reach as Principal Sigma. Allen holds a M.S. in Operations Research
Consultant with Visual Sciences (now Omniture), a from Southern Methodist University, and a B.S. in
leading data analysis and visualization platform. With Information Systems from the University of Texas at
expertise in developing controlled experimentation Arlington.
strategies, his clients included Fortune 50 and
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Wes Hunt
Senior Vice President/
Chief Data Officer
Metlife
metlife.com 769 connections
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es Hunt has over 20 years experience initiated a unique industry/academia partnership
assisting enterprises in realizing value to create the next generation of applied analytics
through application of data and analytics. professionals through the Nationwide Center for
As Metlife’s Senior Vice President/Chief Data Officer, Advanced Customer Insights at the Ohio State
he is responsible for enterprise-wide governance and University. He is also an active contributor to the
the use of data as a strategic asset. He works closely Columbus 2020 data and analytics task force and
with business partners to determine the data to be Columbus Collaboratory.
captured, retained and exploited, while maximizing
value and minimizing risk. Prior to joining Nationwide in 2002, Mr. Hunt
was a Principal with IBM Global Business Services.
Mr. Hunt previously led Nationwide’s customer He previously held management positions at Wells
information and data analytics function at Fargo Bank, KPMG, and JPMorgan Chase. He earned
Nationwide and sponsored efforts to create the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the
actionable insights and a single view of the customer CFA Institute in 1996, and has a Master of Business
across all consumer facing channels. Administration from the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. He has an undergraduate degree in economics
Wes has a passion for developing high performing and finance from Southern Methodist University in
teams and building talent in data and analytics. He Dallas, Texas.
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Maksim Pecherskiy
Chief Data Officer
City Of San Diego
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s the CDO for the City of San Diego, working complex integrations. He shaped workflow,
in the Performance & Analytics Department, configuration management and continuous
Maksim strives to bring the necessary integration processes, while leading and training
components together to allow the City’s residents to international development teams. Before his work
benefit from a more efficient, agile government that at Promet, he was a software engineer at AllPlayers,
is as innovative as the community around it. who was instrumental in the design and architecture
of the company’s APIs as well as development and
He has been solving complex problems with documentation of supporting client libraries in
technology for nearly a decade. He spent 2014 various languages.
working as a Code For America fellow in Puerto Rico
with a focus on economic development. His team Maksim graduated from DePaul University with a
delivered a product called PrimerPeso that provides bachelor of science degree in information systems
business owners and residents a tool to search, and and from Linköping University, Sweden, with a
apply for, government programs for which they may bachelor of science degree in international business.
be eligible. He is also certified as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Before moving to California, Maksim was a
Solutions Architect at Promet Source in Chicago
where he built large web applications and designed
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Mark Ramsey
Senior Vice President/Chief Data Officer
GSK
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r. Ramsey is a technology executive with first Chief Data Officer (CDO) for Samsung
more than twenty-five years experience Telecommunications America. He was also a member
in the successful design, development, of the executive leadership team responsible for the
implementation, and support of mission critical utilization of information as an asset, through data
systems leveraging data analytics and optimization consolidation, business intelligence, big data, social
to provide business advantage. He has been a media analytics and advanced data mining.
business intelligence and data analytics advisor
to senior executives (CEO, CFO, CMO, CIO) for Dr. Ramsey led the growth strategy, development
worldwide business, including: Korea, Japan, and launch of the IBM Business Analytics &
Hong Kong, Australia, France, UK, US, Thailand, Optimization business spanning over 150 countries
Singapore, Denmark, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Vietnam in the growth markets resulting in a technology
and Saudi Arabia in various industries including: organization of over 2,000 consultants with annual
Insurance, Banking, Telco, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, revenues exceeding $800m and a Cagr of over
CPG, Healthcare, Government, Airline, Hospitality, 80%. He is also an inventor for the patent on the
Manufacturing and Automotive. integration of data mining within a parallel relational
database, and the use of advanced analytics for user
He is the Head, R&D Data for GlaxoSmithKline behaviour monitoring, as well as 27 other patents and
plc, a multinational pharmaceutical company numerous patent-pending filings in the areas of data
headquartered in London, and the world’s sixth- analytics and optimization.
largest pharmaceutical company, and was the
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Liz Rowe
State Chief Data Officer,
Deputy Chief Technology Officer
for Policy and Governance
State of New Jersey
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iz Rowe is a pioneer in the new role of Chief the isCDO the International Society of Chief Data
Data Officer (CDO), a role solidifying the Officers; as well as a founding member of two
bifurcation of IT into distinction disciplines working groups within, the National Association of
governing Information and Technology. State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO); Privacy
and Data Protection Group, and Data Management
She is a member of the first wave of CDOs in Strategy Group. Liz is the co-author of the NASCIO
government. As the first CDO for the State of New Executive Issue Brief, “Data: The Lifeblood of State
Jersey, she has helped define the role of State CDO as Government.”
a critical component of an effective executive branch.
In the past 18 months, Liz has been recognized twice Liz is a sought-after speaker on big data and
nationally for her leadership in State government, information governance, most recently featured
and in 2017 was recognized as one of the Top 50 in “Priorities” podcast on Data Strategy and
Women in Government IT. Governance. She has presented at: Gartner’s Data
& Analytics Summit, The MIT Chief Data Officer
As a founding State CDO, Liz was asked to build Information Quality (MITCDOIQ) Symposium,
a governance organization and strategy from the The Government Chief Data Officer Forum, The
ground up. Her primary mission was to develop data Data Governance and Information Quality (DGIQ)
strategy and tie it directly to improving outcomes Conference, the New Jersey CDO Summit, and The
and solving business problems; then collaborating New Jersey Digital Government Summit.
with the technology organization to enable it.
Business strategy informing data strategy which Prior to joining state government, Liz worked
informs technology strategy. in the private sector and provided the vision and
direction for the development of enterprise-level
Liz was instrumental in the development and information standards; the design of integrated and
passage of the 2017 New Jersey Open Data Initiative. coordinated data management processes across
As one of the primary authors, she worked with key multiple functional areas, including: data acquisition,
stakeholders in both parties to define and enable storage, transformation, delivery, access and control,
Open Data within the state, as well as codify the role knowledge management, governance; the evaluation
of State CDO; defining and ensuring the governance and selection of the associated tools and technology;
of data and information within and across the and the structure of the organization required
executive branch. to support and maintain enterprise information
governance.
Liz is also a strategic advisor to the New Jersey
Big Data Alliance. She is a founding member of
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Michael Berger
VP, Population Health Informatics
and Data Science
Mount Sinai Health System
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ichael Berger is the Head of Population health plans, he has earned his stripes transforming
Health Analytics at Mount Sinai Health existing reporting resources and assets into high-
Partners, which is a critical lever in Mount performing data scientists and operational analytics
Sinai’s vision to transform into the leading population worth commercializing. His background in the
health manager in the USA. Michael is a contributor provider and payer space enables a perspective to
to this vision, heading up Mount Sinai’s population not only find the opportunities but to actually bend
health analytics group. By building a team of analysts, the cost curve and improve quality. Mike’s teams have
engineers and data science unicorns, Michael taken on the challenges of value-based payments,
leverages the understanding of claims and clinical out-of-control medical expenses and population
data to with data science methods and technologies health management through novel risk adjustment,
to find new ways to stratify and operationalize stratification, predictive modelling and patient/
population health management for Mount Sinai’s member engagement analytics.
hundreds of thousands of at-risk lives.
Always an industrial and systems engineer at-heart,
Michael is passionate about operationalizing data he brings operational consistency and scale to the fast-
science and having worked at large and complex changing world of analytics and presents his lessons of
integrated health systems, as well as heavily matrixed master-story-telling, at webinars and conferences.
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Jonathan Bickel
Director of Business Intelligence and
Clinical Research Informatics
Boston Children’s Hospital
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onathan Bicknel is the Director of Business implementation of the electronic medical record,
Intelligence and Clinical Research Informatics achieving a hospital-wide paperless system.
Children’s Hospital Boston, as well as Clinical As part of his role as Director of Clinical Research
Instructor at the Harvard Medical School, in the Informatics, he has led an ongoing effort to improve
Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, the availability of clinical data to the research
also located in the Children’s Hospital of Boston in community. Of note, over the past three years, his
Massachusetts, USA. team has been able to fulfil hundreds of research
requests and supported thousands of research
He is a proud graduate of the University of queries as a result of this clinical research platform
Pittsburgh Medical School and earned his Masters being available. As part of his role as Director of
of Biomedical Informatics at the Department of Business Intelligence, he has led an ongoing effort
Biomedical Informatics, also at the University of to improve the availability of clinical, quality, and
Pittsburgh. Previously, Jon was Clinical Instructor operational data to the Boston Children’s Hospital
at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC enterprise.
where he was instrumental in the development and
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Stephen Blackwelder
Chief Analytics Officer
Duke University Health System
dukehealth.org @AnalytixApplied
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tephen Blackwelder, PhD, leads the data infrastructure elements such as source data
warehouse, business intelligence, clinical and governance, best use practices and use adoption,
operational reporting, and analytics support and the development of a flexible architecture for
for Clinical and Translational Research at Duke delivery of sensitive information to a diverse group of
University Health System . He is responsible for stakeholders.
transforming data into actionable knowledge.
In collaboration with the Chief Health Information
Dr. Blackwelder is responsible for the design, Officer, Dr. Blackwelder is currently launching Duke
development, and maintenance of the enterprise Health’s Analytics Centre of Excellence. This shared
data warehouse, and for creation of a portfolio services resource team integrates these focus areas
of information services to support Duke Health’s together into a one-stop shop for enterprise data
clinical, research and educational missions as well analytics support across the health system and the
as its operational and financial goals. Information research enterprise.
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Jeff Bodzewski
Chief Analytics Officer
M Booth Midwest
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eff’s role at M Booth is to build and infuse a The Harvard Business Review recently profiled
culture of data and its parent company, Next him and his analytics work at M Booth alongside
15, that enhances the team’s abilities to reach companies such as eBay, KPMG and Clorox. He
consumers, motivate them to action and deliver is regularly quoted by media ranging from DM
measurable business and brand results. He and News to NPR and has recently spoken at various
his team have been recognized in trade media and conferences, such as IBM’s signature Chief Data
agency awards as contributing to the success of M Officer Symposium, Marketing to Women and New
Booth as a function that typically only the largest York Social Media Week. The leading data site,
agencies possess. iCrunchData, features Jeff as a regular contributor
about the industry.
Jeff is a senior marketer who has been an officer
at some of the world’s largest digital, advertising He currently leads data and analytics for M Booth,
and communications agencies. He has led seven the reigning Mid-size and Creative Agency of the
figure account teams, digital shared services and the Year, working with partners including American
data horizontal to help brands such as Microsoft, Express, Godiva, GM, Brooks Running and Tinder to
AT&T, Infiniti, Discover, Sprint and Carnival build build a culture of data that delivers the right message
relationships with consumers that drive revenue, to the right person at the right time. Jeff has been
loyalty and innovation. both an entrepreneur and senior leader responsible
for large P&Ls within Epsilon, Omnicom Group and
Publicis prior to M Booth.
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Bennett Borden
Chief Data Scientist
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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ennett B. Borden is the Chief Data Scientist at corporate fraud and other misconduct. Bennett also
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and responsible for builds machine-based learning models to transform
the firm’s data analytics strategy. Harnessing and improve legal outcomes in key corporate events
the power of data is essential for helping their clients including mergers and acquisitions, information
drive value in their business operations and telling governance program development and enforcement,
their side of the story in litigation, and Bennett is one litigation and investigations and business intelligence.
of the world’s first lawyer/data scientists and has
recently been appointed to the National Conference In addition to conducting both offensive and
of Lawyers and Scientists (NCLS) of the American defensive electronic discovery in complex litigation,
Academy for the Advancement of Science. Bennett has extensive experience counselling clients
on the establishment of information governance and
Bennett advises the Drinker Biddle & Reath records management policies. He regularly advises
LLP and its clients on the development and use of multinational clients regarding data privacy, security
analytics models that enable insight, data storytelling and regulatory compliance.
and economic value generation. Bennett’s ground-
breaking research into the use of machine-based Bennett is a frequent speaker and author and
learning and unstructured data for organizational a guest lecturer at Georgetown University Law
insight is now being put to work in data-driven early Centre, the University of Virginia Law School,
warning systems for clients to detect and prevent Temple University Law School and the University of
Maryland College of Information Studies.
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Craig Copland
Senior Vice President, Digital Catalyst, IoT
Swiss Re
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raig Copland is the Founder and strategic Fostering the building of teams and services
driver of the SwissRE Boston Catalyst, growing around veracity and velocity proof points while
to 6 verticals covered, and successfully built a growing long term economic advantages. He
team of senior level personnel and executive advisor’s is a sharp emerging technology analyst with a
for growing digital transformation, innovation and firm understanding of industry demands and
disruptive services that has now been internalized. opportunities to enable strong client facing decision-
making.
He has 16 plus years of leading, motivating and
developing successful products and services catering Craig is also an zctive participant in many of the
to telecommunications, IoT, M2M and Analytics. He world leading events around IoT, including World
is a Central node technology expert with a proven Economic Forum, CES and World Congress to name
history of driving revenue and growth of IoT products a few.
and services for established companies and new
ventures.
Craig founded the Boston Catalyst and drove
digital transformation internally through applied
research and growth of external partnerships,
products and ecosystems.
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Bryan Falchuk
Head of Claims
Hiscox
hiscox.com @bryanfalchuk
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ryan Falchuk is Head of Claims for Hiscox USA, Bryan holds an MBA from the Tuck School
the global specialist insurer’s US division. In this of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in
role, Bryan oversees an industry-leading claims Economics from Bowdoin College. He is also the
team and is responsible for the management and best-selling author, TEDx presenter and has written
operational performance of claims across a portfolio for many top publications like Inc. Magazine, The LA
of specialized insurance products. During his 20-year Times, Chicago Tribune and more.
career in the insurance industry, Bryan has held
leadership roles in corporate strategy, operations and
distribution at Liberty Mutual, Beazley and Coverys.
He has also served as a management consultant
to the insurance industry while at McKinsey &
Company.
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Simon Gao
Chief Analytics Officer
New York Life Insurance Company
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imon Gao has been employed at New York Simon is a strong data and analytics leader focused
Life since 2016 and has years of experience in on building and leading advanced analytics teams in
financial services industry in marketing and risk diverse industries, as well as being an experienced
analytics. He currently leads the data & Data Science leader who can identify opportunities to leverage
function for New York Life Direct. His responsibilities analytics to improve business results across the
include data science, Database management, enterprise and collaborate across the organization
database marketing & marketing analytics, predictive to drive change and capitalize on opportunities.
modelling, lifestyle based segmentation, Digital He holds strong expertise in strategic and tactical
channel/media attribution and optimization. Simon business planning, technology assessment, new
had worked in analytics leadership positions in business opportunity analysis, analytics system and
Accenture, CUNA Mutual Group, CNO Financial platform development, and acquiring/mentoring
Group, Citibank Cards. Simon graduated from the analytics staff.
University of Florida with a PhD. degree in applied
economics.
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Dr. Amy Gershkoff
Chief Data Officer
Ancenstry
ancestry.com @amygershkoff
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r. Amy Gershkoff is the Chief Data Officer company. Gershkoff has been named one of the
for Ancestry, the world’s leading genealogy nation’s “40 under 40” leading entrepreneurs and was
and consumer genomics company. Prior to featured in the Washington Post as one of the nation’s
joining Ancestry, she was Chief Data Officer at Zynga. most prominent innovators. She was also named one
Previously, Amy built and led the Customer Analytics of the Top 50 Women to Watch in Tech and one of
& Insights team and led the Global Data Science San Francisco’s Most Influential Women in Business.
team at eBay. She has also served as the Chief Data
Scientist for WPP, Data Alliance, where she worked Her articles have appeared in publications such
across WPP’s more than 350 operating companies as the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle,
worldwide to create integrated data and technology TechCrunch, and Business Insider, and she has been
solutions. She was also the Head of Media Planning at a commentator on NPR, Bloomberg News, ABC,
Obama for America 2012, where she was the architect CSPAN, and for various print media outlets including
of Obama’s advertising strategy and designed the the New York Times.
campaign’s analytics systems.
She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
A successful entrepreneur, Gershkoff co-founded
Changing Targets Media, an advertising analytics
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