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Aamer Charania
Best Buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning
Jayadev Gopinath
DraftKings
SVP of Data Engineering & Data Science
Murali Kallem
Salesforce
Head of Office of Data
Sonia Khosla
Globe Life
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Sanjeev Kumar
Gainwell
VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Mano Mannoochahr
Travelers
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Mark Nance
American Fidelity Assurance Company
Chief Data Officer
Phanii Pydimarri
Health Care Service Corporation
Data & Analytics Transformation Leader
Latheef Syed
Verizon
Vice President Data Products & Governance for Data & Analytics/ AI.
Caliber Home Loans
SVP, Chief Data Officer
Amazon
Head of Analytics
State of Texas
Chief Data & Analytics Officer (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
GM Financial
Chief Data Science Officer
McKesson
Sr. Director, GenAI Program & Portfolio Management
Keller Williams Realty
Chief Technology & Digital Officer
Comerica Bank
CDAO
NYC Health + Hospitals
Deputy Chief Data Officer
Marathon Petroleum
Head of Analytics and lnnovation
ALSAC St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Verizon
Head of AI/ML, Data Platform Engineering & Ops
USAA
IT Technical Director - Insurance Architecture
Rent-A-Center
Sr. Director Data Services
Mavenir
Group VP - AI, Analytics and Data R&D
Bon Secours Mercy Health
Head of Analytics Delivery
UnitedHealthcare
VP, Software Engineering
Lockheed Martin
Data Transformation Strategy & Integration Leader
Eviden
Global Head BAI
Diodes
Director Management Decision Systems and Supply Chain
Exeter Finance
EVP & Chief Data Officer
Essilor of America
Sr. Director Sales Analytics and Operations
Gartner
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Lennar
Head of Data Analytics
Medtronic
Director, Analytics & Insights, Global Operation
The Home Depot
Technology Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics
Carelon
Staff Vice President, Data and Analytics
Freeman
VP, Data Analytics & Strategy
Baylor Scott & White Health
Chief Digital Officer
Assurant
Global Head - Analytics
McKesson
VP of Digital Transformation
Marsh
SVP, Global Data & Analytics Portfolio
USAA
Executive Management, Data Science
Bank of America
Head of Data & Analytics-Retail, Preferred & Wealth Management
McAfee
Head of Data Science and Analytics
Truist
Chief Data Officer, Retail, Digital & Business Bank
RTX
Executive IT - Strategy & Transformation
Citigroup
Head of Master Data Governance, Director
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