Dallas CDO Community

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDOs today.

Expanding digital business & accelerating value creation
Influencing culture & collaboration with governance
Orchestrating change & empowering real-time decisions

Dallas CDO Governing Body

A regional Governing Body leads the Dallas CDO community, shaping the topics and agendas for your local programs and ensuring that all content is driven by CDOs, for CDOs.

Co-Chairs

Jayadev Gopinath

DraftKings
SVP, Global Data Engineering

Suzi Myers

Conduent
Senior Director, Enterprise Business Intelligence

Mark Nance

American Fidelity Corporation
Chief Data Officer

Phanii Pydimarri

Stanley Black & Decker
Sr Director, AI & Advanced Analytics

Latheef Syed

Verizon
Head of Data Architecture & Products - Artificial Intelligence + Data

Members

Sankar Bala

Caliber Home Loans
Chief Data Officer

Anil Bariki

National Life Group
Head of Data and Analytics

Brandon Brown

Laredo Petroleum
Vice President & CIO

Antonio Carbajal

iHeartMedia
VP, Data Science

Alberto Centeno

Commercial Metals
Director, Supply Chain Analytics

Wes Chaar

Catalina
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Aamer Charania

Best Buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning

Jason Clark

Brinks Home
Sr. Director, Business Intelligence

Richard Crawford

Texas Capital Bank
SVP, Director of Enterprise Data Management

Chris Crotts

Toyota Motor North America
Group Manager, Advanced Technologies and Data

Mansi Deshpande

Corsicana Mattress
Director, Enterprise IT

Lee Green

Tokyo Electron America
Director, BI and EDW

Shahran Haider

Los Angeles Care Health Plan
Former Managing Director, Enterprise Data Strategy & Analytics

Jason Jue

USAA
IT Technical Director

Sonia Khosla

Clario
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Nick Korsunsky

BNSF Railway
Director, Enter. Info. Mgmt.

Naren Kumar

Exeter Finance
EVP, Chief Data Officer

Farukh Lakhani

Essilor of America
Sr. Director Sales Analytics and Operations

Amarnath Lingam

CDW
Head of Enterprise Advanced Analytics & Data Science/AI

Sri Mandavilli

Avantor
Vice President - Global Digital & Data Analytics

Mano Mannoochahr

The Travelers Companies Inc
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Vivek Menon

JPMorgan Chase
Executive Director, Cybersecurity

Sam Mohanty

Prime Therapeutics
Chief Data Officer

Manish Motiramani

Medtronic
Director, Analytics & Insights, Global Operation

Andrea Pelosi

Vistra Energy
Sr. Director, Corporate Applications, Data & Analytics

Girish Ramachandran

City of Dallas, TX
Chief Technology Architect

Nick Reddy

Baylor Scott & White Health
Chief Digital Officer

Dev Reddy

Raytheon Technologies
Principal Architect

Robert Rosen

Arcosa
Corporate Vice President, Information Technology

Chintan Shah

Assurant
Vice President - Data and Business Analytics

Jayesh Shah

McKesson Corporation
Senior Director, Strategic Pricing & Special Projects, Multisource Products & Analytics

Raju Shah

Mouser Electronics
SVP, Information Services

Zul Sidi

Bank of America
Head of Data & Analytics-Retail, Preferred & Wealth Management

Hettie Tabor

Southern Methodist University
Director for Master of Science in Business Analytics

Ben Taylor

Mary Kay
Director of Business Intelligence & Corporate Apps

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HALLIBURTON

Upcoming Programs

IN-PERSON

June 14, 2022 | 1 day

Dallas CDO Executive Summit

Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria

Walk away from this peer-led program with new connections and with actionable insights.

August 18, 2022 | 1 hour

Texas CDO Virtual Town Hall

An interactive, peer-led discussion on current topics and priorities.

Content from your CDO peers

BLOG | MAY 18, 2022

The CDO’s Perspective: Data-Driven Culture

Creating a data-driven culture is the number two priority for CDOs in 2022. What are data and analytics leaders telling us about their progress on data culture? Here are some CDO perspectives on how their organizations are adopting a more data-driven culture.

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TOWN HALL INSIGHTS | MAY 11, 2022

Harnessing Unstructured Data with AI

The amount of data created and consumed across the globe is growing at an unfathomable rate. But, enterprises can utilize AI to channel this unstructured data toward innovation and sharper data-driven decisions. Read insights from this New York CDO discussion on harnessing unstructured data.

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BLOG | MAY 5, 2022

3 Areas of Focus for C-Suite Leaders in 2022

After a couple of highly unusual years filled with business uncertainty on the back of a global pandemic, what are C-suite leaders focused on this year? Read the 3 areas executives cited in our survey as their most important priorities for 2022.