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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

Confie
VP of Data Sciences

Brandon Brown

Laredo Petroleum
Vice President & CIO

Antonio Carbajal

iHeartMedia
VP, Data Science

Wes Chaar

Catalina
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Aamer Charania

Best Buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning

Jason Clark

Brinks Home
Sr. Director, Business Intelligence

Chris Crotts

Toyota Motor North America
Group Manager, Advanced Technologies and Data

Mansi Deshpande

Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope
CDO

Soumya Ganguly

Texas Capital Bank
Senior Vice President - Head of Enterprise Data Services & Engineering

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

Murali Kalem

Salesforce
Head of Office of Data

Shrikanth Kannan

Rent-A-Center
Sr. Director Data Services

Pankaj Kenjale

Mavenir
Group VP - AI, Analytics and Data R&D

Sonia Khosla

Clario
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Nick Korsunsky

BNSF Railway
Director, Enter. Info. Mgmt.

Naren Kumar

Exeter Finance
EVP, Chief Data Officer

Sanjeev Kumar

Gainwell
Vice President & Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Farukh Lakhani

Essilor of America
Sr. Director Sales Analytics and Operations

Amarnath Lingam

CDW
Vice President, Head of Enterprise Data Science and Advanced Analytics/AI

Sri Mandavilli

Avantor
Vice President - Global Digital & Data Analytics

Mano Mannoochahr

The Travelers Companies Inc
SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Vivek Menon

Digital Turbine
VP and Head of Cybersecurity & Compliance

Sam Mohanty

Prime Therapeutics
Chief Data Officer

Manish Motiramani

Medtronic
Director, Analytics & Insights, Global Operation

Andrea Pelosi

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

Dalia Powers

Humana
SVP & CIO, Digital & Data Platforms

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
Vice President, Information Technology

Jayesh Shah

McKesson
VP of Digital Transformation

Chintan Shah

Assurant
Vice President - Data and Business Analytics

Raju Shah

Mouser Electronics
SVP, Information Services

Seemit Sheth

USAA
Head of Data Science, Executive Management

Zul Sidi

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

Ben Taylor

Mary Kay
Director of Business Intelligence & Corporate Apps

Srikanth Victory

CommonSpirit Health
Vice President of Digital Products & Analytics

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Upcoming Programs

IN-PERSON

June, 2023 | 1 day

Dallas CDO Executive Summit

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

September, 2023 | an evening

Dallas CDO Inner Circle

A gathering with peers to discuss timely topics over dinner in a private setting.

Content from your CDO peers

BLOG | SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Bridge the Skills Gap: 3 Talent Strategies for CDOs to Recruit Top-Tier Graduates

With many job postings for mid- and senior level positions going unfilled, CDOs are evaluating how they can hire and train entry level candidates to grow with the business. Here are 3 talent strategies CDOs can use to hire top-tier graduates.

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BLOG | SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Next Big Question with Staples, JLL, Warner Music Group and Delta Air Lines

In Evanta’s The Next Big Question podcast, we ask C-level executives from the most innovative companies a pressing business question to learn how they are tackling it within their organization. Listen as executives from Staples, JLL, Warner Music Group and Delta Air Lines address the biggest question facing their role today.