San Francisco CDO Community

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

San Francisco CDO Governing Body

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

Co-Chairs

Steffin Harris

Microsoft Corporation
Corporate Vice President, Global Head of Data Science & Analytics

Shadaab Kanwal

Charles Schwab
Executive Leader MD - Digital, Data, and Analytics Services

Christopher Paskins

Solidigm
Director of Enterprise Data Governance

Members

Raghu Achar

Exelixis
Executive Director, Pharma Supply Chain, Manufacturing & G&A

Ashwin Aravindakshan

University of California - Davis
Academic Director, Masters of Science in Business Analytics

Hernán Asorey

Microsoft Corporation
Chief Data Officer, Worldwide Commercial Software Engineering

Ramnik Bajaj

USAA
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Aparna Banerjee

Roche
Head Global Data & Analytics Operations

Patrick Bangert

Samsung SDS
VP & Head of Artificial Intelligence

Sonali Bhagwat

Twitter
Director, Data Strategy and Governance

Ken Calhoon

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers
Vice President, Data Analytics

Eric Callmann

S&P Global
Head of Data Enablement

Clinton Cohagan

Department of Energy - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Chief Enterprise Information Architect

Brady Cole

Bank of the West
Chief Data Officer

Aaron Crews

UnitedLex
SVP Analytics & AI

Max Cuellar

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Chief Data Officer

Cara Dailey

LPL Financial
EVP, Chief Data Officer

Chitrang Dave

Medtronic
IT Director - Data, Analytics, and Business Intelligence

Mike DeCesaris

Cornerstone Research
Head of Data Science Center

June Dershewitz

Amazon
Head of Data Strategy - Amazon Music

David Dobbs

Hawaii Medical Service Association
Vice President, Health Data Integration and Analytics

Mark Dunning

Square
VP, Analytics & Data Science

Anil Earla

Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Les Fondy

Ubisoft
VP, Worldwide IT

Meenal Iyer

Tailored Brands
Sr. Director, Enterprise Analytics & Data

Shanthi Iyer

DocuSign
CIO

Romit Jadhwani

Pinterest
Head of Growth Analytics, Data Science and Business Intelligence

Sham Kashikar

Facebook
Global Head of Analytics & Data Management

Manesh Kitanhoth

Willis Towers Watson
Sr. Director, EDW & Business Intelligence

Vijay Kotu

ServiceNow
SVP of Analytics

Jonas Kriks

ATEL Capital Group
CIO

Sudeep Kumar

Ciena
Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics

Adam Leary

Paramount Streaming
VP, Applied Machine Learning Group

George Leng

Equinix
Global Head of Data & Analytics

Uwe Liebetrau

Bio-Rad Laboratories
Head of IT Strategy and Operations

Manjula Mahajan

Model N
Head of IT

Azadeh Moghtaderi

Ancestry.com
VP of Data Science & Analytics

Cindy Muscio

LendingClub
VP Data Platform, Services & MarTech

William Neil

First Republic Bank
VP Client Data and Data Architecture

Brad Pflum

2K
Head of Data Science

Srinivasan Rangaswamy

Analog Devices
Executive Director

James Reimann

Genentech
VP, Global Head of Data Strategy & Delivery in Product Development

Barkha Saxena

Poshmark
Chief Data Officer

Amit Sethi

New Relic
VP, Data Technology & Engineering

Greg Siino

University of California - Davis
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Business Intelligence

Harinder Singh

Albertsons Companies
VP Data Management and Governance

Ashok Srivastava

Intuit
SVP & Chief Data Officer

Dr. Vinesh Sukumar

Qualcomm
Head of AI Product

Hemang Timbadia

Apple
Global Head of Payments Data Engineering & Analytics

Prasad Uddaraju

First Republic Bank
Deputy Chief Data Officer

Tara Vaishnav

General Mills
VP, Tech Strategy, Innovation, & Architecture

Jeremy Welland

Google
Global Head of Data Science & Analytics

Jeff Wright

Dropbox
VP, Business Strategy & Operation

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Upcoming Programs

VIRTUAL

September 15, 2022 | 1 hour

San Francisco CDO Virtual Town Hall

Leading with Data — Propelling Organizational Success

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

December 8, 2022 | 1 day

San Francisco CDO Executive Summit

San Francisco Marriott Marquis

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

Content from your CDO peers

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What Community Brings to Executives

We have written before about the value of community and how important it is in a hybrid world. Here, we reflect on what community means from the perspective of executives. This is how they describe the value of getting together with a community of their peers.

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LEADERSHIP PROFILE | JUNE 27, 2022

How the NHS Maintains the Momentum towards Digitalisation

How can executives drive support and enthusiasm for the endless digitalisation journey? Ming Tang, CDAO, NHS England, shares how her team is using learnings from the pandemic to deepen the momentum towards digitalisation in this new era of business.

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SURVEY REPORT | JUNE 21, 2022

Top 3 Goals & Challenges for CDOs in 2022

The role of the CDO is rising in organizations across the globe, unlocking opportunities for growth and innovation. Here, we take a closer look at their top goals and challenges, based on results from Evanta’s 2022 Leadership Perspective Survey.

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