San Francisco CDAO Community

San Francisco CDAO Governing Body

A regional Governing Body leads the San Francisco CDAO community, shaping the topics and agendas for your local programs and ensuring that all content is driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Patrick Bangert

Occidental Petroleum
Chief of AI

Sam Hamilton

Visa
SVP, Global Head of Data & AI

Francesca La O

Early Warning
Chief Data Officer

Sharad Mathur

Zoom
Global Head of Data & Analytics

Kiran Mysore

Sutter Health
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Christopher Paskins

McKesson
Data and AI Governance Leader

Fauzia Saeed

McKesson
VP, Data Product Strategy & Governance

Deep Ratna Srivastav

Franklin Templeton
Chief AI Officer

Governing Body Members

Ashwin Aravindakshan

University of California - Davis
Associate Professor & Director, Masters of Science in Business Analytics

Bruno Aziza

IBM
Group VP, Data, BI & AI

Ramnik Bajaj

USAA
CDAO

Aparna Banerjee

Roche
Head Global Data & Analytics Operations

Sonali Bhagwat

Adobe
Sr. Director, Data Governance

William Chiu

NMI Holdings
VP, Head of Predictive Modeling

Mark Clare

Quest Diagnostics
Chief Data Officer

Brady Cole

Equifax
Global Enterprise Data Officer

Chitrang Dave

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Global Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics

Mike DeCesaris

Cornerstone Research
VP, Head of Data Science Center

Harshal Dedhia

Houzz
Head of Data Science & Data Engineering

June Dershewitz

Amazon
Head of Data Strategy

Mike Doll

Guitar Center
VP, Data

Kapil Gupta

ANGI Homeservices
Chief AI Officer

Meenal Iyer

Survey Monkey
VP, Data

Sajjad Jaffer

GrowthCurveCapital
Head of Data, Analytics and Machine Learning

Gaurav Jindal

Cricut
Head of Data

Srujana Kaddevarmuth

Walmart
AI Leader, Group Director AI/ ML COE

Zoher Karu

Blue Shield of California
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Manesh Kitanhoth

GE Aerospace
Head of Data & Analytics

Kirit Kottam

Green Dot
Sr. Director Data Science

Vijay Kotu

ServiceNow
Chief Analytics Officer

Sudeep Kumar

Ciena
Global Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics

Ki Lai

University of California - San Francisco
Chief Data & Analytics Officer

David Leach

PG&E
SVP, CDAO & Chief Security Officer

Manjula Mahajan

Model N
VP & Head of IT, Business Technology and Data Analytics

Cindy Muscio

Sunbit
Head of Data

William Neil

JPMorgan Chase
VP, Client Data and Data Architecture

Flo Oswald

Guaranteed Rate
VP, Data Strategy and Governance

Vivek Patel

Ampere Computing
VP of Enterprise AI & Data Management

Brad Pflum

Course Hero
Head of Analytics & Data Science

Pieter-Paul Ploeg

Heineken
Head of Data & Analytics at Lagunitas

Vinay Reddy Ravoola

Elavon
SVP, Data & Analytics

Anand Sahasram

Dodge & Cox
CDO

Bala Sahejpal

DocuSign
Chief Data Officer

Sri Saikrishnan

InnovAge
VP, Data and Intelligence

Barkha Saxena

Chime
Global CDO

Amit Sethi

New Relic
VP & CIO

Sriram Sirisinahal

Unity
Head of Enterprise Data

Ashok Srivastava

Intuit
CDO

Vinesh Sukumar

Qualcomm
Head of AI Product

Hemang Timbadia

Apple
Global Head of Payments & Commerce Data & Analytics

Hemant Todi

Delta Dental of California
Vice President, Data Analytics & Insights

Sandeep Uttamchandani

Intuit
VP, A2D (Analytics, AI, Data)

Jeremy Welland

Gusto
CDO

Sophine (Yue) Zhang

Cisco Meraki
Head of Data Science

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Upcoming Programs

IN-PERSON

November 6, 2025 | 1 day

San Francisco CDAO Community Executive Summit

Grand Hyatt at SFO

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

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AMERIPRISE BANK

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TTX

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UBS INC.

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Driving Strategic AI — A CDAO’s Roadmap to Success

CEOs are increasingly focusing on AI initiatives, and consequently, CDAOs are challenged with establishing the groundwork for these initiatives and aligning their strategies with the business' evolving digital requirements. Recently, CDAOs from the Toronto Community gathered for a Town Hall to deliberate on the current AI landscape and identify actionable strategies to implement within their organizations – These are the key takeaways.

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INFOGRAPHIC | MARCH 7, 2025

2025 CDAO Leadership Perspectives

In 2025, CDAOs are playing a pivotal role in establishing the foundation required for an AI-ready organization. More than 350 CDAOs have shared their priorities for the year ahead in our annual survey – here’s what they reported.