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Southern California CDO Community
Gain powerful new perspectives
Join fellow CDOs in the Southern California community to solve critical leadership challenges through the collective experiences and expertise of the network.
Invaluable network
Build a strong professional network where you live and work. Access the collective expertise of your true peers all in one place. Make new connections and catch up with old friends.
Peer collaboration
Gain new perspectives from peers who understand your most critical priorities and are facing the same challenges -- generate ideas, share real-life experiences and get forward-looking guidance and insights.
Actionable insights
Exchange best practices, validate strategies and walk away with practical insights that are immediately actionable.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDOs today.
- Adopting modern D&A strategies and operating models that deliver business value in volatile environments
- Generating measurable economic benefits to the business from available data assets and advanced analytics
- Becoming a master change agent and driving data literacy across the enterprise
Southern California CDO Governing Body
A regional Governing Body leads the Southern California CDO community, shaping the topics and agendas for your local programs and ensuring that all content is driven by CDOs, for CDOs.
Co-Chairs
Mike Burkes
Ultra Mobile
VP, Enterprise Information Management (CDO)
Tom Mullen
County of Riverside
Chief Data Officer
Tomas Soderstrom
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
IT Chief Technology & Innovation Officer
André Vargas
Creative Artists Agency
Chief Data Officer
Members
Meetali Agarwal
Pacific Life Insurance
Director, Enterprise Data
Seiji Akiyama
AAA
Principal, Data & Analytics
Brendan Aldrich
California State University
Chief Data Officer
Stephen Alford
Worldwide Environmental
CIO & CISO
Richard Battersby
AEG Worldwide
VP, BI & Analytics
David Buckholtz
Sony
SVP, Head of End User Capability
Chuck Chekuri
Skygen USA
Director, Innovation Lab
Kenny Choy
Inland Empire Health Plan
Director, Head of Healthcare Data Science
Hovannes Daniels
Kaiser Permanente
VP, Chief Data Officer
Ibrahim Debbagh
Verizon Media
Head of Data & Analytics - Verizon Media Platforms
Brian Docili
Technicolor
VP, Enterprise Applications
Stephan Erberich
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Chief Data Officer
Michael Fein
Rogers & Cowan PMK
SVP, Consumer Analytics & Paid Media Strategy
Rich Fox
Qdoba Restaurant Corporation
VP, Analytics & Finance
Brad Furukawa
Northrop Grumman
VP, Corporate Data & CTO
Christine Gambino
County of San Diego
Chief Data Officer
Hanoz Gandhi
Creative Channel
Chief Analytics Officer & EVP, Strategy
Hans Ghekiere
Aramark
Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture & Innovation
John Gim
RAPP
SVP, Marketing Sciences
Jay Gimple
Confie
Vice President, Data Services
Mark Greninger
County of Los Angeles
Chief Data Officer
Zane Hall
Maxim Integrated Products
Executive Director, IT
Jeanne Holm
City of Los Angeles, CA
Chief Data Officer
Martin Hosseini
City National Bank
Head of Data Office
Punnoose Isaac
Spokeo
VP, Data Analytics
Nathan Janos
System1
Chief Data Officer
Brian Kleber
Farmer's Insurance Group
AVP, Head of Customer Data & Privacy
Johnson Kosgei
SAG-AFTRA
Director, Data Engineering & Analytics
Stephanie Madison
University of California, Office of the President
Chief Quality, Data Analytics, Performance Management, Knowledge Management & PMO Officer
Rebecca Maffei
PETCO Animal Supplies
VP, IT Data & Analytics
Mohammed Mahbouba
Radiology Partners
Chief Data Officer
Vijay Manickam
OceanX
VP, Data & Analytics
Rajesh Marar
Ingram Micro
Executive Director, Cloud
Rajeev Mehrotra
LegalZoom
Director, Data Engineering & Analytics
Ashwani Muir
CareMore Health
Sr. Dir., Health Systems & Analytics
Sarath Ramaswami
Fox Corporation
SVP, Data Products
Joni Rolenaitis
Experian
VP, BIS Data Development & Chief Data Officer
Joe Rossi
Western Digital Corporation
Global Sr. Director, Big Data and Analytics
Eric Schmirler
KARL STORZ Endoscope
Global Head, Performance & Analytics
Vinay Soitkar
The Cheesecake Factory
Sr. Dir., Data Warehouse & BI
Mike Thompson
Cedars-Sinai
Executive Director of Enterprise Data Intelligence
Max Trichet
Capital Group
VP, Data Governance
Zeena Wright
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Head of Data Mgmt & Strategy - North America
Bruce Yen
Guess
Sr. Director of Business Intelligence & Mobile
Nabil Zaki
Utility Trailer Manufacturing
Sr. Mgr., Technical Computing
Upcoming programs
December 1, 2020
2020 Southern California CDO Executive Summit
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Walk away from this peer-led, one-day program with new connections and actionable insights.
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June 2021
2021 Southern California CDO Executive Summit
Walk away from this peer-led, one-day program with new connections and actionable insights.
Learn More
“I especially appreciate the chance to interact with peers from other companies and industries to share the woes and triumphs of data management.”
RENE KIM, SVP, GLOBAL DATA OFFICER
CHARLES SCHWAB
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