CDAO Fall
2024 Speaker Lineup

Steve Boras
Chief Data Officer
Citizens Bank

Vishal Patal
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Webster Bank

Ajai Sehgal
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Mayo Clinic

David Dobbs
Vice President, Chief Data Officer
HMSA

Chun Schiros
Chief Analytics Officer
Associated Bank

Tarun Sood
Chief Data Officer
American Century Investment

Shahidul Mannan
Chief Data Officer
Mercy Health

Chris Bennett
Chief Data Officer
Vanguard

Christopher Hutchins
Senior Vice President, Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Lifepoint Health

Besa Bauta
Chief Information Officer
Jewish Board

Ansar Kassim
Head of Analytics & Insights
Verizon

Carly Van Zandt
Senior Director, Data Governance
Fresenius Medical Care

Joe Delpercio
Director, Analytics Services
Zeus Industrial Products

Jen Courant
Chief Data Officer
DWS Group

David Smith
Director of Data Governance
New Balance

Matthew McGinnis
Vice President of Data & Analytics
The Cigna Group

David Dietrich
Vice President, Advances Analytics & Governance
Fidelity Investments

Angelo Riddick
Chief Information Officer
The State of New York (former)

John Chan
Director of Technology, AI/ML
Raymond James

Zach Elewitz
Head of AI
Fortune Brands

Joshua Merrill
Enterprise Data, Analytics & Reporting
Boston Children's Hospital

Tu Le
Head of Retail Bank Operations
USAA Federal Savings Bank

David Cass
Chief Information Security Officer
GSR

Farid Sheikhi
Manager, Business Intelligence & Digital Transformation
KFC Canada

Diego de Aragao
Senior Vice President, Balance Sheet Management & Analytics
Citi

Jalaj Roy
Vice President, Enterprise Data Architecture
Deutsche Bank

Kevin Langford
Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer
ExpressJet Airlines

Westie Magnuson
Chief People Officer
Cornel's Plumbing, Heating & Air

Chandra Kapireddy
Firmwide Head of Gen AI, ML & Analytics
TRUIST

Robin Patra
Head of Innovation, Director Data & Analytics
ACRO Construction

Maggie Ward
Manager, Talent Ops Data & Reporting
Netflix

Lindsey Usher
Chief People Officer
ETE Reman

Div Khanna
Global Head of People Data Strategy & Analytics
Kenvue

Kendell Timmers
Senior Vice President, Head of Data & Insights
The New York Times

Kevin Nickerson
Assistant Vice President, Analytics & Sales Enablement
Chubb

Gunjan Aggarwal
Executive Director, Data Strategy & Marketing Data Solutions
Novartis

Avinash Tripathi
Vice President, Analytics
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX

Catherine Shen
Senior Director, US Pharmaceuticals Commercial Data & Reporting
GSK

Lauren Gardener
Senior Manager, Voice of Customer Strategy
Stash

Gerardo Nunez
Data Architecture Manager
The New York Times

Erum Manzoor
Senior Vice President
CITI

Ryan Simone
Vice President, Data Strategy
Betches Media

Maksim Kravets
Executive Director, Strategy & Operations
CVS Health

Anurag Minocha
Senior Managing Director, Head of Data Products & Reg Data Strategy
Webster Bank

Justin Yu
Senior Director, Infrastructure & Insights
Audible, Inc

Sam Marks
Director of Business Strategy, Solutions & Analytics
Boston Bruins

Vinay Narayana
Senior Director, Engineer, Data Analytics & ML
Levi Strauss & Co

Jennifer Mezzio
Global HR Data Officer
First Citizens Bank

Senthil Padmanabhan
Vice President, Technical Fellow, Platform & Infra Engineering
eBay

Seema Swamy
Senior Director, Insights, Analytics & Data Science
Walmart

Tonjia Coverdale
Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer for Operations & Technology
Associated Bank

Susanna Raj
Women In AI

Dr. Tiffany Perkins-Munn
Managing Director, Head of Data & Analytics for JPMC Marketing
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Jayeeta Putatunda
Senior Data Scientist - NLP & Gen AI, Manager, Emerging Technologies
Fitch Group, Inc

Glenn Hofmann
Chief Analytics Officer
New York Life Insurance

Bappa Roy
Chief Cloud Architect
The TJX Companies, Inc

Vivek Goel
Chief AI Strategist
Wellness Connection

Var Shankar
Associate, Grail Lab
Purdue University

Karina Klever
Governance & Compliance Expert

Anusha Dandapani
Chief Data & AI Services Officer
UNICC

Sowmya Subramanian
Executive Vice President
Warner Bros. Discovery

Eric Higgins
Vice President, Global Online Data Science
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Selvin Selbaraju
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Deliveroo

Arohi Nair
Office of Chief Information Officer, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security

Samta Shukla
Director of AI & Data Science
Blue Cross and Blue Shields of Minnesota

Darien Acosta
Chief AI Officer
Cover Whale

Sanjaya Swamy
Director of ML Engineering, Card Tech Machine Learning
Capital One

Sudeep Das
Head of Machine Learning/AI - New Business Verticals
DoorDash

Rohit Raghunathan
Head of Engineering, New Verticals Consumer
DoorDash

Ram Gautam
Clinical Platform
Teladoc Health

Erich Gazaui
Chief Information Officer
Papa

Tamilla Triantoro
Director MS, Business Analytics
Quinnipiac University

Jim Griffin
AI Practice Lead, Business Analytics Faculty
University of Texas

Barnak Banerjee
Managing Director, Data Engineering
Webster Bank

Haroon Abbu
Senior Vice President, Digital Technology & Data Analytics
BELL & HOWELL

Cecilia Dones
Professor
Columbia Business School

Kevin Kramer
Senior Vice President, Data Science & Analytics
Recovery Centers of America

Sam Ransbotham
Artificial Intelligence & Business Strategy
MIT Sloan Management Review

Shreesha Jagadeesh
Associate Director of Applied Machine Learning
Best Buy

Puneet Matai
Data and AI Governance lead - RT Commercial
Rio Tinto

Bhagyesh Phanse
Vice President, Analytics & Data Science
Starbucks

Nachiket Mehta
Head of Data & Analytics, Engineering, Global Operations
Wayfair

Andrew Patricio
Principal, Data & Analytics
UNIDOSUS

Alex Golbin
Managing Director, Chief Data Officer & Interim Chief Technology Officer
Hudson Bay Capital Management

Anton Pavlov
Senior Manager, Customer Data & Marketing Automation
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Sabaita Mohsin
AI Product Leader
Caterpillar Inc.

Corey M. Dennis
Senior Director, Global Counsel, Information Security & Privacy
Eli Lilly & Company

John Giaquinto
Vice President of Loyalty, Personalization & Analytics
Rite Aid

Christopher Hart
Partner, Co-Chair, Privacy & Data Security Group
Foley Hoag LLP

Thomas Shola
Chief Risk & Privacy Officer
Northern Bank

Samuel Rosenthal
Director of Data Strategy & Analytics
Foley Hoag LLP

Beverly Wright, PHD, CAP
Academic Program Director, Data Science & AI
The University of Georgia

Selvin Selbaraju
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Deliveroo

Keerti Purohit
Executive Director, Data & Analytics
Verizon

Ian James
Head of Data Strategy
Righthand Robotics Inc

Sammi Tang
Vice President, Global Head of Biometrics Department, Quantitative Medicine, Data Strategy, Medical Wring
Servier

Gabrielle Riese
Model Risk Manager
Citizens

Edward Loessi
Senior Manager, eCommerce Technology and Performance Analytics
Ahold Delhaize

Shweta Mahajan
Product Owner, Data Management Lead
Bloomberg

Rose Lally
Chief Information Security Officer, Vice President, Governance & Controls
Altisource

Rahil Parikh
Applied Scientist
Amazon

Kiran Kodali
Head of R&D Data Strategy & Governance, Data & Foundations
Sanofi

Parag Shah
Vice President of Data
Cargurus

Kevin Medeiros
Vice President, Senior Information Security Risk Officer
Workers Credit Union

Laks Meyyappan
Executive Director, Algorithms & Data Science
CVS Health

Armin Mahmutefendic
Chief Technology Officer
Madison International Realty

Sudheesh Kamath
Senior Director, Global Data & AI Products
Kenvue

Chi-Chi Zhang
Senior Director of Product, Machine Learning & Personalization for News
Yahoo

Neetu Togani
Managing Director, Analytics, Data & Reporting
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Sudheesh Kamath
Senior Director, Global Data & AI Products
Kenvue

John Hernandez
Director, Content Analytics
ALM Media

Steven Fransblow
Senior Vice President, Data
Mixbook

Vikrant Saxena
Senior Vice President, Analytics Officer
Global Atlantics Financial Group

Arun Venuturupalli
Data Architect Environmental Solutions and Services
Veolia North America

Crystal Garcia
Director, Data Science
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Cindi Howson
Chief Data Strategy Officer
ThoughtSpot

Dr. Kjell Carlsson
Head of AI Strategy
Domino

Colin Kennedy
COO & Co-Founder
Shelf

Igor Jablokov
Chief Executive Officer
Pryon

Jessica Lin
Lead Data Scientist
DataRobot

Jordan Burger
Lead Researcher, AI Applications
Keboola
Karim Samouda
Senior Director, Infrastructure & Architecture Management
Vosker

Karl Massougbodji
Vice President, Data Management, AI & Information
Vosker

Pete Foley
CEO
ModelOp