The Data Strategy Show

In my 33rd and final episode of Season 1, I speak to:

We talk about:

1) Introductions and backgrounds.

2) Data challenges in the LATAM Region.

3) What type of CDO is required in the LATAM Region - Unicorn or Change.

4) The CDO Trap.

5) Why business ownership is key to driving revenues through data.

6) The first principles of data ideation.

7) High expectations of the CDO and why a data strategy is key to driving value.

8) How to get the board, c-suite adn the operations teams to understand the impact that data has on the culture of the organisation.

9) How to create a common language to drive transformation.

10) How to create and measure monetisation activities.

11) How to ensure analytical debt is reduced.

12) How to manage complexity across a large group of companies.

Iván Herrero Bartolomé is the Chief Data Officer at Grupo Intercorp. He has more than 20 years’ experience in Executive positions and is now responsible for the data strategy across the group (+30 companies in finance, retail, education, and healthcare). Ivan is the co-founder of CDO Latam.

Leandro Rocha de Andrade is the Senior VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer no Banco de Crédito del Peru BCP. He has more than 20 years’ experience in Executive positions related to Database Marketing, Advanced Analytics, AI, CRM and Business Intelligence, impacting the bottom-line delivering solutions based on customer experience/demands, for consumer and corporate segments. Leandro is a Board Member of CDO Latam.

Erick Jaramillo is the Director, Head of Digital Data & Analytics and has nearly 20 years of professional experience in the financial industry, leading teams, helping to solve business challenges through the use of disruptive technologies, innovation, data, and analytics.

About Samir:

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.  After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.  Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa.

He is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Contact: [email protected]

In my 32nd episode I speak to the awesome Antje Bustamante Director of Data & Analytics at Zoopla!  We talk about:  

1) A little bit about her background.  

2) Her role at Zoopla and how data has been a big influence. 

3) How she started to build and scale a team around data.

4) How the data team was organised within the corporate context.

5) How she and her team started to show value through the data layer, while building the foundational elements.

6) How she persuades / influences the C-Suite to think about ROI through data.

7) How she looks at the monetisation of the market place / eco-system at Zoopla.

8) How she brings teams together to solve a business problem through data.

9) How she aligned the data teams to the Zoopla culture.

10) The different techniques she deploys for data product development.

11) What advise she would give to the up and coming women in data. 

12) The top three skills that she thinks are important to those who are thinking about a data career. 

About Antje:  

Antje is Director of Data & Analytics at Zoopla, where she has been working since September 2019. With over 18 years of experience, Antje has built award-winning teams across analytics, data science and data engineering for market-place companies across Europe such as ImmobilienScout24. 

Her experience lies in building data product teams that drive direct and indirect monetization and in driving a data literate company culture. Antje is passionate about coaching and mentoring young female leaders and wants to empower more women to be successful in the field of data and leadership.

About Samir:  

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.  After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.  

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.  Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. 

He is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.  

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.    

Contact: [email protected]

In my 31st episode I speak to everyone's favourite data recruiter Kyle Winterbottom!

We talk about:

1) His background in engineering and what he's up to now.

2) What are the market trends that he's seeing in the data and analytics industry.

3) Data Scientists vs. Data Engineers - the coolness of data jobs!

4) Why culture is the biggest area most companies miss out when hiring for data and analytics.

5) Data titles everywhere and not an ounce of standardisation!

6) How to add a dose of reality in the data conversations when hiring.

7) How to shape the JDs for data leaders and veer away from pure tech.

8) Why there is still an obsession with tech at the highest level of data leadership

9) Why the NED is becoming a popular concept in the data space.

10) Top down vs. bottom up recruiting - what's better.

11) Why he is organising data round tables for the data industry

12) What's the next biggest trend in the data market.

About Kyle:

Kyle Winterbottom is the Founder & Managing Director of Orbition, which was established in September 2020 - a specialist recruitment agency within Data & Analytics.  He is hugely passionate about enabling organisations to drive decisions and obtain value from the use of Data, Analytics & AI.

Kyle is also a host of his very own podcast - Driven by Data: The Podcast. Host of the Driven by Data Northern Roundtables and all round nice guy!

About Samir

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.  After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.  Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. Is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.  Contact: [email protected]

In my 30th episode I speak to the the calm and collected Data Evangelist Julian Schwarzenbach! We talk about:

1) His background in engineering and data

2) His strapline "Data Doesn't have to be difficult"

3) Why we are still talking about Data Quality

4) How business functions need to take responsibility for their data and data governance activities

5) His approach to valuing data

6) His book: Managing Data Quality: A Practical Guide and the idea of the "data zoo"

7) The new British Standards he has launched around big data.

8) The work he does at the British Computer Society

About Julian:

Julian Schwarzenbach helps organisations improve their profitability, efficiency and quality through better exploitation of their data, particularly for asset intensive organisations. He works with organisations to improve the skills of staff, refine processes, develop standards and implement governance systems.

He has been the chair of the British Computer Society Data Management Specialist Group for over 10 years now and is a visiting lecturer at Birmingham city delivering lectures on data management, data exploitation and the use of technology.

About Samir

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.

After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.

Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. Is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Contact: [email protected]

In my 29th episode I speak to the incredible Christopher Bergh CEO & Head Chef at DataKitchen! We talk about:

1) A little bit about his background and bug bears.

2) Why DataOps matters in today's context.

3) How DataOps stitches data teams together.

4) How DataOps can be automate and build a good customer product.

5) Why Data & Analytics is a random walk in the forest.

6) What you need to have in place to drive DataOps.

7) How the collaborative effect works in DataOps.

8) Why people and process are the most important factors for leaders to focus on for Data & Analytics.

9) How culture is a big influence on getting DataOps weaved into the fabric of the organisation.

10) Who typically drives DataOps initiatives.

11) How writing the DataOps manifesto helped to articulate the need.

About Chris:

Chris Bergh is CEO & Head Chef at DataKitchen, a DataOps software & services startup. He has more than 30 years of research, software engineering, data analytics & executive management experience. At various points in his career, he has been a COO, CTO, VP & Director of Engineering. Chris is a recognized expert on DataOps. He is the co-author of The DataOps Cookbook & The DataOps Manifesto & a speaker on DataOps at many industry conferences. You can follow Chris on Twitter @ChrisBergh.

About Samir

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.

After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.

Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. Is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Contact: [email protected]

In my 28th episode I speak to the cool Moon Javaid Chief Strategy Officer at the 49ers! We talk about:

1) His background and how he got into the Sports world

2) How to ensure you couple Strategy & Analytics

3) His approach to data strategy at the 49ers

4) The main business levers / drivers that drove the data strategy

5) How data and analytics has driven the fan experience / acquisition at the 49ers

6) How surveys have helped the Voice of Fan and satisifaction

7) His simple "Happy or Not" Strategy to collect and analyse data

8) How to collaborate across multi-dimensions of partners through data usage

9) Executive Huddles and why they are successful for real-time decisioning

10) How the pandemic has increased collaboration and transparency through knowledge and data sharing

About Moon:

Moon Javaid is in his eighth season with the 49ers and currently serves as the chief strategy officer. In his role, Javaid oversees business intelligence, CRM and fan feedback; manages retail, mobile app, and concessionaire relationships; works on bids for large scale non-NFL events; supports the drive for local revenue; and aids other business aspects of the organization with strategic and analytical support.

Under Javaid’s guidance, the 49ers built a data warehouse that processes over 3 million records per day, and launched the award-winning Executive Huddle, the first real-time analytics control room on NFL game days. Executive Huddle’s recent awards of note include being named the Leader in Innovation by Leaders in Sports, and Best Venue Tech by TheStadiumBusiness. Executive Huddle is also a finalist for Sports Business Journal’s Best in Sports Technology, to be announced later this year.

Javaid has also collaborated with ticket operations to break NFL records for highest revenue in a regular season game, and secured bids for WrestleMania 31 and the Gold Cup Final. Under his leadership, the organization has acquired Cal-Hi Sports, the Emmy award-winning high school program, launched a sports medicine facility, and started the first conference in sports dedicated to business strategy, the Horizon Summit.

Previously, Javaid worked at Linden LLC, a healthcare-focused private equity fund and L.E.K. Consulting, a global management consulting firm.

A Cleveland native, Javaid graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in Psychology and Economics and later earned his MBA from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

Javaid currently resides with his wife, Marnie, in Willow Glen, CA.

About Samir

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.

After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.

Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. Is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Contact: [email protected]

In my 27th episode I speak to Jit Roy and Pritam Paul! We talk about:

1) Their backgrounds

2) Opportunity in data and digital for companies coming out of the pandemic.

3) Challenges that organisations are having when adapting to digital, data and cloud.

4) How to start bringing business and data folks together to deliver on innovation.

5) Who is best placed to drive business transformation from a holistic perspective across an organisation?

6) How to educate teams about AI and Machine Learning and how these will support the business models of the future?

7) Where do you factor change and culture into projects?

8) How do you cater for bias when building models?

9) Why "model governance" is key to AI?

10) Getting ROI from data and analytics investments?

10) What is the future of AI & Analytics?

About Jit:

Jit Roy leads BRIDGEi2i with a special focus on driving growth by delivering customer value for clients in their digital transformation journey. He co-founded BRIDGEi2i in 2011 and is committed to building the next generation of technology solutions to make AI real for enterprises.

He has 21 years of analytics experience. Before founding BRIDGEi2i was involved in setting up and scaling the analytics centre for Hewlett Packard. In an earlier leadership role, he was involved in building GE’s Analytics Center of Excellence in India (now Genpact Analytics.)

About Pritam:

Pritam Paul leads Innovation and Technology at BRIDGEi2i and provides strategic leadership for its business efforts with consumer industries. He brings over two decades of rich experience in analytical transformation involving technology and data science across various industries and functional domains. Pritam has worked with several Fortune 500 firms in customer intelligence, commercial spend optimization, operational effectiveness, sales transformation, and intelligent automation.

About Samir

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.

After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.

Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. Is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Contact: [email protected]

In my 26th episode I speak to recovering data scientist Joe Reis! We talk about:

1) His background and what he's up to now

2) What is a recovering data scientist?

3) Is Data Science losing it's edge?

4) What is the role of the Data Engineer and why they are needed in the data ecosystem?

5) Why data scientists are like "cross fit"?

6) What skills do the data scientists of today need to strengthen?

7) Why has the trend been to separate the the Data Engineer and the Machine Learning Engineer?

8) How do organisations that have legacy applications build better and highly efficient pipelines?

9) Why we are still seeing the same issues around Data Quality and it's affect on the Data Engineer.

10) Why the Data Engineer needs to be a diplomat.

10) What are the core skills the Data Engineer needs to be trained in?

11) The difference between the Data Engineer and the Data Architect?

12) What kind of team does an organisation need to start with in the analytics space?

About Joe:

Joe has labelled himself to be a "Recovering data scientist" and has firsthand experience with the challenges of succeeding with data. Data architect and data engineer. Helping companies build a solid data foundation. He is the CEO and founder of Ternary Data.

About Samir

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.

After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.

Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. Is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Contact: [email protected]

Episode 25 brings two rock stars in the data world to discuss the need for a new role in the C-Suite: The Chief Data Monetisation Officer.

Well, if there ever was a "rumble in the jungle" in the world of data, this would be it! This is better, bigger, geekier than Clay vs. Liston, the data punches were solid and unambiguous in this fiery clash between the two!

In the red corner it's Billlllllllll Schmarzo - The Dean of Big Data from Palo Alto! He's mean, he's keen, he's ready to monetise you! If you have a Data Monetisation Board even better! He's all in for the Chief Data Monetisation Officer!

In the blue corner it's Drew Smiiiiiiiith - An Advocate of Analytics for All from Portland! He's focused, he's taken his glasses off, and he's ready to battle it out and believes the current CDO role can handle the data monetisation challenge!

Who won? The Dean or the Advocate? Who will turn that data into gold! Listen in and find out!

Bill Schmarzo:

Author, Professor, Innovator and Consultant - Dean of Big Data

Adjunct Professor, Menlo College

Honorary Professor, National University of Ireland-Galway

Executive Fellow, University of San Francisco

For: 

Drew Smith:

Drew Smith is a VP at the International Institute for Analytics, where he is responsible for the Analytics Leadership Consortium

About Samir

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.

After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.

Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. Is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Contact: [email protected]

In my 24th episode I speak to Women in Analytics (WIA) CEO and founder Rehgan Avon! We talk about:

1) Her background and what she's up to now

2) Women in Analytics and the catalyst for founding it

3) Where next for the WIA community 

4) The challenges of diversity in the analytics industry

5) Why "model bias" needs greater diversity and transparency

6) Difference between the data scientist vs. data engineer

7) The practicalities of working in the data engineering space

8) The "last mile" of analytics and getting it right

9) Cognitive engineering and why it's required in defining the user experience

10) The make-up of the team required for an analytics project

10) Rehgan's observations about the trends in the data industry post the WIA conference

11) The need for regulation around AI & Ethics

12) How to get involved in WIA

About Rehgan:

Rehgan is the CEO & Co-Founder of Ikonos Analytics and has a background in integrated systems engineering and a strong focus on analytical technology, Rehgan has worked on architecting solutions and products around operationalizing machine learning models at scale within the large enterprise. Rehgan was a critical piece in developing the fundamental process architecture for one of the leading product companies in model operations, ModelOp. Rehgan’s previous experience has been fueled by a passion for early-stage startups and product development. 

She is also Founder & CEO of Women in Analytics, a global community to support the visibility of women making an impact in the analytics field.

About Samir

Samir is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. His passion for data strategy led him to launch the Data Strategy & Analytics Coaching Programme, and is host of the Data Strategy Show.

After a career in both private and public sectors Samir launched the datazuum brand in 2012, with a view to working with executives to deliver data strategy at a time when data was not seen as a business asset.

Today datazuum delivers projects across both private and public sectors including: Charities, Financial Services (Banking & Insurance), Government, Housing & Construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics, Media & Publishing, Outsourcing, Postal, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and Utilities.

Samir has 20 years of international experience across Europe, North America, and Africa. Is a regular speaker at international conferences, coach / mentor, a charity fundraiser, and youth champion for Working Knowledge - supporting young people to achieve their personal and career goals in life.

Samir lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Contact: [email protected]