Jon Cano-Lopez, Chief Executive, REaD Group
Path to power I am proud to describe myself as a data geek. I started work as a programmer at Centre-file, NatWest’s data centre, but soon saw the huge potential that data could deliver and left to start my own business, Altwood Systems, when I was 25. After a very successful 11 years, implementing […]
Christine Andrews, Director, DQM GRC
Path to power I started life in BT’s customer communications team, intending to stay for about two years, but ending up doing 11 years, working in advertising, marketing and sales, mostly for SMEs. I then moved to Cable & Wireless to develop the company’s attack on the SME market, working in sales and marketing before […]
Robin Huggins, Director of Academy, MBN
Path to power I entered the data industry 20 years ago, originally as a recruiter. Since then, I’ve spent my time wearing two overlapping hats. As client services director for MBN Solutions, I work with a portfolio of international organisations, assisting them to become the go-to destinations for the very best in data and technology. […]
Lyndsay Wise, Director of Market Intelligence, Information Builders
Path to power After graduating, I knew I wanted to be a business/systems analyst to help organisations gain more value from their data and create more efficient business processes to support outcomes. I transitioned to an industry analyst and consultant, which provided me with more insight into the data challenges organisations face and the limitations […]
Sue Daley, Associate Director of Technology and Innovation, techUK
Path to power I began working in technology as a public affairs account manager in a new business unit created to look at technology issues and e-business. This started my love of technology issues. I then joined the CBI, where I managed the first ever e-business council and was senior policy advisor on information security. […]
Chris Combemale, Chief Executive, Data & Marketing Association
Path to power Prior to leading an industry trade association, my career spanned agency, brand and technology companies starting with Young & Rubicam in New York in 1982. My 12 years at Y&R included five years in Asia from 1989, initially as regional account director for DY&R and then as general of Wunderman Hong Kong, […]
Doug Robertson, Head of UK Analytics, Cardlytics
Path to power I started out as an analyst almost by chance. It was a lower profile sector at the time and I was barely aware that it existed until I happened upon a job description that looked interesting. But it quickly became clear that I’d found my niche. I spent five years in […]
Edwina Dunn, Chief Executive Officer, Starcount
Path to power I started my career at CACI, a pioneering software consultancy that taught entrepreneurial leadership skills. I became the company’s youngest vice president and discovered my passion for data and technology. I met Clive Humby there and, in 1989, we founded dunnhumby together. In 1995, we launched Tesco Clubcard. We engaged millions of […]
Roisin McCarthy, Manager, Datatech Analytics
Path to power Starting her career as a junior recruiter in 2000, focusing exclusively on data and analytics, McCarthy has forged her career by building relationships between people who want to develop their careers and those who need the rare skills that these people can provide. As a result of her own efforts, over […]
Fedelma Good, Director, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Path to power My path to power has been paved not with gold, but with golden people – people without whom my career would not have been as successful (or enjoyable!). First up are my parents who supported the principles of a strong education, hard work, no limitations for girls and treating others the […]
Sandra Stanley, Head of Customer Knowledge UK and Ireland, dunnhumby
Path to power I joined dunnhumby, one of the early pioneers of data science, as a graduate analyst nearly 20 years ago. I have had amazing opportunities to grow my career here as the business went through explosive growth. As an analyst, I created some of our most famous approaches and models using grocery […]
Mark Hinds, Chief Executive Officer, Polymatica
Path to power The turning point in my career was when I joined a small business (34 people) in London called dunnhumby in 1996. As an analyst on the Tesco account, I was tasked to help make sense of Clubcard data and to support Tesco as it used insight to strengthen its proposition for […]
Marta Czerep, Analytic Consulting Senior Manager EMEA, FICO (Fair Isaac Services)
Path to power I am a mathematician by education with a Master’s degree from Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. I worked in one of the major Polish banks, in the credit risk department, before relocating to the UK in 2011. I am now a senior manager in FICO’s EMEA analytic consulting team working […]
Henry Lawson, Chief Executive Officer, autoGraph
Path to power After briefly becoming a mechanical engineer and then management consultant, I fell in love with the media industry in 1990’s New York. As digital advertising grew, it also became clear that we needed to do a much better job of relevance and privacy. The unbridled use of third-party data is stopping […]
Matthew Willis, Global Head of Data, Analytics and AI Capabilities, Refinitiv
Path to power After graduating in Maths and Computer Science from Sheffield University, my first job in data was building an Access database for a small hotel in Kirribilli, Sydney while on a year of travel. Stunning views of Sydney harbour and enough pocket money to keep me entertained (student-style) provided a soft landing […]
Tim Drye, Chief Data Officer, Yellow Zebra Artificial Intelligence
Path to power I began in academia, studying esoteric theoretical physics. While exploring wider statistical challenges. I was presented with a fascinating data problem involving human dynamics. I was hooked with the possibilities outside academia to tackle intriguing situations that had more direct impact on people’s lives. So began my engagement with this industry. […]
Amanda Arthur, VP Data and Analytics, Proximity London
Path to power I cut my direct marketing teeth in list-broking and event management. One of my early roles was hosting at the first-ever Direct Marketing Fair! A move to Dun & Bradstreet’s business information division as marketing manager followed, where I acquired business-to-business data-based marketing skills. From there, I spent over a decade […]
Michael O’Connell, Chief Analytics Officer, TIBCO Software
Path to power I was intrigued by maths and music from an early age. I recall being able to divide any four-digit number into any other number before starting school and having to leave the dinner table to uncontrollably shake to Kinks songs on the radio. I did undergraduate and Master’s Mathematics and Statistics […]
Andrew Haines, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, TAP London
Path to power I started as a computer programmer at Miller Starr after responding to a job ad in the Evening Standard at the time, if I recall correctly, Wednesday was IT job day back then. I bypassed university and went straight into work from college as I was always eager to be working. […]
Andy Rowe, Head of Marketing Sciences, Code
Path to power My big breakthrough came in 2009 playing an integral role in the set-up of the Costa Coffee loyalty scheme. I helped design the database eco-system, built the communication segmentations and ran the eCRM program (from an agency perspective). This led to me gaining great knowledge of the application of data as […]