Chris Clark, Chief Executive, GBG
Path to power I started work in 1991 when I joined BT Group on a general management graduate programme. I was excited to begin a career in telecoms and technology, because it appeared to be an industry about to go through a huge amount of change. I wasn’t wrong. During my 20 years at […]
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 […]
David Benigson, CEO and Founder, Signal AI
Path to power My career began in law, and I recall spending tens of thousands of hours reviewing contractual documents for specific information. It was this experience, coupled with how digital media was gaining momentum and modern technology innovations were just emerging, that led me to consider how artificial intelligence could be harnessed to make […]
Simon Blunn, Vice-President and General Manager EMEA, DataRobot
Path to power I have more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, specifically in enterprise software for data analytics and artificial intelligence. I also hold a first-class honours degree from UWE Bristol in business decision analysis. Early in my career, I held various sales leadership roles within HP and Cisco in the […]
Dr Iain Brown, Head of Data Science, SAS UK and Ireland
Path to power My career path to date is grounded in a fundamental curiosity for how the world around us works. My undergraduate and postgraduate degrees enabled me to explore the practical applications of statistics and computer modelling, to ask the right questions and this serendipitously led to a career in data science. Over […]
Ed Broussard, Chief Executive, Mudano
Path to power I’ve worked my entire career in data. I’d love to claim I had the foresight straight out of university that data was going to change the world over the subsequent couple of decades, but, if I’m honest, I was randomly assigned a project at the end of my graduate training at IBM […]
Hanan Belarbi, Former Head of Data EMEA, R/GA
Path to power After graduating with a master’s in statistics and economics, I was lucky to start my career working for data consultancies who shaped my technical skillset and strategic mindset back in Paris. I then moved more towards the creative industry, using data and technology in innovative ways at companies like Wunderman and […]
Antonio Acuña, Head of Consulting, Parity
Path to power I started by leading a few digital startups in the early 2000s, just before the dot.com bubble burst, before moving to government as a civil servant. Initially I worked on technology projects in the environmental sector, and then I moved to open data and digital transformation at the Government Digital Service and […]
Ben Cockrell, Head of Strategy and Data, ekino
Path to power I started my career in IT, running server infrastructure and providing user support for a small data and CRM agency. Over the past 16 years, I’ve taken on a range of agency roles, including account management, consultancy, project management, data planning, strategy and leadership positions. I’ve also worked on data strategy for […]
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 […]