DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – The Professor Derek Holder lifetime achievement award: Helen Crooks

In a thirty-year career (and counting), Helen Crooks has worked client-side, vendor-side and for a regulator, with data running as the golden thread across every post she has held.
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Her early career working at Oracle from 1985 led to her being introduced to Edwina Dunn and Clive Humby in 1992 when they were starting dunnhumby from their kitchen table. Her job was to build out the data infrastructure that two years later would support the launch of Tesco’s Clubcard.

After running her own consultancy, she was approached by Virgin Media in 2006 as that brand was being created from a set of recently-merged organisation. There she set up the single customer view and strategic data architecture, before Tesco called her back in 2013 to be its group customer data director following its acquisition of dunnhumby.

The role of chief data officer at Lloyd’s of London followed in 2015 as it started on a digital transformation of the insurance sector. Most recently, she was CDO at Ofgem until 2022, helping to define data policy for the energy sector, before embarking on her current portfolio career as an advisor and non-executive director. 

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