Adam Nagus, global chief data officer, Pearson

Describe your career to date

I’ve spent 20 years being part of some of the largest digital transformation programmes across all major vertical industries. I am known as one of the founders and catalyst of the visual analytics movement which focuses on transforming how BI and MI is created and adopted across enterprises and private equity. My visual analytics practice absorbed business intelligence to form a 16,000-person organisation called Visual Intelligence. 

After 13 years growing Accenture’s digital capabilities, I founded my own consultancy, Digimasters, focusing on digital and data transformation. As CEO, I worked hard being a niche player, supporting and mentoring organisations with first generation CDOs. We also focused on how innovation can make a difference when it is scaled correctly and building new digital products to change culture internally as well as new customer services. 

I was invited to start a new digital delivery practice in FTI Consulting and Digimasters went through an ‘aquhire’ where the Digimasters team joined FTI Consulting to grow the new digital science practice. 

Within FTI I was the MD for digital delivery owning BI, visualisation, data engineering, solution architecture and support services. My proudest achievements where winning Qlik and Tableau Partner of the year five years in a row and growing the largest visual analytics capability in the world, developing a new methodology for carving out organisations for PE clients, creating a new platform for strategic workforce planning, called TOBI (after my dog Toby), and being invited to join Pearson as global chief data officer.