Gary Goldberg, chief data officer, trading and shipping, bp

Describe your career to date

After starting on a trading desk in the City of London, most of my career has been focused on delivering change and business transformation. In essence, my career has been spent on identifying opportunities for improvement and solving problems. Early on, I solved problems through developing trading applications. Latterly, I do this through designing and delivering our data strategy.

As I look back over my career, data has been a focus in most of my roles. Starting in technology, I was having to manage and improve data for our traders. I created and developed an end to end straight through processing data architecture that allowed our business to scale four-fold without needing additional headcount.

In my first role as CDO at Mizuho in 2015, I helped to deliver strong data foundations that supported business growth, while also allowing automation of regulatory obligations with minimal extra cost. Since joining BP in 2019, my focus has been on delivering our data strategy to enable business growth and creating new data-led innovation for new revenue streams.

I’ve learned through my career about the importance of building a strong team. I’m grateful for the incredible team that I have around me in BP and the support of our senior leadership for delivering a data led future.