This is a profile from the 2022 version of the DataIQ 100.
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Davin Crowley-Sweet, chief data officer, National Highways
What has been your path to power?
I actually started my career a professional guitarist in a heavy metal band. A shady manager and some angry associates resulted in us losing our record deal and leaving me clueless on what to do next. A friend of mine offered me a home on the railway and I worked my way up through the sector, from helping migrate data as part of an insourcing initiative to being the professional head of GB Mainline’s railway system-related data. In 2017, I swapped rail for roads and became Highways England’s first chief data officer at the beginning of the largest investments in roads in a generation.
What impact has the pandemic had on the role of data in your company/organisation?
Our purpose is to connect the country and how do we do that if we are not as connected amongst ourselves as we could be. Here is where data really shows itself. Data is more than just 1s and 0s, it is our means of staying connected with each other. And in a world of lockdowns, we’ve upped our ante in making sure data flowed freely to keep us connected so we could connect the country.
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