Payal Jain, managing director, JCURV

What has been your path to power?

My career has been a zig-zag between analytical and commercial roles - data has always been my core. It has been hugely beneficial to understand different perspectives in order to deliver best what’s needed in these critical roles for an organisation. Over the years, I have enjoyed the opportunity to work internationally. You soon realise that data is in fact one language - it’s a story of human behaviour. I love interpreting this in defining actionable strategy for organisations.

I made a big decision in 2018 to leave banking and focus on having a broader impact on organisations and started consulting by joining JCURV as managing director. I’m leading its Datagility proposition, which is encouraging organisations to change radically the way they work with data; “making big data small” to deliver at speed by focusing on business outcomes and working collaboratively across the organisation for these to be achieved. I am also chair of Women in Data.