Roberto Maranca, data excellence vice president, Schneider Electric

What has been your path to power?

Twenty-eight years ago, almost to the day, I walked out of Federico II Naples University with a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, a big achievement for someone with a more scholastic background of Latin, Greek and Philosophy. Sadly, I have never worked as an engineer, but still I managed to collect a few blue chips name for my professional crest: Nissan, Ford, General Electric, Lloyds Banking Group and now Schneider Electric.

For a couple of decades,  I have explored all the corners of the IT world from mainframes to business intelligence, from security to IT governance, but the call of data was growing around me stronger and so, one day six years ago, I decide to become a data professional. After a couple of chief data officer roles, firstly in GE and then in Lloyds Banking Group, my current data excellence role in SE is dedicated to designing, implementing and sustaining that data revolution that we all talk about. Under my remit I have metadata management, data quality, data privacy and protection, and data retention. More recently, I have initiated the experiment with knowledge management use cases.