Jonathan Beris, chief data officer, enterprise support, and chief of naval personnel, US Navy

The path here has been an incredible and varied one. I am a retired Naval Officer with modeling and simulation as my secondary expertise, so I started my data career with the Navy as a consumer and wrangler of data. I spent 21 years on active duty in a variety of leadership roles that provided analytic and intelligence support for military combat, counter narcotics, terrorism, humanitarian assistance and information operations.

After leaving the Navy I worked for a small firm, Centerpoint, as an executive leading cyber and data management contracts at various US defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. I recently returned to the Navy to support MyNavy HR in establishing a new CDO position and to form an enterprise information management (EIM) office. In my current role, I focus on all aspects of data leadership for the Navy’s human resources organization, which supports 400,000 active and reserve Sailors.