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Anjali Gupta Reddi, Chief Data Officer, Dow Jones

Anjali Gupta Reddi, Chief Data Officer, Dow Jones

Anjali Gupta Reddi’s path to power

Anjali Gupta Reddi is the chief data officer at Dow Jones and is part of the executive leadership team. Reddi is a global executive with strategy and technology experience in managing the end-to-end lifecycle of a data business. 

She has over two decades of experience in the fast-paced world of data and analytics, leveraging artificial intelligence/machine learning, cloud and data engineering technologies. She has delivered customer centric AI/ML analytics products to drive revenue and operational efficiencies at global organizations.

Her expertise includes P&L, data engineering, data governance, data sourcing, client development and building high performance teams.

At Dow Jones, Reddi is leading the company towards improving the collection and usage of Dow Jones data and driving deeper insights to inform business strategy, fuel subscriber growth, advertising revenue and guide decision making. 

She is responsible for overseeing the overall data organization, owning the vision and cohesive strategy for data and analytics as well as further innovating the Dow Jones data platform.

Previously, Reddi served as global data governance officer for Citigroup’s commercial bank where she implemented the enterprise data and analytics strategy and revamped the data engineering platform for scalable delivery of client analytics in digital channels.

Prior to Citigroup, Reddi was the head of analytics strategy and governance at Dun & Bradstreet, where she oversaw execution of artificial intelligence strategy to create innovative analytics products.

What stage has your organization reached on its data maturity journey?

Overall, our organization has maturity in key areas, such as personalization, data science, and advanced analytics. For instance, our data capabilities are powering subscriptions and ad revenue growth across all of our products. We prioritize a customer-first approach, and continue to develop other areas of data, including regulatory data management. However, like any company dealing with leading-edge technology, we are still evolving.

Tell us about the data and analytics resources you are responsible for

We have a centralized team and we operate in a matrix structure with a hub and spoke model. We partner with our regional and functional data and analytics teams across the globe, to power their strategic goals and objectives. By embedding key members of the team within the business, we can truly understand their needs while maintaining continuity and alignment at the central level. Our global data and analytics team, that I lead, consists of a diverse team of talent, spread across multiple locations, with expertise across several capabilities including strategy, data engineering, AI/ML, visualization, portfolio management, capability building, data governance, and value delivery. We are a customer centric organization, creating multiple capabilities to drive revenue and profitability for the company.

What challenges do you see for data in the year ahead that will have an impact on your organization and on the industry as a whole?

I believe the industry has four key challenges around data: governance, accessibility to quality data, generating value from data investments and data culture.  

The pace at which data is being created today is ever increasing and technologies including generative AI to unlock the value of that data are advancing very rapidly. This combination can unlock many opportunities, however without the right governance and the quality of data, it can also create more challenges than opportunities. Ensuring data teams are prioritizing high ROI initiatives and communicating the same is critically important. Additionally driving a data-led culture to drive engagement and support for investment is a lot of hard work but foundational to success.  

Have you set out a vision for data? If so, what is it aiming for and does it embrace the whole organization or just the data function?

Our vision is to drive client experience, revenue and optimization of our processes – those are our objectives. We have also identified key levers that would help us achieve these objectives. This is the vision of our whole organization, not just that of the data team. One of our key values at Dow Jones is collaboration, and this vision only moves forward with collaboration across every organization. 

Anjali Gupta Reddi
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