by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Cigna has chosen Gina Papush to lead the firm’s enterprise data and analytics team as its Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer. BusinessWire reports: “Papush comes to Cigna with more than 22 years of experience in analytics strategy development and the use of data...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights, People
Networking site LinkedIn will allow academics to access its data for their studies but assures users that proper privacy protections will remain in place. The move is an expansion of previous collaborative effort that produced “path-breaking findings,” the...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Hilary Mason, GM of machine learning at Cloudera, believes that there should be a change in “the default way we think about the practice of data.” Mason believes that people will demand more from companies in terms of their privacy and the security of the personal...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Deals
Tempus raised $110 million in Series E financing by the end of August this year. This means that the Chicago-based data analytics company is now valued at $2 billion, vaulting it into the ranks of start-up “unicorns.” Founded by Eric Lefkofsky of Groupon fame, Tempus...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Data security and protection top the list of concerns for a group of 100 CDOs across Europe who were surveyed recently by Gresham. But the major point of agreement (80% of those surveyed) was that greater investments should be made in machine learning and data...
