by CDO Review Staff | Jun 12, 2019 | CDO Insider
Chief information Officer Suzanne Kent of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revealed the thrust of the federal data strategy and released a draft action plan that is designed to “establish a firm basis of tools, processes, and capacities to leverage data...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 12, 2019 | CDO Insider
Larger, more complex data sets require greater computing power to wring out the insights hidden within. This is why Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is buying out supercomputer maker Cray for $1.3 billion as it battles rival IBM in the market for data analytics and...
by CDO Review Staff | May 29, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
Suresh Kumar, who has worked at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, has been picked by retail giant Walmart as its new CDO/CTO reporting directly to Walmart CEO Doug McMillon. Sarah Perez filed this report on Kumar for TechCrunch: Kumar most recently worked at Google,...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Alation, a prominent enterprise data catalog provider, has appointed company co-founder Aaron Kalb as its first CDO. The company has also tapped Stephanie McReynolds as senior VP of marketing. Nick Ismail filed this report in Information Age: As CDO, Kalb will lead a...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Alan Jacobson, former director of global analytics at Ford Motor, has been hired as the newest Chief Data and Analytics Officer of Alteryx. Jacobson will be asked to lead Alteryx’s data initiatives and to preside over the company’s planned digital transformation. Here...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Mehmet Goker, a former VP of Data for SurveyMonkey, has joined freight forwarder Flexport as its new CDO. Here is an excerpt form a post published on MRWeb: San Francisco-based Flexport moves freight globally by air, ocean, rail and truck, and its purpose built...
