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...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Questions have been raised over the selection of former Cambridge Analytica CDO, Dr. Alex Tayler, as a speaker at the upcoming AI for Good conference in Geneva Switzerland. The conference is later this May. The core of the controversy is Tayler’s association...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, People
Linda Avery, CDO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has been chosen as CDO of the Year by the CDO Club. Prior to working at the Federal Reserve, Linda was a Managing Director of Technology at Goldman Sachs, where her career spanned twenty years. Previous U.S....
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 16, 2019 | Data Talent and Recruiting, People
Texas-based data.world announced that Lisa Novak is joining the company as Head of Talent. Aside from hiring and human resources functions, Novak will be responsible for expanding teams across the data.world organization during its growth phase. Here is an excerpt...
