Informatica Recognizes the Most Influential Chief Data Leaders of 2024

Today we are excited to announce the third annual Informatica CDO Awards.

The CDO Awards highlight data leaders across four key categories, celebrating leaders and innovators who are empowering their organizations to bring their data to life and preparing for a data-driven future with AI readiness.

The awards highlight today’s digital businesses whose leaders had a game-changing impact. Award recipients demonstrate that they are a critical force in improving their data culture, driving digital transformation that includes cloud modernization with AI-powered data management and achieving high-value business outcomes by delivering trusted data.

New for 2024, the “Generative AI Visionaries” category recognizes data leaders who are at the forefront of preparing their organizations for the AI era – including their data! This year’s awards class honors four recipients across four categories:

• Generative AI Visionaries – leaders making organizational progress toward enabling trusted data to solve today’s AI adoption challenges
• Data Strategy Gurus – leaders driving innovation within AI, data analytics, data quality, efficiency/automation, timely data delivery, utilization, compliance and risk management
• Literacy Luminaries – leaders reskilling and upskilling teams for the future of AI & machine learning, analytics and visualization, engineering, governance, architecture, and/or DataOps, and
• Performance Optimizers – leaders who are overcoming the challenges of managing increasing data producers and consumers, volume and variety of data and risk by delivering a full view of their data estate.

With this recognition, Informatica showcases CDOs, CDAOs and other top data leaders at the forefront of the latest transformational era that is disrupting data strategy with the adoption of AI.

Informatica surveyed 600 CDOs in its latest CDO Insights 2024: Charting a Course to AI Readiness survey, revealing that 45% have already implemented generative AI, with another 54% planning to do so. To address AI adoption challenges, data leaders are modernizing their data management strategy to remove roadblocks and empower their organizations with greater confidence in data to fuel AI initiatives.

Modern Chief Data Officers are at the intersection of data strategy and business vision – playing a critical role in leveraging AI to create value, along with advancing analytic insights, improved customer experience and other high-priority growth initiatives. Today, AI adoption is top of mind with the challenge of delivering trusted data to enable trusted AI. Informatica is proud to help data leaders on their journey to realize the impact of generative AI, resolve critical data challenges and minimize risks to AI adoption with its AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform.

2024 Informatica CDO Award Recipients

The 2024 CDO Award winners represent innovators across a spectrum of industries, within organizations of various sizes, across worldwide geographies:

Generative AI Visionaries – leaders making organizational progress toward enabling trusted data to solve today’s AI adoption challenges

• Alexander Borek, Head of Data & AI, Director of Data Analytics, Zalando
• Barbara Latulippe, Head of Enterprise Data, CDO, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
• Mal Wanstall, Vice President, Data, Cochlear

Data Strategy Gurus – leaders driving innovation within AI, data analytics, data quality, efficiency/automation, timely data delivery, utilization, compliance and risk management

• Caitlin Halferty, Global Chief Data Officer, Ericsson
• Jodi Morton, Global & US Chief Data Officer, KPMG LLC
• Seigo Sugimoto, Corporate Vice President and CDO, FUJIFILM

Literacy Luminaries – leaders reskilling and upskilling teams for the future of AI & machine learning, analytics and visualization, engineering, governance, architecture, and/or DataOps, and

• Angela Zhao, Platform Owner - Data Governance and Quality, Genesis Energy
• Julia Plant, CDO, Cabinet Office
• Wendy Batchelder, Chief Data Officer and SVP, Global Data Governance, Salesforce

Performance Optimizers – leaders who are overcoming the challenges of managing increasing data producers and consumers, volume and variety of data and risk by delivering a full view of their data estate.

• Kendle Sims, VP and Chief Data Officer, Penn State Health
• Ray Richardson, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Emirates
• Richard Lowe, Group Chief Data Officer, United Overseas Bank (UOB)

Inspired by these trailblazers? Become the next CDO Award Winner!

• Download our latest CDO Insights 2024: Charting a Course to AI Readiness survey to learn how data leaders are prioritizing data and AI adoption challenges and investments, along with other insights, as they get ready for AI, including their data.
• Join us at Informatica World (May 20-23, Las Vegas) to hear from today’s CDOs and other data leaders with more details about how AI, analytics, customer experience and more drive a greater need for data management.