Navigating a CDO role across geographies, organizations and cultures

Althea Davis served as a Chief Data Officer (CDO) across at least 5 different organizations and multiple cultures. After shuttling between Canada and the United States, Althea studied in Germany on a Fulbright scholarship. From there, she settled down in the Netherlands for 30 years or so climbing up the ranks to become a CDO at multiple organizations. Interestingly, Althea served the CDO role not as an employee but as an external consultant. The episode covers Althea’s opinions on the role of CDO and her experience across multiple geographies and cultures.

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The primary goal of Data Transformers podcast is to accelerate digital transformation by bridging the gap between business goals and technology initiatives using Data as glue. Visit https://datatransformerspodcast.com for more details. With the rapid advancement of technologies such as AI, ML, IOT, Cloud computing et al and the explosion of data that these technologies rely on, it is absolutely important to manage the data in intelligent and efficient ways. We’d like to enable that by interviewing the transformers in the industry who are leading the way in digital transformation. We also would like to bring our perspectives, latest trends and most valuable resources to you so you could be a data transformer in your organization.