LEADERSHIP
Meet the people who support the global data & AI community
Leadership Team

Carl-Johan Nakamura
Co-Founder & CEO
Formerly CDO with ZEISS Group, first CDO with Oracle Cerner, CDO/CAO with Siemens Health Services and Syntelli. Data & AI executive with IBM. Technology startup entrepreneur with Synestesi Technologies, Medikin Healthcare, CampusRN, Sparknotes and GAB (3 exits); Informatica, Gartner, CDOIQ, Penn State, and Federal Street Capital advisory roles

Janak Joshi
Co-Founder & CDO
CDO/CTO State of Massachusetts, Formerly CTO with LifeImage (now Intelerad), CIO with CVS Caremark, Global Head of RWE Product with Deloitte, Google GCP advisor, Walmart CDO strategist, and currently on 3 boards - Brandeis, MassVentures and Convergence. Shaolin Black belt holder, US Air Force 1st Lit and furiously curious global adventurer

Steve Lok
CTO & Chief Scientist
Formerly Bain & Company Expert Associate Partner, Director with MediaMonks, Global Head of Martech with The Economist, Director of Program Management Office with Scholastic and Co-founder & CTO with Medikin Healthcare. Recently recognised with two Cannes Lions Awards, DMA Grand Prix (London) and dozens other awards

Verena Fritzenwenger
Vice President, Executive Search
Verena has over a decade of experience in talent acquisition and leadership consulting, specializing in senior placements in health IT. Former CEO of PEOPLE Consulting, an International Executive Search Consultant at Guided Solutions and Project Manager with FC Business Intelligence Ltd. BA in Philosophy, King’s College London
Executive Advisory Board

Dr John Glaser
Senior Executive Advisor
Ex-CEO of Siemens Health and CIO with Partners Healthcare and adjunct professor at Harvard Medical School, HL7 Co-Chair & Forbes Health Board Member

John Bottega
President, EDM Council
Ex-Chief Data & Analytics Officer with JP Morgan, Federal Reserve, Bank of America, and CitiBank, and VP Data Management at Credit Suisse

Dr Alberto-Giovanni Busetto
CAIO, HealthAI
Ex-CDO/CAIO with Merck Healthcare and Adecco Group. WEF Council Member & OECD expert on AI. PhD with ETH Zurich then Faculty at UCSB in AI

Micheline Casey
CDAO, Mars Petcare
Previously CDO/CAO with Siemens Energy. Ex-CDO Ford Motor, Maersk A/S and Federal Reserve Bank, Fortune Technology Council Member

Dr Christian Müller
Independent Board Advisor
Formerly Group Chief Financial Officer with ZEISS Group, CFO with ZEISS Medical Technologies and a senior CFO DACH advisor

Eloy Sasot
Chief Data Officer, ASML
Formerly CDO with Richemont and Sodexo, VP Data Science at News Corp and Global Pricing Manager at American Express, Top 100 4x DataIQ

Christian Börjesson
President, Danaher Beckman Coulter
President Beckman Coulter Microbiology (Danaher). Ex-SVP Strategy at Cepheid (Danaher), Director with BD and bioMerieux, and EF Education

Lalit Thakur
CDO, Nissan Motors
Formerly SVP & Chief Data Officer with ATD, Novant Health and Solera Holdings. Executive with Premier Inc as IT and MDM senior director

Hiroshi Omata
Founder Chairman, SURYA Consulting
Former SVP & Chief Digital Officer ENEOS, Group CIO & CMO at SOMPO, CDO at IBM Japan and CCO at Dentsu Digital Japan
Technology Advisory Board

Johan Vallin
Head Quantum & Blockchain, Ericsson
Ex-Global Head of AI with Ericsson, Telia, Electrolux and CTO with HP Autonomy Sweden. Chair & Board member at Söderberg Wealth Partners

Peggy TsAI
Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase
Ex-CDO at BigID. Formerly VP Data & Analytics at Morgan Stanley, AIG Data Leader, Top 100 Innovator Data & Analytics, and Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University

Vikram Anand
Head, Data & AI, Carenostics
Formerly Lead Data Architect with Amazon Alexa Health, Chief Solutions Architect with Siemens Health Services, and Tech & AI Lead consultant with Comcast

Dr Satyajeet Raje
Fmr CDO/CTO, AnthologyAI
Ex-Chief Ontologist and CTO lead for Data Governance & Data Science with IBM. Industry expert in data fabric and knowledge graphs. PhD in Computer Science, Ohio State

Milind Kamkolkar
Venture Partner, RA Capital
Formerly firstly appointed CDO with Sanofi, VP of Data Science at Novartis and CDO at Cellarity, Founder and CEO of Stealth Mode, Paradigm and Turbine

Errol Norlum
AI & Tech Advisor, The AI Framework
Ex-CAIO with H&M Group, Director at Teradata, Lead data scientist with Vodafone and Nordea. Glow, Indivd, Speqta and ValYou Connect advisory roles