My guest this week is Kulani Likotsi, the Head of Data Management and Data Governance at one of the four biggest banks in Africa. She’s had a rising career journey going from an analyst, to a Business Intelligence developer, to the data warehouse team, to the data...
My guest this week is Erick Webbe, Head of Data Science at bol.com. Bol.com is the biggest online retailer in northwestern Europe, serving about 12 million customers, as a general retailer similar to Amazon.com. Erick has a Master’s degree in Applied Physics. His...
I have a calendar reminder that tells me when I founded Big Data Institute. It just told me I founded the company eight years ago. The reminder is called “Independent Anniversary.” It’s the day I split off and executed my vision for an independent, big data consulting...
My guest this week is Brent Dykes, Founder and Chief Data Storyteller at Analytics Hero. Before he founded his own company, he was at Omniture, Adobe, and Domo. Analytics Hero is a consulting business based around data storytelling Data storytelling was a new concept...
My guest this week is Drew Smith, Vice President of Global Data and Analytics at Little Caesars Enterprises and Ilitch Companies. Little Caesars is a pizza franchise that is mainly in the United States. Illitch Companies owns the Detroit Tigers (baseball), Detroit Red...
In 2021 I had the pleasure to first get to know and speak with Zhamak Dheghani, Director of Emerging Technologies at ThoughtWorks, in season one of the Data Dream Team series. Zhamak is a software engineer and architect who is (in)famously known as the founder of the...