Twenty years up the mountain.
The team has built and led enterprise data and AI organizations across financial services, healthcare, professional services, and government — with senior roles at Bank of America, LexisNexis, and Big 4 consulting.
They are strategic architects and hands-on builders — defining enterprise data and AI strategy, standing up governance at scale, leading teams of 50 to 200+ professionals, and delivering measurable business value through advanced analytics, AI, and finding the data gold!
Clients served include Amtrak, GSK, Wells Fargo, Time Warner Cable, Novelis, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, and others.
A field-tested playbook.
The Chief Data Officer Cookbook
"Reinventing Yourself to Create Data People Love"
The CDO Cookbook synthesizes 20+ years of practice into a working playbook for the modern Chief Data & AI Officer — including seven proprietary frameworks refined and deployed across client portfolios.
- Data Plating Framework A delivery framework ensuring data reaches stakeholders with the right Timeliness, Relevance, Trustworthiness, and Usability — turning raw numbers into strategic narratives.
- Data Trust Indicator A live quality badge embedded in dashboards combining freshness, accuracy, and consistency — the antidote to shadow spreadsheets and competing versions of truth.
- KPI Recipe Scorecard A scorecard system linking leading and lagging metrics to organizational strategy — making KPIs change behavior, not just reporting.
- Franchise Model of Data Excellence A scaling model balancing strong central governance with local business unit autonomy — enterprise consistency without rigid central control.
- STEALTH Debrief A structured agile debrief methodology adapted from military aviation — applied to data delivery sprints for root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- One-Page Strategic Plan (OPSP) A lean, one-page distillation of data and AI strategy — replacing binder-ware with an executable roadmap that aligns vision, goals, KPIs, and priorities on a single page.
- Data Brigade System A modular governance framework for enterprise data teams — mapping CDO, domain leads, stewards, analysts, and engineers into a clear hierarchy with defined accountability at every level.
Why Data GOLD exists.
The market is full of data and AI consultants who deliver decks, not solutions. Data GOLD was built for the leader who needs a peer in the room — someone who's done the work, owns the frameworks, and stays through delivery.
"Data and AI go together. Data is the foundation; AI is the application. Anyone can rent the engine — your edge comes from owning the fuel."
— The CDO Cookbook, 2025