David Mathison is the CEO and founder of the world’s 1st-ever CAIO Summit (2023), the 1st-ever Chief Digital Officer Summit (2013), and the CDO Club (2012).

Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief AI Officers, Chief Data and Analytics Officers, and Chief Digital Officers. In 2011 he created the first-ever community for CDOs on LinkedIn; the first Talent Map, Summit, and Community for Chief Digital Officers in 2013; and the world’s first-ever Chief AI Officer Talent Map and Chief AI Officer Summit in 2023.

He has been quoted by American Banker, CIO.com, CIO Journal, CIO-UK, CMS Wire, CNBC, Computer Weekly, Computerworld, Deloitte, Diginomica, eMarketer, FedTech Magazine, FierceCIO, Financial Times, Forbes, Guardian, Huffington Post, I-CIO, McKinsey & Company, Media Post, MIT Sloan Management Review, VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, and ZDNet, among others.

Yakov Bart is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Thomas E. Moore Faculty Fellow at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University. He is the Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the DATA (Digital, Analytics, Technology, Automation) Initiative and a core faculty member at the Institute for Experiential AI and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University.

Yakov has done research, teaching, and consulting throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. His research examining marketing implications of new digital technologies and business models has been funded with multiple research awards and grants, presented at numerous academic and industry conferences around the globe, and published in leading marketing and management journals, Yakov has co-authored a popular digital textbook Social Media Marketing: Principles and Strategies, an interdisciplinary volume Reengineering the Sharing Economy: Design, Policy, and Regulation, published by Cambridge University Press, and a playbook on digital transformation titled Break the Wall: Why and How to Democratize Digital in Your Business, published as part of an American Marketing Association book series.

Yakov is a frequent speaker at international business summits and industry events, including Teradata Analytics Universe and World Knowledge Forum. He worked with multiple industry leaders such as American Express, General Motors, Google, Havas, Intel, Kantar Media, LVMH, Nielsen, NPD Group, and WPP, among others, and has been an expert witness. Yakov holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, and S.M. in Operations Research from MIT. Before joining Northeastern University, Yakov was a marketing professor at INSEAD and visiting faculty at the Wharton School.

Bob Howland is our first ever Chief Digital Officer. This new role reflects the growing importance that digital has for our customers and our company.  Bob has been a pioneer in helping companies adopt ecommerce, engage customers online, and build digital business models. Bob will leverage his leadership, insights and expertise to implement Dawn Food’s long term digital strategy and overall business model so that we can continue our tradition of innovation to support our customers around the world.

Before joining Dawn, Bob was Executive Vice President and General Manager at Blueport Commerce, the leading SaaS Cloud ecommerce platform for furniture, used by the largest retailers in North America to run their omnichannel business. Prior to Blueport, Bob has held executive management positions at various companies with the focus on business transformation and change management.  Bob is married and has 2 daughters.

Rajesh Anandan is an impact entrepreneur and growth architect. He is the co-founder and CEO of Ultranauts, an award winning quality engineering firm with employees in 30 states, 75% of whom are on the autism spectrum. Ultranauts has been named a FastCompany World Changing Idea, MIT SOLVE Challenge Winner and Interbrand Breakthrough Brand. Rajesh began his career at Microsoft, worked at Bain & Company, launched Unicef Ventures, and lectures at MIT. Rajesh has a BSc and MEng in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT with concentrations in AI, Systems Dynamics and Economics.

Shahidul Mannan is the chief data officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), extending and overseeing the ministry’s vision and strategies for data-driven digital transformation. He is accountable for the ministry’s enterprise data platform, as well as data governance, products, innovation and commercialization.

Before joining BSMH, Mannan was head of data engineering and innovation at Mass General Brigham where he led the next generation data analytics architecture and platforms for MGB (formerly Partner’s Healthcare) digitization and analytics innovation. Prior to that, at Dell EMC, he served as global head of big data and analytics – leading all data assets and building next generation data lake and AI-driven analytics across the enterprise. At Altisource, he served as vice president of technology, chief data officer and was responsible for all data management, big data, business intelligence and advanced analytics, developing fintech analytics products and services.

Mannan earned a Bachelor of Science, Engineering degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and a Master of Business  Administration, Finance and Investments degree from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York City.

Jason Johnson is Chief Data and Analytics Officer and SVP of Informatics and Analytics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where he has served for 7 years. Prior to joining Dana-Farber, Jason was Head of R&D at PatientsLikeMe, a patient-focused research company in Cambridge, MA.  He came to that position after 16 years in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in various leadership roles in informatics, IT, bioinformatics, and genomics.  Jason has undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Physics from Stanford University, a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard University.

Randy Bean has been an advisor to Fortune 1000 organizations on data leadership for 3+ decades. He is the author of the bestselling Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI, and a current contributor to Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Randy serves as Innovation Fellow, Data Strategy for Paris-based consultancy Wavestone.

With eight patents issued and awards that include “Forbes AI Maverick of the 21st century,” “50 Most Powerful Women in Tech,” “Top 20 CDOs”, “Top 100 in AI’, ‘NASDAQ Top 10 Women in Data & Applied AI’, and “Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics”, Sol has served as the former CDO & CAO for Fortune 100 companies such as Estee Lauder, Sony Music, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Royal Caribbean. Sol studied Disruptive Strategies at Harvard, did her MBA at Pepperdine, and studied Chemistry as an undergrad at UC Berkeley and is a published author. Sol has done over 50+ keynotes, 100+ panels, and has participated in a number of podcasts in her career.

Bruno is a seasoned operator who specializes in high-growth SaaS and enterprise software. He has led product, marketing, sales and business development teams across all phases of growth, from startups to mid-size companies and Fortune 10 software leaders. Bruno brings hands-on operational hypergrowth experience and technology depth in the fields of data & analytics, machine learning and AI.

Prior to joining CapitalG, Bruno ran outbound product management at Google Cloud, where he helped grow the data and analytics business by 5X. In less than three years, Google Cloud became a top five enterprise software company adopted by 60% of the world’s largest organizations with 100,000 partners and 300% growth in large deals ($250M+).

Before working at Google Cloud, Bruno helped launch and scale four startups: Alpine Data Labs (acquired by Tibco), AppStream (acquired by Symantec), SiSense (acquired Periscope Data), and AtScale.

Bruno also served as Group VP of AI & Data Analytics at Oracle where he performed one of the fastest turnarounds in the space. He helped Microsoft grow their data analytics business to $1 billion in revenue and helped scale BusinessObjects (now SAP) through the Crystal Decisions and Acta acquisitions.

Bruno was educated in France, England, and Germany. An avid soccer player, he enjoys spending time with his active kids and wife. He enjoys standup comedy, live music, and good food–particularly when it’s related to his native country of France!

Mojgan Lefebvre is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology & Operations Officer for Travelers.
She is responsible for the company’s technology, data, analytics, cyber security and business operations
including business resiliency, customer service, premium audit and billing across the enterprise.

Before joining Travelers in 2018, Lefebvre served as global Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Liberty
Mutual’s commercial business and held leadership positions of increasing responsibility across a variety
of other industries, including medical device company bioMérieux and strategy consulting firm Bain &
Company.

Lefebvre founded Travelers’ internal professional group EmpowHER+, focused on enhancing the careers
of women in technology and operations with the help of allies, and is the executive sponsor of the
company’s partnerships with nonprofits Girls Who Code and AnitaB.org. She was also one of the
founding members of T200, a tech peer community with a mission to foster, celebrate and advance
women’s leadership in tech. 

She is a member of Unum Group’s Board of Directors, Georgia Institute of Technology President’s
Advisory Board and Boston University Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science
& Engineering Industry Advisory Board.

Lefebvre is one of Forbes’ CIO Next 50 Innovative Technology Leaders, a CIO Class of 2022 Hall of Fame
inductee and a member of the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.
She was a 2017 Digital Insurance Women in Insurance Leadership Award recipient and a finalist for the
2020 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology and her
MBA from Harvard Business School. Lefebvre has lived and worked in many countries and speaks French
and Farsi fluently. She lives in Boston with her husband and two college-aged daughters.

Eoin Roche has worked in the software vendor space for the financial services industry for almost 20 years. He is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Product Adoption at KX. At the heart of KX
technology is kdb, the world’s fastest database for vector native, time series and real-time analytics. Kdb is used extensively in financial services to process large volumes of market, order, and execution data at speed.

In his role, Eoin manages a team that works closely with customers to ensure they are maximizing their ROI on KX products, supporting them through solution architecture, onboarding, implementation, and ongoing enablement. Eoin joined KX in 2010 and has previously held roles at the company in Engineering, Product Management, and Presales. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin.

Koen Pauwels is Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University and founding General Director of its Digital, Analytics, Technology and Automation (DATA) Initiative. Koen’s European positions include Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, and Visiting Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

For 4.5 years, he was Principal Research Scientist at Amazon Ads, with brand building and budget allocation recommendations reaching hundreds of thousands of advertisers. Koen received his Ph.D. from UCLA, where he was chosen Top 100 Inspirational Alumnus. After getting tenure at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, he helped build the startup Ozyegin University in Istanbul. Named a worldwide top 2% scientist, and ‘The Best Marketing Academic on the Planet,’ Koen published over 100 articles on marketing effectiveness. This research was awarded by managers (Google, WPP and Syntec), academics (Dell, Davidson, and Varadarajan) and both (Gary Lilien ISMS-MSI-EMAC Practice Prize).

Koen is the incoming editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Research in Marketing, and Associate Editor for the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, and the Journal of Interactive Marketing. His books include ‘Modeling Markets’; and ‘Advanced Methods for Modeling Markets’; for analysts, and ‘Break the Wall: Why and How to Democratize Digital in Your Business’, and ‘It’s Not the Size of the Data – It’s How You Use It: Smarter Marketing with Analytics and Dashboards` for managers.

Kwong Chan is an Academic Specialist in Marketing at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and serves as the Executive Director of the DATA Initiative at Northeastern University. He holds a PhD from Michigan State University.

Prior to joining Northeastern University, Kwong was an Associate Director in the Telecommunication and Technology Industry Practice Group at Nielsen, and a marketing professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 

An award-winning teacher for his innovative methods, Kwong has helped pioneer the development of analytics education at D’Amore-McKim. His research spans innovation and analytics and he has published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Sports Management, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and the Journal of Advertising.

Kwong has worked with a range of companies including Samsung, Goodyear, VISA, Nike, ASUS, ACER, and General Motors.