Chief Data Officer Australia · Global perspective
Patrick Montgomery
Making trusted data useful in consequential decisions.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
A conversation, to beginTrusted data becomes valuable when people can use it responsibly in a decision. I connect ownership, quality and analytical capability to business purpose, with explicit limitations and human accountability for consequential uses.
Patrick Montgomery
- Trusted source of truth
- 1
- Replacing 37 conflicting reports
- Value from analytics
- ₹410 Cr
- Verified by finance, year three
- Models governed
- 220
- Under one responsible-AI framework
- Time to decision data
- 9 days → 4 hrs
- For the executive committee
Leadership, seen by others.
Made our data trustworthy enough to bet decisions on — and honest about where it was not.
The clearest voice on responsible AI in our boardroom.
Selected leadership work
Enterprise data ownership
Business functions were maintaining different versions of a critical performance measure.
Discover the work ↗The leadership record
Trusted with consequential decisions.
Recognition
- Data Leader of the YearThe Applied AI Forum · 2024
- Responsible AI AwardThe Technology Leaders Review · 2023
In conversation
- “Governing 220 models without slowing the business”The Applied AI Forum · 2025
- “The board's role in responsible AI”The Boardroom Review · 2024
- “Episode 120 — Data people can trust”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
Formation
- PhD, StatisticsEastgate Institute of Technology · 2007
- M.Sc, MathematicsKingsgate University · 2002
An invitation
The most consequential work begins with a conversation.
For board, advisory and leadership conversations where data strategy matters.
- Board appointments
- Advisory roles
- Speaking invitations
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