Masato KobayashiChief Data Officer

Masato Kobayashi

Chief Data Officer Japan · Global perspective

Making trusted data useful in consequential decisions.

Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations

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Appointments & responsibility

  1. 2020 — Present01

    Chief Data Officer

    Aldermoor Group

    Scope & contribution

    Leading enterprise data strategy, governance and analytics adoption. Working with business owners and risk colleagues to connect trustworthy information and responsible AI with defined decision needs.

  2. 2016 — 202002

    Vice President, Data & Analytics

    Fairhaven Holdings

    Scope & contribution

    Built data and analytics capability around priority business uses. Developed operating practices for data ownership, quality evaluation and the communication of analytical limitations.

  3. 2013 — 201803

    Head of Analytics

    Westmoor Housing Finance

    Scope & contribution

    Built the credit analytics capability that reduced losses while widening access to first-time borrowers.

  4. 2008 — 201304

    Lead Data Scientist

    Lumen Payments

    Scope & contribution

    Designed fraud models at national scale, and learned that a model is only as good as the decision it improves.

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

At the board table

Westmoor Housing Finance

Independent Director

Risk · Data & AI Ethics (Chair)

The Responsible Data Institute

Advisory Board Member

Standards Council

Trusted 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.

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
Made our data trustworthy enough to bet decisions on — and honest about where it was not.
Hannah ClarkeChief Executive, Westmoor Housing Finance
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An invitation

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