Chief Data Officer Japan · Global perspective
The person behind
the decisions.
I help enterprises turn data into a trusted part of how decisions are made. My work spans ownership, quality, analytics and responsible AI, with a focus on the business practices that allow technical capability to be used well.
I begin with a decision and the people accountable for it. Understanding their information needs helps identify which data matters, where its limitations sit and who must own its quality. Governance should make those responsibilities workable rather than add a parallel layer of administration.
I bring business owners, technologists and risk colleagues into the same conversation. A useful data strategy is one the organisation can explain, operate and challenge when circumstances change.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Languages / English · Japanese
A leadership conviction
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.
- 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
Career chapters
2020 — Present 01
Chief Data Officer
Aldermoor Group
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.
2016 — 2020 02
Vice President, Data & Analytics
Fairhaven Holdings
Built data and analytics capability around priority business uses. Developed operating practices for data ownership, quality evaluation and the communication of analytical limitations.
2013 — 2018 03
Head of Analytics
Westmoor Housing Finance
Built the credit analytics capability that reduced losses while widening access to first-time borrowers.
2008 — 2013 04
Lead Data Scientist
Lumen Payments
Designed fraud models at national scale, and learned that a model is only as good as the decision it improves.
Board & advisory record
Current appointments
Westmoor Housing Finance
Independent Director
Risk · Data & AI Ethics (Chair)
2023 — Present
The Responsible Data Institute
Advisory Board Member
Standards Council
2020 — Present
Education & credentials
- PhD, Statistics
- Eastgate Institute of Technology · 2007
- M.Sc, Mathematics
- Kingsgate University · 2002
Recognition
Data Leader of the Year
The Applied AI Forum · 2024
Responsible AI Award
The Technology Leaders Review · 2023
Books & papers
Decisions Worth Trusting: Data Leadership for the AI Era
Ashgrove Press · 2025
In conversation
The Applied AI Forum / 2025
Governing 220 models without slowing the business
The Boardroom Review / 2024
The board's role in responsible AI
The Leadership Ledger podcast / 2023
Episode 120 — Data people can trust
Perspectives from colleagues
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.