Sebastian DouglasChief Data Officer

Areas of practice

Where I bring data strategy to bear.

The domains in which I have carried accountability, and the judgement I bring to each.

  1. 01Data strategy
  2. 02Data governance
  3. 03Analytics adoption
  4. 04Responsible AI

How I lead

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.

At scale

The responsibility, in figures

1

Trusted source of truth

Replacing 37 conflicting reports

₹410 Cr

Value from analytics

Verified by finance, year three

220

Models governed

Under one responsible-AI framework

9 days → 4 hrs

Time to decision data

For the executive committee

In practice

Decisions and their consequences

Case 01

Enterprise data ownership

Business functions were maintaining different versions of a critical performance measure. I worked with the accountable owners to define the measure, document its source and agree how exceptions would be handled. The programme treated data ownership as an operating responsibility and gave users a visible path for resolving quality issues.

Case 02

Decision intelligence

An analytics initiative had produced technically sound outputs that were not part of the management routine. We redesigned the work around a specific decision, involved the decision owners in evaluation and made limitations visible in the way findings were presented. Adoption became part of the delivery definition.

Case 03

Responsible AI adoption

Teams wanted to move AI experiments into business use without a consistent review process. I convened product, data, risk and operating leaders to agree evaluation criteria, human accountability and monitoring responsibilities. The approach allowed use cases to be assessed on their actual purpose and exposure rather than on enthusiasm for the technology.