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Media And Analyst Coverage
CTOs Evolve in Shake Up of Digital Leadership in the C-Suite
The Importance of Data across Government in a Post Covid-19 World – Government & civil service news
What CDOs can teach CIOs about how to reach the CEO role
The man who founded CDO Club is ready to scale his community of digital leaders
Are Chief Digital Officers the Next Crop of CEO Candidates?
Press Releases
Bernardo Rodriguez, Chief Digital and Technology Officer at J.D. Power, Named “U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2021” by CDO Club
CDO Club CEO David Mathison Names “All 2020 U.S. CDOs” as U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year for 2020
Sol Rashidi, Chief Analytics Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Named US 2021 “Chief Analytics Officer of the Year” by CDO Club
Eileen Vidrine, Chief Data Officer at United States Department of the Air Force, Named U.S. 2021 “Chief Data Officer of the Year” by CDO Club
Mona Siddiqui, Senior Vice President at Humana, Named US Chief Data Officer of the Year 2020 by CDO Club
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Video Highlight Sydney 2016
Video Highlight NYC 2016
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David Mathison Bio and Head Shots
David Mathison is the CEO and founder of the CDO Club and CDO Summit.
Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief Digital and Data Officers, and has been quoted recently by American Banker, CIO.com, CIO Journal, CIO-UK, CMS Wire, CNBC, Computer Weekly, Computerworld, Deloitte, Diginomica, EdTech Magazine, eMarketer, FedTech Magazine, FierceCIO, Financial Times, Forbes, Guardian, Huffington Post, I-CIO, McKinsey & Company, Media Post, MIT Sloan Management Review, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, and ZDNet, among others.
He was previously founder and Managing Director of the Digital Media practice at Chadick Ellig, a premiere executive search consultancy named by Business Week as “one of the world’s most influential headhunters”.
Mathison’s book, BE THE MEDIA, was featured by the AP in the NY Times after he pre-sold over 5,000 copies in 11 days via his web site, Twitter, and Facebook.
He has given keynote presentations everywhere from Columbia University to the United Nations (3 times in 2010), from Austin, TX (SXSW) and Amsterdam, Holland to Zagreb, Croatia.
From 1999-2001 he was founder and CEO of the Kinecta Corporation where he raised $30 million in under 2 years. Kinecta was acquired and is now part of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL).
From 1994-1999 Mathison was Vice President with Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest news agency, where he pioneered online content syndication.
Mathison earned his Masters degree from Columbia University in 1995