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The Rise And Rise Of The Chief Data Officer

August 23, 2017: By Sindhuja Balaji: “If you’d asked a corporate employee a decade ago about hiring a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for his company’s success, he would have laughed it off. Today, a CDO is one of the most significant drivers of growth in companies, especially the incumbent ones. In an exclusi. . . "
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Chief Digital Officer Spreading In Japan To Leaders Of Digital Change

August 4, 2017: By Nihon Keizai Shimbun: “The Chief Digital Officer (CDO), the leader responsible for in-house digital strategy, has expanded into Japan. The US-based CDO Club, founded in 2011, was established in Japan in May 2017, led by Mr. Jun Kamo. . . "
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Qualifications For Chief Digital Officers In Japan

August 1, 2017: By Akutsu Yoshikazu for TechRepublic: “At an event centered on “Chief Digital Officers” (CDO), the inaugural Japan CDO Summit included a panel populated by CDOs to discuss the digitization of enterprises, and the talent required to enact changes. . . "
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Inderpal Bhandari Earns CDO Of The Year Honors

August 1, 2017: By Bob Violino for Information Management: “The role of the chief data officer has evolved from its beginnings as the person in charge of the data warehouse to a C-level executive responsible for driving enterprise transformation. Leading this effort at IBM is the company’s first global CDO,. . . "
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One On One With The CDO Of The Year

July 31, 2017: By Alex Woodie for Datanami: “What does it mean to be a chief data officer in 2017? We asked Dr. Inderpal Bhandari, who was just named the United States CDO of the Year last week by the CDO Club, for insight into the job. . . "
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Press Releases

Government Digital Service’s Executive Director Mike Bracken Named First U.K. Chief Digital Officer Of The Year 2014 By CDO Club

NEW YORK and LONDON, Oct 29, 2014: The Award was presented by CDO Club founder David Mathison, who remarked: “Mike is an inspiration to all digital leaders tasked with transformation, regardless of sector. The work by his team at GDS provides a case study for the rest of the world on how to transf. . . "
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Inaugural Chief Digital Officer Summit Arrives In The UK

LONDON and NEW YORK, Oct 24, 2014: By 2015, 25% of all organizations will have a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) according to a forecast by IT research and advisory firm Gartner. Designed to educate organizations about how to embrace the digital journey and better understand how to increase competencies. . . "
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Number Of Chief Digital Officers Doubled In 2013; Seven CDOs Became CEO And Four CDOs Became Board Directors, According To The CDO Club

NEW YORK and OXFORD England, May 12, 2014: According to new data from the CDO Club, the number of Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) doubled from 2012 to nearly 500 in 2013, continuing a trend of doubling each year. The CDO Club conservatively forecasts that the number of global CDOs will double again in. . . "
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New York State’s Chief Digital Officer Rachel S. Haot Named Chief Digital Officer Of The Year 2014 By CDO Club

NEW YORK, May 6, 2014: Rachel S. Haot, Chief Digital Officer and Deputy Secretary for Technology at the State of New York, was named the 2014 Chief Digital Officer of the Year by the CDO Club. The award was given to Haot after her keynote presentation, “Improving Government and Public Engagement t. . . "
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Ken Kragen To Be Featured Speaker At 2014 Chief Digital Officer Summit

NEW YORK, April 14, 2014: Ken Kragen, renowned for his unique and creative endeavors that have far transcended the music and entertainment industries in which he has had many incredibly successful years, will discuss “Accomplishing the Impossible” as the featured speaker on April 22 at the 2014 . . . "
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Photo and Video Summary

Welcome
Riley McDonough: Thomson Reuters
Morning Keynote: Vivian Schiller
Morning Keynote: Vivian Schiller
Chief Digital Officer Talent Map 2013
David Mathison: Chief Digital Officer Summit
Chief Digital Officer Talent Map 2013
Participant
Publishing Panel
Joe Bilman and Ellie Hirschhorn
Fred Santarpia: Conde Nast Entertainment
David Kang and Joe Bilman
David Kang: Wenner Media
Michael Smith: Forbes.com and Forbes Media
Participants
Broadcasting Panel
Daniel Heaf: BBC Worldwide
Broadcasting Panel
Albert Cheng and Jason Tafler
Albert Cheng and Jason Tafler
Broadcasting Panel
Broadcasting Panel
Participants
Education Panel
Sree Sreenivasan: MET Museum
Sree Sreenivasan: MET Museum
Perry Hewitt: Harvard University
Perry Hewitt and Bernardo Rodriguez
Bernardo Rodriguez: Kaplan Test Prep
Education Panel
Participants
NonProfit Panel
Elizabeth Scott: Lincoln Center
Elizabeth Scott and Christine Montgomery
Christine Montgomery and Tom Hjelm
Tom Hjelm: New York Public Radio
NonProfit Panel
Ana Serrano: Canadian Film Centre
Participants
Advertising Panel
Jane Barratt: mcgarrybowen
Mayer Danzig: Kantar Retail
Jonathan Sackett: Oglivy & Mather
Advertising Panel
Josh Golden and Angela Wei
Advertising Panel
Jane Barratt: mcgarrybowen
Advertising Panel
Participants
Music Panel
Dick Wingate: DEV Advisors
Music Panel
Eric Garland and Bill Campbell
Eric Garland: LiveNation.com
Brian Lakamp: Clear Channel
Music Panel
Michael Doernberg: ReverbNation
Music Panel
Participants
Entertainment Panel
Rosemary Maggiore: Rachael Ray Digital
Laxmi Wordham: Michael J Fox Foundation
Katerina Markov and Laxmi Wordham
Katerina Markov: Atom Factory
Katerina Markov: Atom Factory
Harriet Seitler: Harpo Studios
Harriet Seitler: Harpo Studios
Entertainment Panel
Participants
Evening Keynote: David Payne
Riley McDonough and David Payne
Evening Keynote: David Payne
Riley McDonough and David Payne
Riley McDonough and David Payne
Gary Lucas "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero”
Gary Lucas "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero”
Gary Lucas "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero”
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Featured Speaker: Teddy Goff
Closing

Video Highlights

Video Highlights

Video London 2015

Video Highlight Amsterdam 2015

Video Highlight Amsterdam 2015

Video Highlight NYC 2016

Chief Digital Officer Talent Map

Talent Map CDO Growth
Chief Digital Officers by Sector

CDO Summit Ads and Creative

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Logos: CDO Club and Summit

David Mathison Bio and Head Shots

Short bio:

David Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief AI Officers (CAIOs), Chief Data & Analytics Officers (CDAOs), and Chief Digital Officers (CDOs). He’s been quoted by CNBC, Financial Times, Forbes, McKinsey, MIT Sloan, WSJ & more.

He is the founder/CEO of InnovationExchange.ai, parent of the CAIO Summit, CDO/CDAO Summits, and the CDO Club — the world’s first/largest network of CAIOs, CDAOs & CDOs. A $1B+ influence engine, the CDO Club connects 100K+ global AI/Data/Digital leaders who control billions in hiring, investment & strategic spend.

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Extended bio:

David Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief AI Officers (CAIOs), Chief Data and Analytics Officers (CDAOs), and Chief Digital Officers (CDOs), having been quoted by CNBC, Financial Times, Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, McKinsey, WSJ, and more.

He is the CEO and founder of InnovationExchange.ai, the holding company behind the Chief AI Officer Summit, the CDO/CDAO Summits, and the CDO Club, the world’s first and largest network of CAIOs, CDOs, and CDAOs.

A $1B+ influence engine, the CDO Club offers trusted access to 100,000 global C-suite AI/Data/Digital leaders who control billions in hiring, investment, and strategic spend.

Over the last decade, Mathison has consistently anticipated and defined the most important executive roles and market shifts in enterprise AI, data, and digital transformation.

Pioneering Firsts in AI, Data, and Digital Leadership:

  • 2025: Launched the world’s first Talent-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for fractional/on-demand Chief AI Officers and CDAOs.
  • 2024: Created the world’s first executive search practice dedicated to CAIO and GenAI talent.
  • 2023: Produced the world’s first-ever Chief AI Officer Summit.
  • 2020: Produced a Chief AI Officer/CDAO webinar series for IBM’s Global Chief Data Officer office and AI Client Accelerator team — years before CAIOs went mainstream.
  • 2019: First to identify and track the emerging Chief AI Officer title — when only ~200 existed worldwide — building on a decade of pioneering work defining the CDO role.
  • 2014: Published the world’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer Talent Map.
  • 2013: Delivered the world’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer (CDO) Summit.
  • 2012: Founded the CDO Club, providing trusted access to 100,000+ C-suite AI/Data/Digital leaders across the Fortune 500, venture-backed startups, VC and PE firms, government, military, and the national security and intelligence communities.
  • 2011–2013: MD, Digital Media at Chadick Ellig, named by Bloomberg BusinessWeek one of “The World’s Most Influential Headhunters,” where he incubated the CDO Club.
  • 2008: Published Be The Media, and 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. The book was a prescient call to the passion economy that helped creators connect directly with their audiences.
  • 2000: Mathison was a seed investor in Revere Data, which was acquired by Factset Research for $15 million in 2000.
  • 1999–2002: Founder/CEO of Kinecta, raised $30M from Adobe, Canaan, Fidelity & Reuters. Exceeded $1M+ revenue in year one; acquired via Stellent → Oracle ($440M).
  • 1994–1999: VP at Reuters; pioneered online content syndication, years before RSS existed.
  • 1989-1993: Mathison was the 7th person hired at Ovid, which provided natural language interfaces to medical databases such as MEDLINE. Ovid went public and in 1998 was acquired by Wolters Kluwer for $200 million.

Since 2012, Mathison has bootstrapped three verticals — executive search, events, and community — to independent 7-figure ARR with zero CAC, validating their “minicorn” status. He previously built multiple 7-figure products and businesses at Reuters and Kinecta within one year.

Mathison has executed multi-million-dollar GTM and leadership campaigns for the world’s most demanding clients: Accenture, Bain Capital, IBM, Insight Partners, McKinsey, Microsoft, and more.

Trusted by U.S. Government, Federal Agencies, Military, Intelligence, and Security communities, including C-level speakers from the Army, Air Force, CIA, CFPB, Coast Guard, DHS, DNI, DoD, DoT, HUD, NASA, National Guard, Navy, OPM, SEC, Treasury, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and The White House.

He has led executive AI and digital strategy programs at Columbia, Oxford, Northeastern, UTS, and hosted summits on five continents.

He has delivered keynotes on five continents — from Columbia University and the United Nations (three times in 2010) to cities spanning Austin to Zagreb — a literal A-to-Z of global digital leadership.

Recognized as the leading authority on Chief AI, Analytics, Data, and Digital Officers, Mathison has been quoted by American Banker, Axios, CIO.com, CIO Journal, CIO-UK, CMS Wire, CNBC, Computer Weekly, Computerworld, Deloitte, Diginomica, Dow Jones MarketWatch, EdTech Magazine, eMarketer, FedTech Magazine, FierceCIO, Financial Times, Forbes, GovCIO, Guardian, Huffington Post, HR Executive, I-CIO, LinkedIn News, McKinsey & Company, Media Post, MIT Sloan Management Review, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, and ZDNet, among others.

Mathison received his master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 1995.

Board of Directors
• Pace University Lubin School of Business (2020–2021)
• HomeAid America (2010–2013)
• Webhood.org, Cambridge, MA (2002–2011)
• Media Freedom Foundation (2008–2011)
• Mountain Play Association, Mill Valley, CA (2008)

Board of Conveners
 • Marin Community Media Center, San Rafael, CA (2007)

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