(US and Canada) The Boston CDO Forum launched with Venkata Chirravuri, Mattangote Arjun, Raj Nimmagadda, Brian Coogan, Israel Abraham, Chathuri Daluwatte, PhD, Jane Urban, Kartik Sakthivel, Steve Wanamaker, Krishna Valluru, Prem Swaroop, Suresh Martha, and Savio Rodrigues (left to right).

CDO Magazine and the Boston CDO Forum community gathered for an evening of networking and collaboration on August 18 at the Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor.

CDO Magazine CEO Steve Wanamaker introduced the Boston CDO Forum Organizing Committee – Raj Nimmagadda, Global Head of R&D Data at Sanofi; Krishna Valluru, Director of Advanced Data Analytics at Fidelity Investments; Jane Urban, Senior Director, Commercial Data Management & Strategy at Takeda Pharmaceuticals; and Savio Rodrigues, Global Editorial Board Member and Vice President at Trianz.

The committee highlighted the vision of the Boston CDO Forum and discussed how the local community is connected to global thought leadership through the CDO Magazine community worldwide.

The vision of the Boston CDO Forum is to build a deeper community among greater Boston area data and analytics executives, and help champion collaboration on interests and challenges unique to their disciplines.

The Boston CDO Forum provides a vendor-free space for members to:

• Collaborate on ideas and solutions to common problems
• Learn from one another, mentor or be mentored by others from their own experience 
• Build a trusted and credible network of leaders 
• Create opportunities to raise the CDO profile within the community

“The conversation was rich and engaging. We were keen for this to be a shared learning event. It was a wonderful opportunity to strengthen relationships through networking and invest in each other’s futures,” says Savio Rodrigues.