Fitch Group, Chief Data Officer: Early Preparations for the CDO Journey

Heidi Lanford, Chief Data Officer at Fitch Group together with Mark Johnson, Editorial Board Chair at CDO Magazine recounts her early exposure to mathematics and statistics which eventually led to an early appreciation of data science. Lanford’s fascination with the application of math and statistics to other disciplines and real-world problems gave way to an early career in data mining and data science.