Editorial Board Announcements
Written by: CDO Magazine Bureau
Updated 4:38 PM UTC, Mon August 7, 2023
(APAC) We are pleased to welcome Deep Thomas to CDO Magazine’s Global Editorial Board. Thomas is Nomura Group’s Chief Data Officer, responsible for leading the firm’s data and analytics strategy and improving business outcomes from data.
Thomas is a reputed digital and analytics expert, a thought leader, and a passionate evangelist of data science. He has a distinguished career spanning over 25 years of delivering sustained and increasing profitability through data and analytics-led business transformation in financial services and multi-sectoral global conglomerates.
Prior to joining Nomura, Thomas was the Group CDAO at Aditya Birla Group; a US$60 billion global conglomerate operating in over 50 countries across more than 17 diverse sectors such as metals, cement, telco, fashion, financial services, textiles, etc. Prior to Aditya Birla Group, Thomas was the Founder and CEO of Tata Insights and Quants, a big data and decision science company set up to drive digital transformation in US$300 billion Tata Group across its multi-sector B2B and B2C businesses.
Thomas has also spent over 18 years with global financial services groups in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He led Citigroup’s Global Decision Management Center of Excellence across India, Budapest, and regional offices to support its global retail and commercial banking businesses across more than 25 markets. Thomas has also led HSBC’s Global Analytics Centre across India and China to steer its retail banking and consumer finance marketing initiatives and held key global leadership positions with American Express in the US.
Thomas is a Computer Science graduate with an MBA in International Marketing from Arizona State, MS in Information Systems, and BE in Computer Science and holds more than 20 patents in decision science and analytics capabilities.
As global thought leaders, CDO Magazine’s Editorial Board of top executives share their expert opinions and innovations in data and analytics. The board ensures that we champion the best companies, leaders, and insights that accelerate our community’s success. Members may serve as editorial writers, reviewers, content developers, and conference speakers.
The CDO Magazine community welcomes Deep Thomas to our growing Global Editorial Board membership.