(US and Canada) We are pleased to welcome Randy Bean to CDO Magazine’s Global Editorial Board. As a global thought leader, our board of top executives shares their expert opinions and innovations in data and analytics. It ensures that we champion the best companies, leaders, and insights that accelerate our community’s success in today’s digital world. Members may serve as editorial writers, reviewers, content developers, and conference speakers.

Bean is an industry thought leader, author, and speaker in data-driven business leadership.  He is the author of Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI, published on August 31, 2021.

Bean is a regular contributor to CDO Magazine, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal, writing about data-driven business transformation and the role of the Chief Data Officer.

He serves on the advisory committee of the MIT Chief Data Officer (CDOIQ) Symposium and has organized and moderated the Chief Data Officer panel for the past nine years. During that time, he has hosted Chief Data Officers from American Express, Best Buy, CVS Health, Eli Lilly, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Mayo Clinic, Mastercard, Morgan Stanley, State Farm, USAA, and Walmart, among others.  He also hosts a semi-annual Chief Data Officer executive roundtable discussion group, with representation from two dozen Fortune 1000 CDOs each year. 

Bean is the founder and CEO of NewVantage Partners, a strategic advisory firm he founded in 2001.  Wavestone, a Paris-based global consultancy, acquired NewVantage Partners in December 2021.

The CDO Magazine community welcomes Bean to our growing Global Editorial Board membership.