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10 heads of data in Banking
These ten executives have held the chief data officer title at banks and banking groups. A reader can learn how bank data leaders set data strategy, balance data use with compliance and build the teams and platforms behind it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Aileen Tania Tanujaya
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer & Head of Transformation · DBS Bank
Chief Data Officer & Head of Transformation at DBS Bank since August 2019, a role the profile places in Indonesia. Her other DBS Bank roles include Head of Anti Fraud (2019) and Head of Credit Card (2017–2019), and at ANZ she was Head of Consumer Finance (2016–2017) and Head of Portfolio Management and Segmentation (2008–2016).
Akshey Gupta
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · Bandhan Bank
Former Chief Data Officer at Bandhan Bank (2022–2025); the profile says he has led enterprise-wide transformations across core banking, data platforms, AI/ML, cloud modernization, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance. He was also Head - Data Engineering & Tech Centre Head at Axis Bank (2019–2022) and VP (Chief Data Office) at Deutsche Bank (2016–2019).
Binit Jha
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · IDBI Bank
Chief Data Officer at IDBI Bank since 2025, where the profile says his responsibilities include providing vision, strategy and execution for all data-related activities of the bank; his headline also names him Head of Analytics & AI. He was Executive Director at Morgan Stanley (2022–2024), Director at UBS (2017–2022) and AVP at Bank of America (2008–2017).
Daniel Germain
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · BNP Paribas
Chief Data Officer at BNP Paribas since June 2016, a role the profile lists under general management at C-level. At BNP Paribas he was also DSI CIO (2006–2016), and his other listed roles include Project Executive at IBM (2003) and HelpDesk MGR, consultant at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (1997–1999).
Gustavo Pilatti
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · BNP Paribas Personal Finance
Former Chief Data Officer at BNP Paribas Personal Finance (2023–2026), which the profile describes as the consumer-credit arm of BNP Paribas in Portugal under European banking supervision. The profile says he arrived to a data estate that had grown by accident, with shadow databases, SAS and local repositories. He has been Expert and Mentor at Itaú Unibanco since 2021 and Professor at FIA Business School - Labdata since 2022.
Isabel Barroso-Gomez
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · DNB
Chief Data Officer at DNB since 2025, where the profile says her key role is understanding the roles data plays in the bank's day-to-day business, using data to execute on strategy, and securing the crossing of data and compliance. She was Chief Data Officer at Santander Nordics (2020–2025), Head of Data Governance at SpareBank 1 Gruppen AS (2017–2020) and Head of Data Capitalization and Governance at Fremtind (2019–2020).
Lamya Barrak Altabtebai
LinkedInExperience: Group Chief Data Officer · Kuwait Finance House
Group Chief Data Officer at Kuwait Finance House since August 2024; the profile describes the company as a banking company. She was Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Ahli United Bank - Kuwait (2022–2024), DGM IT Strategy and Architecture at Kuwait Finance House (2016–2021) and DGM Corporate Support and Head of IT at KIB (2003–2015).
Marcin Mikołajczak
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · Santander Bank Polska
Chief Data Officer at Santander Bank Polska since May 2019, with a profile headline that also names him Head of Data Platforms at the bank. His other Santander Bank Polska roles include Head Of Department (since 2016) and Manager, Corporate Data Warehouse Department (2016), and he was Senior Business Team Manager at Roche (2014–2016).
Milind Zodge
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · EverBank
Chief Data Officer at EverBank since September 2025, where the profile says he led enterprise data and AI transformation across the bank, overseeing data engineering, architecture and AI/ML. He was Director, Principal Data Engineer at The Hartford (2019–2025) and Chief Data Officer at AvantLink (2015–2019).
Shebani Baweja
LinkedInExperience: Group Chief Data Officer · Standard Chartered
Group Chief Data Officer at Standard Chartered since June 2026, after serving as Interim Group Chief Data Officer (2026). Her other Standard Chartered roles include CISO, Consumer, Private, Wealth & Business Banking (2023–2026) and Head, ICS Adoption and Execution, Consumer, Private and Business Banking (2021–2023).
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Match the person's institution and scope to yours, since running data for a group-level bank differs from running it for one country unit or a newer data office. For governance and compliance questions, favor people whose notes describe governance work, and for platform or AI questions, favor those whose notes describe engineering and transformation work.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you define the scope of the chief data officer role at your bank, and where did it sit in the organization?
- 02How do you balance making data available to the business with regulatory and compliance requirements?
- 03Which data platform and governance investments paid off first, and which took longer than expected?
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