2024 AI Governance Leadership Summit

Bill Franks is the Director of the Center for Data Science and Analytics at Kennesaw State University.  Franks is also the author of Winning The Room, Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave, The Analytics Revolution, and 97 Things About Ethics Everyone In Data Science Should Know. He is a sought after speaker and frequent blogger, has been ranked on multiple industry influencer lists, and was an inaugural inductee into the Analytics Hall of Fame. His work, including roles as Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata (NYSE: TDC) and the International Institute For Analytics, has spanned clients in a variety of industries for companies ranging in size from Fortune 100 companies to small non-profit organizations.  You can learn more at https://www.bill-franks.com.

Gaia Bellone is a dynamic and accomplished leader in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. In her current role at Prudential Financial, she leads Global Data and AI Governance and serves as Chief Data Officer (CDO) for Emerging Markets.

Her contributions to Prudential Financial have been significant and impactful. As the former Chief Data Scientist at Prudential, she led the Data Science team in creating innovative solutions for Digital, Marketing, Sales, and Distribution, the AI/ML Platform team, and the GenAI Enterprise Program. Her leadership and strategic vision have been instrumental in driving business growth and enhancing operational efficiency.

Prior to her tenure at Prudential, she held prominent positions at Key Bank and JPMorgan Chase. At Key Bank, she served as the Head of Data Science for the Community Bank. Her leadership and expertise in data science were crucial in optimizing the bank's operations and improving customer experience. At JPMorgan Chase, she led the data science teams for Home Lending and Auto Finance. Her strategic insights and data-driven solutions significantly improved the business performance in these sectors, contributing to the overall success of the enterprise.

Throughout her career, she has consistently demonstrated her ability to leverage data and AI to drive business growth and improve operational efficiency. Her contributions to the businesses and the enterprise have been substantial and transformative.

Skip McCormick is a technology, data science, and intelligence leader. After serving as a member of Cornerstone Technologies’ Board of Directors for a long while, Skip McCormick recently accepted the full-time role as Chief Technology Officer and Artificial Intelligence Practice Lead, pioneering efforts to service the many advanced and complex needs of our clients. Before joining Cornerstone, Skip was a Managing Director at BNY Mellon where he built and lead BNY Mellon’s Data Science infrastructure and organization, driving the scope and impact of predictive analytics and machine learning for the firm, where he was recognized as BNY Mellon’s Innovator of the Year for this unprecedented foundational work.

Prior to BNY Mellon, Skip was privileged to serve the federal service for twenty-seven years, including seventeen at the CIA where he built and lead teams combating terrorism with game-changing big-data and supercomputing innovations at global-scales with high-consequence leveraging imperfect data, uncertain context, and critical dependencies on dynamic metadata.

Skip has an uncanny knack for seeing and solving simultaneous technical challenges before they are obvious, optimally leveraging new and emerging opportunities. He is also a respected computer science author with deep experience in unpredictable and messy data acquisition & hygiene, regulatory governance, and high-impact strategic problem solving at enterprise scales. He is an agile, resourceful, inspirational leader and team-builder.

Skip grew up in Seattle, Washington before serving in the US Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer.

Sumalatha Bachu has over 23+ years of diversified technology experience. She specializes in big data operations, enterprise application monitoring solutions, automation, data analytics, and machine learning model governance and monitoring domains. In her role at FINRA, she leads multi-disciplinary teams managing market regulation batch/data operations and oversees petabyte-scale data and complex workloads in FINRA’s cloud-based big data architecture.
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Sumalatha has a master’s degree in Information Technology from University of Maryland. She lives with her husband and two kids in Maryland. She is passionate, motivated and a coach combining technical acumen to provide innovative solutions.

Dave Trier is charged with defining and executing on strategy for ModelOp Center, paving the way for customers to overcome their ModelOps challenges and unlock the value of AI.

Prior to joining ModelOp, Dave held several technology and data leadership roles, VP of Advanced Analytics Services at Teradata, and Chief Technology Officer at Powered by Action. As a manager and consultant at Accenture, he led large-scale enterprise transformation projects and helped pioneer the space of ModelOps through various Accenture consultancy tools and solutions.

With over 20 years of technology and product management experience and multiple patents in his name, Dave helps ensure ModelOp continually delivers cutting edge innovation, helping enterprises implement and drive business transformation with ground-breaking technologies—from AI, big data, and cloud computing, to IoT solutions.

Dave holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Notre Dame.