The Power of Data

We speak to renowned finance archaeologist William N Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies & Director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management as he takes us on a history trip of the stock market and how seismic events have impacted it, and how this might help us better prepare for the aftermath of COVID-19. Professor Goetzmann also explores what it takes to be a great asset management firm and the importance of environmental, social and governance factors in the world of investing.

Danny McCoy, CEO of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, shares his unique insights on the success around the driving forces across Ireland’s thriving business and economic landscape. Danny also shares Ireland’s unique growth story of the past decade, dealing with COVID-19 and the value of data in digitizing economies.

We speak to, Noor Sugrue, Founder of Vintro, one of Dun & Bradstreet’s latest partners of Dun & Bradstreet Accelerate and James Caan, Entrepreneur, Investor and Advisor to Vintro, on the transformational value that the right connection can have in business. They explore making investment all that more available to entrepreneurs through curating a marketplace with access to the best business, political and creative leaders and the importance of helping the next generation of businesses. 

Richard Wilding, Professor of Supply Chain Strategy at Cranfield University and Hemanth Setty, Global Head of Product for Risk Supply Chain and Compliance Solutions at Dun and Bradstreet explore the value of supply chains and their critical role during the pandemic and how they’ve been impacted. They discuss the importance of planning and infrastructure in the vaccine supply chain, leveraging automation and how supply chain 4.0 is changing the capabilities that we have.

In this episode of The Power of Data Podcast, Cristiano Heckert, Management Secretary at the Ministry of Economy for Brazil and Marcos Maciel, CEO at CIAL Dun & Bradstreet explore Brazil's digital agenda as it looks to digital transformation to improve services and optimise government efficiency. They discuss the Ministry of Economy’s work with CIAL to reduce barriers to entry for foreign suppliers and increase competition for better services and products, the challenge and opportunity coordinating hundreds of government departments together can bring, and the turning point we are now at with digital services.

In this episode of the Power of Data Podcast, Samantha Seaton, Chief Executive Officer at Moneyhub Enterprise shares her insight on harnessing the power of consumer data in business, the true value of data exchange in our daily lives and launching the world's first QR code payment capability for the third sector to tackle donation leakage. 

Sam also talks about her other venture Open 51 and how it is challenging how women are represented in finance and the importance of tackling bias in machine learning and algorithms.

 

Julie Page, CEO of Aon UK and President of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) discusses how data will be key to assessing non-damage business interruption insurance in the wake of the global pandemic. Julie also shares her views on the importance of supporting diversity and inclusion in the insurance industry and business, supporting public trust in insurance and preparing for unforeseen events.

 

Dun & Bradstreet experts Gary Kotovets, Chief Data & Analytics Officer; Anthony Scriffignano, Chief Data Scientist; and Rikard Cantell, Analytics Director get together in this special episode to predict their top five trends in data and analytics for 2021 and beyond. Listen to find how businesses can use data to drive growth and navigate unpredictability in an environment disrupted by COVID-19 and other factors.

Simon Mulcahy, Chief Innovation Officer at Salesforce, discusses the power of putting data and actionable insights at the fingertips of everyone in the organization to enhance collaboration, increase customer satisfaction, and supercharge growth. Simon also discusses the importance fostering a culture of learning at every level to drive innovation.

Richard Wyn Griffith, Managing Director at Softcat explores how data has played an important role in Softcat’s organic growth. Richard also discusses adjusting to remote working and the importance of instilling a culture that champions employee wellbeing and maintains great customer service.

James Harrison, Head of Insurance UKI and Sam Tidswell-Norrish, International CMO at Dun & Bradstreet speak to industry heavyweights Stephen Catlin, Founder and CEO of Convex; Silvi Wompa Sinclair, Group Head of Portfolio Underwriting at Swiss Re; and James Kent, Global CEO at Willis Re on some of the most pressing issues currently facing the insurance sector including key trends impacting the industry. They explore how enhanced data capabilities are playing a key role in the central corporate strategy of leading insurers from the way they understand their customers to product innovation and why looking at talent and diversity differently is needed to support the next paradigm for insurance.

Katherine Baicker, Dean at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy discusses a data-driven approach to policy making and the value that merging datasets across silos can bring to people’s healthcare. Katherine also details her hopes for the future of research and policymaking and rethinking the modes of education to keep people safe.

Nicholas Kwan, Director of Research at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council discusses the Belt and Road Initiative and its mission to facilitate globalisation that brings the world together and works for everyone’s benefit. Speaking ahead of the Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong, Nicholas also discusses the Digital Silk Road program and the value that technology and digitalisation can bring to developing countries.

Bruce Dorris, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners discusses how data and analytics can help in the fight against fraud. He also talks about the increased threat of fraud as organisations moved to working from home as a result of COVID-19 and the tools that can help to mitigate and reduce the risk of fraudulent activity.

Dimitrios Dosis, President of Mastercard Advisors, shares how his team are working to democratize the economy through better data practices and why data-driven decision making needs to become more intuitive. He also discusses why it’s important to put the consumer in charge and how Mastercard have been supporting businesses with COVID-19 recovery.

 

Gary Kotovets, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Dun & Bradstreet explains how the company uses its data on 400 million businesses to help clients around the world deliver a competitive edge. He discusses the depth of insight provided via Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Cloud and how the firm is using alternative data to drive increased value for global businesses to support growth.

We are joined in this episode by Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Founder and Executive Chair at Snoop. Jayne-Anne talks to us about building a career and continuing to innovate in the face of uncertainty, from Norwich Union to Virgin Money and their eventual acquisition of Northern Rock after the financial crisis. Jayne-Anne also talks about how Snoop, and open banking more generally, are responding to customer apathy with traditional banking and delivering meaningful and actionable insight to customers, while offering some reflections on what diversity in business should mean today.

Alice Hu Wagner, Managing Director of Strategy, Economics and Business Development at the British Business Bank explores why data and measurement is so important when enacting change in business and the role businesses, institutions and governments can play in increasing transparency. Alice also discusses the British Business Bank’s work to support COVID recovery and their role within the financial services sector to help highlight and address race and ethnic disparities around access to finance

England Cricketer and Captain of Kent Cricket Club, Sam Billings, explores the power of data in sport and the correlation with superior performance, how the best lessons for growth come  from failure and what he hopes is the next stage for cricket as a global sport.

We’re joined in this episode by Akhil Lalwani, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Convex Insurance who discusses the introduction of the CDO role in insurance and how his experience in technology has equipped him for addressing the industry’s move to more digital interaction. Akhil also talks about challenging the status-quo and the role that diversity of thought plays in shaping the future of the insurance sector.

Joining us for this episode on The Power of Data Podcast are the co-founders of our D&B Accelerate partner BuyHive, Minesh Pore CEO and Brent Barnes, COO. Minesh and Brent discuss sourcing supplies amidst a global pandemic, using data to ensure trusted, high quality manufacturing and their vision for making sourcing as easy as possible for buyers.

 

In a special Power of Data episode, President of Dun & Bradstreet Stephen Daffron is joined by John W. Thompson, Board Chair at Microsoft and Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, to celebrate the power of partnerships to mark the launch of D&B Accelerate. Stephen and John discuss the value of having the right partners to drive mutual growth and why data is key for every business today.

Joining us on the podcast is Gordon Hagart, Independent Investment Consultant and Special Advisor to the Institutional Investors Roundtable, who demystifies Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and its role in responsible business. Gordon explores the drivers and catalysts responsible for the business shift towards sustainability priorities, why ESG is moving from a CSR function to a CFO responsibility and how alternative data sources are helping increase ESG’s opportunities.

In this episode we explore the importance of data in ensuring quality benchmarking for the quality management and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. 

We are joined by Jennifer Maguire, Deputy Director of the Office of Quality Surveillance of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Marten Ritz, Head of Operational Excellence at the University of St. Gallen and Mark Seiss, Director of Predictive Analytics at Dun & Bradstreet. 

Listen in as they discuss their latest research project on helping the pharma manufacturing industry become more effective in the quality development of products and work towards establishing a rating system to drive Quality Management Maturity.

For more information regarding the study or to participate, please visit www.dnb.com/pharmastudy 

Bahea Izmeqna, Chief Operating Officer at Greensill explores why data is an icon to show growth in business, mitigating risk and exposure through data and the power of digitisation to enable Greensill to scale geographically. Bahea also discusses making finance fairer and cheaper for all and why when moving through a digital transformation, it’s important for companies to remember it’s not just a technology shift, but a behavioural one too.

 

Sam Tidswell-Norrish speaks to Adrian Lovett, President and Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Foundation who examines the societal and business responsibility of the world wide web and why the web needs to work better for women and protecting them from online abuse. They also discuss mitigating misinformation amidst a global pandemic, data rights and the need to ensure that people have the digital skills and basic digital literacy to be able to interact online in a meaningful way.

Sean Thompson, Executive Vice President of Business Network and Ecosystem at SAP Procurement Solutions joins us to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on globalisation, supply chains and the digital agenda. Plus, how data can be used to understand a business’ sustainability footprint and to feed Artificial Intelligence.

In this podcast episode, Nikhil Kamath, Co-Founder and CIO of Zerodha and True Beacon covers the need for pragmatic education and identifying areas for growth. He also discusses capital market shifts and the opportunity for India to become a global manufacturing hub.

Brian Alster, General Manager for Third-Party Risk & Compliance at Dun & Bradstreet joins us on the podcast to discuss understanding the levels to businesses multi-tiered supply chains, his excitement around ESG, helping companies understand risk profiles and seeing the beginnings of green shoots of recovery following COVID-19.

Adam Spearing, EMEA Field CTO at our partner Salesforce shares his experience of supporting the NHS and other businesses through COVID. He also discussed the importance of values, diversity and inclusion in business, and his excitement around the potential of AI and the single source of truth achieved using data. 

Mark Barrenechea, CEO and CTO of OpenText, discusses the importance of data to deliver an ‘information advantage’ in a post-COVID world in this episode.

Mark shares his view on how a post-COVID world will ignite an information advantage in business, as well as a fundamental change to the nature of work. He also discusses the importance of ensuring strong ethics and trust in the multi-layered aspects of supply chains and M&A activity.

Sameer Sawhney, Senior MD and Co-Head of APAC at Greensill joins us to discuss unleashing sources of capital, upskilling, supporting SMEs and supply chain finance.

Lei Chen, Chief Credit Officer at Lenovo Group discusses the management of trade credit and supply chains on a global scale and the impact of COVID-19.

 

Adam Marshall, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce discusses the importance of data at a local business level and the potential for SMEs.

 

Dun & Bradstreet’s Chief Data Scientist, Anthony Scriffignano, delves into anomalies in data and the ethics of Artificial Intelligence in this latest episode.

Pre-lockdown, Terry Scuoler, Chair of the Institute of Export & International Trade, joined us to talk Brexit and how data can help to drive growth.

Rachel Aldighieri, Managing Director of the DMA joins us to discuss data privacy, the GDPR  and tackling trust in the marketing industry.

In this episode Leyre Murillo Villar from Macquarie discusses her early experiences in data and attracting young female talent into the data industry.

The UK’s Small Business Commissioner Philip King discusses best practices for prompt payments, the role data and automation can play to support SMEs.

Vishal Marria, CEO of Quantexa joins Dun & Bradstreet’s Ed Thorne to discuss how connecting the data dots can help fight the human cost of financial crime.

Mark Whitcroft, Founding Partner at Illuminate Financial joins us to talk about investment trends and extracting actionable insights from data.

Bob Wigley, Chairman at UK Finance, delves into fighting economic crime, how Brexit could be an opportunity and the impact of tech on the next generation.

Sir Douglas Flint discusses the re(evolution) of the banking industry, the increasing breadth of data sources and the introduction of open banking.

David Gonzalez, CDO and Head of Big Data and Advanced Analytics and AI at Vodafone Business discusses how data can transform and connect businesses. 

This special episode features a panel hosted by Catherine Mayer, co-founder of the Women's Equality Party, focused on gender and data gaps in businesses.

Stephen Daffron, President of Dun and Bradstreet, joins Sam Tidswell-Norrish for this episode to share more about the Firm’s new Analytics Studio. He discusses how traditional and non-traditional data can be used to support business goals, drive competitive edge and help businesses understand the impact of events such as coronavirus on their supply chains and business operations.

Stephen Catlin, founder and CEO of Convex, joins us in this podcast episode to share his 46-year journey within the insurance industry, and more about his latest venture.

 

This episode features Sir Peter Estlin, Alderman and former Lord Mayor of the City of London. Peter worked for 35 years in the financial services and banking industry and has recently launched Future.Now, a new initiative focused on motivating people and businesses to boost their digital skills.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Bill Winters, Group CEO of Standard Chartered. Bill shared fascinating insights from his financial services career and the evolution of the industry. He also talks about the importance of using ‘the balance sheet’ to do something that is ‘fundamentally good’.  

Yanna Winter, CIO and Head of UK IT and Global Corporate & Commercial IT at Generali, joined us to talk about the use of data across the insurance industry, and the importance of master data management to risk and portfolio management.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Virginia Falcon and Nadia Sotiropoulou from the Google Measurement & Analytics Team at the Women in Data conference. As well as being enthusiastic champions of diversity in the industry, they shared their passion for making data simple and actionable for businesses.

Recorded at the Women in Data conference, this week we’re in conversation with Claire Thompson, Head of Data & Analytics at RBS and one of the 2019 ‘Twenty in Data & Technology’ awardees. Claire talks us through her passion for data, and why she finds working in the industry so exciting and varied.

Recorded live at the Women in Data conference in London, the episode features Simon Walker, Managing Partner at data consultancy firm, Kubrick. He talks about the transformation underway across the data industry from data governance to data literacy, and the value that diversity of talent and skills can deliver for businesses.

In this episode, we’re joined by Rachel Keane from Women in Data who is launching a new initiative that encourages young women to explore career opportunities in data & analytics. Rachel explains how Girls in Data will seek to overcome the stigma around careers involving maths and science, and the importance of educating the next generation about why data is the lifeblood of every business.

This week we are joined by Richard Lumb, Board Member at Finastra, who shares his perspective on how investment in data, analytics and emerging technology is transforming the financial services industry.

Sarah Moore, Data Intelligence Director at Sky, was named one of Women in Data’s ‘Twenty in Data & Technology’ in 2019. She joined us at the Women in Data Conference to talk about how data about the customer journey is driving business strategy and decisions.

In our latest episode, Stephen C. Daffron, President of Dun & Bradstreet talks about how data & analytics can enable better access to capital and help support business growth.

In our latest episode, Paul Walker gives us an insight into his career at Goldman Sachs and his view on how data is foundational to all commercial, and non-commercial activities.

In this episode, Sue Langley shares how diversity is top of her agenda across her various roles including Gallagher UK, the Home Office and the City of London Corporation. Hear more about her work as a mentor and a Non-Executive Director in a changing business world, and why she feels believing in yourself is key to success.

In this special episode recorded at the Women in Data conference in London, we speak to co-founder Roisin McCarthy about the ways organizations can encourage more women into data related roles. We also hear from two of the inspirational women named in the 2019 ‘Twenty in Data’: Laura Bonnett from the University of Liverpool and Indi Birak from Fujitsu.

Bruce Lowthers joins us for this instalment recorded live at the P20 conference in London to discuss the modernisation of banking platforms and the evolution of the payments industry.

This week we’re in conversation with Ann Cairns, Vice Chairman at Mastercard and Chair of the 30% Club. Ann shares her insights on the importance of data privacy and using data for good, as well as her passion and work to improve gender balance in the workplace (and for science fiction movies!).

In this episode we are joined by Co-Founder and CEO of QOMPLX, Jason Crabtree who talks about the importance of embracing complexity and distilling the most valuable insight from data in an interconnected environment. Tune in to hear how a unified analytics infrastructure can help inform better decisions.

Edward Thorne, Managing Director of Dun & Bradstreet UK speaks to Max Firth of Funding Xchange about how data and technology are transforming the small and medium enterprise (SME) lending environment by increasing transparency and encouraging more competition. Max shares his passion for data & analytics and how Funding Xchange is working to support both lenders and SMEs, and driving greater personalisation through the use of data.

In this inaugural episode, Anthony Jabbour, CEO of Dun & Bradstreet and Black Knight discusses how analytics is key to making sense of the tremendous amount of data available in our modern world. Anthony shares his views on how innovation, integration and identity can drive business success, and the importance of leadership and talent development. Tune in to hear about Anthony’s personal experience of transformation and the opportunities he sees for the future of data & analytics.

Welcome to ‘The Power of Data’, the podcast from Dun & Bradstreet. Join us every Saturday to hear from the businesses and visionaries working to unlock the value of data.