Data Science Connect's Top 100 Data + AI Leaders of New York City list recognizes the executives building the technical, strategic, and organizational foundations for AI-driven enterprise transformation.

New York City has long been a hub for deep technical expertise, and cross-industry innovation. This year’s honorees represent the city’s most impactful leaders in sectors including financial services, healthcare, technology, retail, and manufacturing. They are the decision-makers turning data into operational advantage—designing modern architectures, governing at scale, and delivering AI products that create measurable impact.

We’ll celebrate these leaders at the ALIGN AI Executive Summit in Sam Francisco on August 19, 2026, at McCormick & Kuleto’s. This invite/application-only gathering will bring together 150+ senior executives for candid, peer-to-peer conversations on AI strategy, architecture trade-offs, and scaling challenges.

Join us in recognizing Dallas’s most influential data and AI executives and be part of the conversations shaping the next era of enterprise leadership.

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Jim Young

Global Chief Data Officer and Head of Agentic AI Solutions

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Scott Keating

VP, Audience and Data Platforms

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Kavita Gupta

VP, Enterprise Big Data Platform

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Sameer Gupta

Chief Data & Analytics Officer

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Simone Hoyte

VP & Head, Enterprise Data Strategy

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Elina Shkodnik

SVP, Data Platform Engineering

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Neil O'Grady

Global Data COO

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Kavya Garg

Head of Marketing Analytics

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Amin Venjara

Chief Data Officer

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Dmitriy Furer

VP, Chief Data Architecture

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Chitra Hota

CIO & MD, Head of Data & Analytics, COO Technology

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Keshav Dev

Chief Data Analytics & AI Officer

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Karthik Vijayakumar

Head of Strategy, AI & Data, COO, Chief of Staff

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Emanuel Bettelheim

Head of Data & Analytics Platforms, Office of the CTO

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Rachel Chernoff

SVP, Data Science & Analytics

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Abhijit Bose

SVP, Head of Enterprise AI and ML Platforms

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Lauren Wetzel

Global President, Data and Technology Solutions

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Marco de Sa

SVP, Head of Data

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Christina Egea

SVP, Product, Enterprise Data

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Manuel Neto

VP, Global Analytics & Data Science

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Yaron David

Chief Digital Officer

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Rick McFarland

EVP, Chief Analytics & AI Officer

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Lucianne Decicco

SVP, Marketing Technology and Data Platforms

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Brian Krulik

Director of IT Data Governance & Process Improvement

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Ali Keshavarz

Chief Data Analytics & AI Officer

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John Yan

VP, Analytics

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Sherif Kamel

SVP, Chief Digital, Data and Technology Officer

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Stan Sobol

SVP, Head of Master and Reference Data Management

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Laure Salomon

VP, Consumer Analytics

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Kalindi Mehta

Chief Market and Enterprise Intelligence Officer

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Rishi Dubey

VP, Data Platform Engineering

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Ram Iyer

Chief Data Officer

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Corey Rizzi-Wise

VP, Data Engineering

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Kyle Goodwin

SVP, Insights and Analytics

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Robert Babinski

Head of Enterprise Generative AI Strategy

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Rich Hoover

SVP, Enterprise Data Engineering

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Vel Parvath

SVP, Head of AI Architecture & Engineering

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Mehdi Esmail

Chief AI & Data Officer

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Sara Dillon

Chief Data Officer

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Domenic Venuto

Chief Product & Data Officer

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Peter Faseun

AVP, Data Platform Architecture & Product Management

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Krishna Shah

Chief Data Officer

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Tommaso Mansi

VP, AI, ML and Digital Health

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George Abbott

Chief Product Officer, Head of Product, Data, AI and Design

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Cecilia Bonucchi

VP of Firmwide AI Solutions, Product & Strategy

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Koichi Iwata

SVP, Global Head of Enterprise Data & Governance

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Andrew Reiskind

Chief Data Officer

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Girish Nadkarni

Chief AI Officer

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Christy Orazi

Chief Data and Financial Operations Officer

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Brandon Tepper

SVP, Global Head of Data

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Will Gonzalez

Chief Growth & Data Officer

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Gary Barnhart

Corporate VP, LTC Data Architecture Leader

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Mike O'Rourke

Head of AI & Emerging Technology

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Maggie Zhang

Director, Measurement, UCAN

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Vinay Jain

SVP, Head of Client Data Strategy

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Vikas Sharma

Chief Data Officer

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Kristin Myers

EVP, Chief Digital Officer, Head of Technology

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Nicole Rosner

SVP, Streaming, Digital & Social Analytics, Corporate

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Kodi Foster

Commercial AI Data Strategy & Platforms Lead

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Joe Bechtel

VP, Artificial Intelligence

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Joe Atkinson

Global Chief AI Officer

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Navdeep Brar

MD & VP, Global Equities Technology & Data Platforms

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Stacey Jaffe

Chief Digital Officer

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Michael Kaufman

U.S. Chief Data Officer

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Rick Burgess

VP of Engineering, Trust and Identity

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Linda Tao

Executive SVP, Digital Risk & Controls and Operations

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Geraldine Servouze

VP, Data & AI

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Nasim Khoshkhou

SVP, Analytics and Data

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Domenic Dimeglio

EVP, Chief Marketing & Chief Data Officer

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Smita Katakwar

Chief Information Officer

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Kalyani Sekar

SVP, Chief Data & AI Officer

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Iwao Fusillo

Chief Data & Analytics Officer

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Purvi Shah

VP, Product Development, Enterprise Data Platforms

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Ash Dhupar

Chief AI & Data Officer

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Rachna Narem

Executive Vice President, Growth Analytics

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Barclay Blair

Sr. Managing Director, AI Product Innovation

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Nick Brett

SVP, Head of Fast Forecasting Engineering

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Kalyan Sengupta

MD, Global Head of Data, Analytics, AI & Digitalization

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Jenny Mustazza

Managing Director, Client Digital Products

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Monojit Mitra

Managing Director, Head of Model Risk US

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Christopher Di Gioia

Executive Director, Head of Product Data Governance

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Narasimha Bingi

Senior Director, Head of Architecture, Digital, Data, and AI

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Natalie Myshkina

Global Head of AI Transformation & Customer Zero

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Mathew Paruthickal

Global Head of Data & AI Architecture & Engineering

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Isaac Wagner

Vice President, Analytics and Insights

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Raju Gorakhiya

Vice President Data Strategy & Insight Experience Owner

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Latesh Nair

Global Product Head, Security & Data AI

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Federico Lora

Head of Data Science and Digital Health, TDS DPDS

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Elena Lin

Director, Regional Head, Legal & Compliance Analytics

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Joshua Tanz

Vice President, Finance AI Transformation

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Lu Ai

Vice President, Data Governance and Innovation

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Ruth Hubbard

Director, Data Product Strategy & Partnerships

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Pablo Vega-Behar

Director, Machine Learning Engineering

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Kyle Kretschman

Director of Research, AI & Economics

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Andrea Occhi

Director, Head of Digital & Data, Americas

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Stanislav Rosenberg

Global Director of Advanced Analytics

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Alex Rosenzweig

Director, Data AI Risk & Controls

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Alix Lacoste

AI Computational Biology Director

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Audrey Ni

Director, AI Product Management

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Jamie Wang

VP, Big Tech and LLM Teams

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