Dennis Kessler
Global Head of Data Governance, Amazon GREF
Principal
Passionate about establishing and strengthening data governance and data management in complex international organisations. Frequently invited subject-matter expert speaker and chair of international conferences and seminars on data governance, analytics and financial data management.Profiled in ”Information Governance World Magazine” Oct 2019
Dennis has worked in international financial information systems, enterprise content management, information management and data governance for many years. He has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Osaka and Basel (Switzerland), before relocating to Luxembourg to serve as the Head of Data Governance at the European Investment Bank (EIB), the public-sector financing arm of the EU and the world’s largest multilateral lending institution.
Dennis is passionate about improving the way organisations value and treat their data. He has rich experience in building and strengthening data governance teams and establishing a data culture across complex organisations.
More than just establishing policies and standards, this work focuses on driving awareness among every level of staff, especially senior management, that managing and governing data as an asset means everyone has to treats it as a precious resource. Ensuring data quality is a responsibility of every person who touches an organisation’s data in any way – a critical success factor in shifting to a more data-aware culture.
Dennis is a regular chair and keynote speaker of various European data and analytics conferences. He is a proud invited member of the governing board of the Certified Information Governance Officer (CIGO) Association, and was included in the ‘2020 Global Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics’ list by Corinium Global Intelligence.