Allison Sagraves is the Chief Data Officer for M & T Bank, a new role she assumed in 2015. Allison’s role is to ensure that as one of the most valuable assets, data is actively managed on an enterprise level for its value to be realized to reduce risk, improve quality and efficiency, and drive insight through new sources of value. Allison joined M&T Bank after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1991. During her tenure at M&T Bank, Allison has held leadership roles in many functions – operations management, technology, finance, marketing, and risk. Allison established the Bank’s international outsourcing operations. Prior to obtaining her MBA, Allison worked for American Express, Deloitte, Federal Reserve, and International Paper where she worked in consulting, operations and process improvement, and finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Allison is also a graduate of Smith College, where she was an honors graduate in economics and government. She was a White House Intern, and during her tenure was promoted to be the Assistant Staff Secretary to the President and at age 19 became the youngest member of the White House Staff. Allison wrote a popular blog “Parent Company” about work-life balance. She has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences on such topics as women’s leadership, globalization, and change management. Her talk on “Gravitas: The Leader’s Edge,” was named by Ellevate Network as Best of 2014 for a women’s professional development seminar. In addition, Allison has taught more than 200 emerging leaders in Western New York as a teacher in the Harvard Business School Club of Western New York’s Management Development Program. Allison is involved in several boards. She is the Vice President and Chair of Governance for the Park School of Buffalo; Secretary of the Western New York Harvard Club; and Trustee of CEPA Gallery. Allison is the mother to three young adults, all of whom are native Buffalonians and avid Bills and Sabres fans. Less   View all posts

Cara Dailey serves as Chief Data Officer for Bank of the West, a regional financial services company headquartered in San Francisco. In her role she is focused on the bank’s data strategy to support risk and finance data integration, enterprise data governance and quality program. As a senior financial services executive she has extensive experience leading organizations to leverage their data as a key strategic asset. Over the past several years she has spent her time transforming business processes into innovative solutions driving towards data management and governance practices. In addition to that she is a subject matter expert in risk and regulatory activities such as data aggregation, stress testing, and regulatory reporting strategies. Prior to her role at Bank of The West she was at GE Capital in various leadership roles across technology, concentrating in data management, data quality, and business intelligence. Less   View all posts

Stu Gardos is the Chief Data Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Stu has been at MSK for 20 years and leads a Data Solutions team that consists of Big Data and Business Intelligence architects and developers, software engineers, data scientists and data analysts. Stu is responsible for enterprise wide data delivery, data strategy and BI architecture, as well as data security and data governance for MSK's data warehouse environment. His team is also responsible for the development and training of various self service data applications that are used across MSK for research, operations and clinical care. Less   View all posts

Sankar Balasubramanian is the Chief Data Officer and Senior Vice President at Flagstar Bank, a position he has held since shortly after joining Flagstar in April 2013. In this role, he has created a multi-year Data Modernization strategy for the bank and is in the process of executing it. His significant achievements include standing up and institutionalizing the Data Governance Organization across the Enterprise and creating reporting and analytics for a new line of business. He is responsible for assembling the people, defining the processes, and securing the technology to create an analytics center of excellence. Prior to joining Flagstar, he was consulting at IBM Business Analytics and Optimization practice and had been in strategy and management consulting for the previous 21 years. Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: FBC) is a $13.7 billion savings and loan holding company headquartered in Troy, Mich. Flagstar Bank, FSB, the largest bank headquartered in Michigan, provides commercial, small business, and consumer banking services through 99 branches in the state. It also provides home loans through a wholesale network of brokers and correspondents in all 50 states, as well as through 26 retail locations in 19 states. Flagstar is the 10th largest national originator of mortgage loans and a top 25 mortgage servicer, handling payments and record keeping for nearly $70 billion of home loans for over 340,000 borrowers. For more information, please visit flagstar.com. Less   View all posts