David Wright

• Mobilizes data operations while supporting numerous investment management firms and internal bank functions for BNY Mellon Data & Platform Solutions, a bank sponsored fintech.
• Treats data as an asset and delivers it as a product to help clients optimize their investment strategy through industrialized data supply channels, operations and engineering.
• Contributed to short- and long-term business planning sessions and provided direction to convey business goals and direction.
• Leads 25+ direct and 100+ indirect data leaders and community members to achieve optimal productivity.
• Provides data and product related intellectual and commercial thought leadership.
• Partners with product managers and technologists to enable a robust data supply chain.
• Strives to create an integrated and seamless internal and external client product experience.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to identify and manage commercial data suppliers.
• Strengthens Data and Platform Solutions best practice and governance capability while partnering with the firm-wide CDO.
• Identifies, reviews and evaluates data management metrics to recommend ways to strengthen data across enterprise.
• Spearheads over 50 data related third-party contract negotiations to obtain favorable pricing, delivery and scheduling parameters.
• Shapes solutions and approaches by leveraging trends in customer marketplaces and industries.
• Oversees business-wide changes to modernize procedures and organization.
• Performs root-cause analysis on data-related system problems to recommend or execute corrective action.
• Manages key tasks and resources to achieve cost, schedule and strategic growth initiatives.
• Facilitates the analysis of large amounts of data to identify trends and find patterns, signals and hidden stories within data.
• Drafts business case development through research and data collection.
• Evaluates trends to understand competitive environments and assess current strategies.

• Advanced data strategy and innovation including architecture, governance and integrity for Commerzbank AG, a major European financial institution.
• Covered local and global touchpoints from front office, customer on-boarding, and transaction processing, to data analytics, compliance, risk, finance and other critical functions.
• Improved data supply chains across data sourcing, warehousing, processes, systems and architecture to support key analytics and data consumption by delivering data as a product using agile methodologies.
• Led direct and indirect data community focused on driving data related change.
• Translated business need and value proposition into data, technology strategy and product development.
• Oversaw general framework to enable data strategy, ownership, architecture, metadata and business rule capture, assessment of controls and identification of issues.
• Enabled data as a product through data ingestion, curation, provisioning and consumption.
• Transformed data management, usability, operations and access through key technology, architecture and products.
• Managed and/or influence 100+ people within the senior leadership as well as across the data and technology community.
• Brokered processes, people and systems to impose a holistic data and technology strategy.
• Built a data based culture and drive innovation.
• Developed business glossaries, data dictionaries and business rule libraries for customer, account, and transactional data.
• Developed data quality framework to enable rules and issue management.
• Worked with regulators and third party assessors to provide updates and address concerns.

• Established a data framework (spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia) founded on a governance and quality covering organizational structure, business and data principles, data and technical architecture, data cataloging, data quality validations and business intelligence.
• Led 75+ direct team members and 100+ indirect data community members.
• Improved the data infrastructure for data sourcing and pushing key data into the financial services and capital markets, the framework covered aspects of data strategy for reference, ratings and financial data including data operations.
• Established a data ecosystem to improve the ability to find, define and understand data as well as reduce risk and reinforce data integrity using industry best practice and accepted platforms & structures.
• Oversaw data quality controls and measures, handled data inquiries as well as managed a consortium of federated stewards providing business expertise while establishing definitions, structure, controls and measures.
• Constructed data quality framework to enable data profiling, rules and exception management as well as govern and automate controls and measures.
• Partnered with major technology engineering and development programs including cloud migration and product development to employ the proper overlay of data and technology architecture.
• Oversaw federated model for stewards and technology partners creating data architecture, definitions, structure, controls and measures for over 35,000 financial market data elements including Reference, Ratings and Financial information.
• Redefined and led a Data Quality Team conducting preventive and holistic quality measures, KPIs, analytics and insight including relocation to Hyderabad while reducing headcount by 35 percent.
• Expanded form and function of a Data Inquiry and Analytics team addressing key content areas and reporting needs for internal customers.
• Assessed Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence platforms and uses to drive analytics and modernize data management processes and framework.
• Assured technology architects incorporated data elements into logical and physical data models including assessing impacts to enterprise architecture.
• Advised major programs, as well as product and technology, on instituting data governance and quality controls using common guidelines, principles and framework.
• Engaged with internal customers (i.e. analysts, modelers, data scientists) for requirements and feedback to advance the data strategy.
• Partnered with Cross Divisional Chief Data Officers and Functions (i.e. commercial, compliance, risk, info security, human resources, internal business control), to drive enterprise governance strategy including application of policy and regulation such as GDPR.
  

Strategically engineered, implemented and led data related practices for over 18 years leveraging collaborative and innovative approaches. Details outlined in career progression below.

• Partnered with Global Data Management organization and all respective CDOs to drive a structured reference data framework to be leveraged by Corporate and all lines of business.
• Enabled data operations by defining data assets including the data architecture while improving controls across customer data, human resource data (employee & non-employee), vendor data, clearing house, instrument, product, prices and rates, financial reference data, and other enterprise reference (currency, calendar) data.
• Refined and executed enterprise data management operating models & tools for governance and quality.
• Led team, partnering with divisional CDOs, Domain Executives and Stewards, cataloging 10,000+ data assets, related controls & strategies.
• Partnered with global and divisional CDOs as well as technology architects to incorporate data into enterprise logical & physical data models as well as assessed enterprise system architecture impacts.
• Created, published and drove adoption of enterprise Data Management policies, standards & procedures with emphasis to Reference & Master Data.

• Identified, strategized and built sustainable structures that established the framework for driving data management across JPMorgan's head office and its lines of business including initial global CDO functions, surrounding standards and governance through partnership across the line of business CAOs and CDOs.
• Developed global data management strategy and launched Chief Data Office including purpose, functions, standards, governance, and scope through partnerships with senior leaders.
• Organized the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer structure for Global Reference Data.
• Identified and remediated enterprise quality data issues through root-cause analysis, strategy development and execution including issues with inconsistent industry assignment, instrument and issuer misclassification, as well as the development of an enterprise product taxonomy.
• Identified data requirements and established standards for Finance & Risk Acquisition team.

• Drove integrated program execution across critical global Finance / Risk regulatory and strategic initiatives.
• Partnered with various large-scale project teams led both centrally and decentrally across the firm and established global architecture and data management strategy including long term benefits to regulatory and internal reporting (i.e. market risk, credit risk, international regulatory, and financial reporting).
• Led projects, analysts and LOB partners to generate structure and governance including cross program views and requirements in annual budget cycles.
• Collaborated with regulatory programs such as CCAR, Basel, Resolution & Recovery, BCBS and other critical programs to generate common strategy, prioritization and execution models.

• Led global finance and accounting related initiatives including global general ledger condensing, business consolidations, legal entity mergers, as well as significant architecture changes across JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Managed scope, prioritization and management of over 25 parallel programs including standard release schedules and budgets of various platforms.
• Partnered with line of business financial and technical teams to understand and organize the firm’s dependent processes and systems while collapsing from seven to five lines of business.

• Managed a team partnering with operations, technology, and lines of business to drive projects to completion including the transition to operations.
• Partnered with key stakeholders from global locations and all lines of business to implement international finance projects including overseas general ledger integration, legal entity mergers, expense management strategy, country & regional reporting, global liquidity, finance platform integrations, as well as SAP ERP software enhancements.

• Global Finance Production Support Manager - Led a team of 10 and partnered with the broader Global Finance & Technology organization to ensure that the Finance Reference Data Infrastructure was functioning appropriately while being the Financial Reference Data platform product owner. Transitioned functions to the new Financial Reference Data Production, Compliance, and Client Support Group while also helping expand other global hub locations. Resolved issues quickly to maintain productivity goals.
• Production and Quality Management Consultant - As part of a specialized internal consulting team charged with partnering with various functional organizations to develop tools for reporting, and analysis of critical strategic finance, production & quality metrics used to measure and improve performance, identified, presented, and oversaw implementation of improvement opportunities, such as end-to-end process design, corporate mergers, system migrations, and conversions. Managed budgets for cross departments with over 150 people and many products and services.
• Asset Wealth Management Operations Manager - managed team of 25 responsible for all cash related commercial products for personal, institutional and corporate customers within the asset management business. The products covered outgoing wires, incoming wires, ACH, checks, as well as cash settlement. Managed or supported large-scale projects including cash position forecasting, bank conversions, system enhancements and process integration. Organized work to meet demanding production goals. Documented production information via daily system logs and discussed issues with management.