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Sr. Director, Data Advisory at BigID 💡 Know Your Data. Control Your Data. ⇢ Security • Compliance • Privacy • AI Data Management
Contact Stephen Gatchell stephen.gatchell@gmail.com Sr. Director, Data Advisory at BigID Know Your Data. Control Your www.linkedin.com/in/ Data. ⇢ Security • Compliance • Privacy • AI Data Management stephengatchell (LinkedIn) Swampscott, Massachusetts, United States Top Skills Summary Data Advisory Business and technology thought leader and innovator transforming Customer Success business requirements into technical execution and measurable Data Architecture outcomes. Experience across multiple industries from startups to large scale enterprise environments across public and private Certifications domains. Expertise in Security, Privacy and Data Management for ITIL Foundations Certificate in IT Service Management Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Data Literacy and Change Certified Data Monetizer Management. Provide strategic direction and leadership liaising MIT Tackling the Challenges of Big enterprise technology and the business ensuring solutions driving Data product improvements, competitive advantages and operational DevOps: What, Why, and How excellence. Drive data literacy and fluency through mentoring and Developing a High-Performance communities. Own industry relationships developing partnerships Entrepreneur Mindset Nano Tips with Terry Rice ensuring best practices and solutions. Drive development of industry leading frameworks. Honors-Awards Total Customer Experience - People's Choice Award Experience President's Award CTO Innovation Finalist BigID 2 years 7 months Collibra Excellence Award - Program Sr. Director, Data Advisory Patents April 2024 - Present (8 months) Hierarchical value-based Lead the development of BigID’s new industry-leading Advisory Services governance architecture for division executing data, security, and privacy consulting practice. The advisory enterprise data assets services includes industry frameworks and methodologies, best practices of implementation use cases, technical architecture design and portfolio of services. Work closely with BigID’s advisory partners and professional services team to establish efficient knowledge sharing and collaboration on achieving customers ROI on established use cases plus participate in upselling activities. Partner with BigID's go-to-market sales and enablement teams to identify and onboard existing customers for the Advisory Services pipeline. Page 1 of 9

Establish and maintain customer relationships to hit target metrics for Best Practices adoption of BigID’s product offerings. Support BigID's Product Management team on new product features, capabilities and strategic roadmap planning. Share customer feedback and prioritization back to the Product and Sales team. Participate in BigID marketing activities such as speaking in data events, webinars and conferences, writing blogs, white papers and social media. Serve as BigID’s thought leader amongst the data, privacy, security and AI community, industry forums, and professional data organizations. Director of Data Advisory May 2022 - April 2024 (2 years) Boston, Massachusetts, United States Advised prospects, customers, and partners to develop data strategies, define and measure success criteria and help sell the value of the BigID platform. Delivered over 200 advisory meetings at BigID enabling prospect conversions, increasing renewals, and upselling existing customers. Developed artifacts to enable BigID go-to-market sales teams and drive value of the BigID platform. Delivered 20+ Best Practice documents across security, privacy and governance with an increasing adoption rate each month. Drove the BigID Product Management team on new product features, capabilities, and strategic roadmap planning ensuring developing of capabilities that return the greatest value. Member of the Platform, Security, Privacy, and Governance guilds providing insights that cut across the guilds and drive value at the platform level. Created material for BigID's marketing activities including speaking at data events, writing blogs, white papers and posting on social media increasing BigID’s profile and driving industry awareness. Delivered 20+ virtual and in person speaking engagements, driving over 20,000 LinkedIn impressions per quarter, connecting with thousands of data professionals, and generating leads for BigID. Page 2 of 9

Led internal Governance program for BigID to educate and increase adoption of data management execution. Served as BigID’s thought leader in data amongst the data community, industry forums, and professional data organizations. Advised startups as a member of the Boston Innovation Advisory Council. Led defining data products for the EDM Council. Collaborating across 20+ companies to develop a framework to manage data products. Member of invite only team in a collaboration with the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University and Harvard Data Science Initiative to develop Data Literacy thought leadership to be published in 2024. EDM Council Special Interest Group Lead October 2022 - Present (2 years 2 months) The EDM Council is the world's leading data and analytics trade association developing, innovating, and elevating data & analytics management best practices. Leading cross company and cross industry Special Interest Group (SIG) defining and developing Data Products framework including product lifecycle management. Participating across multiple SIGs including Data Sharing Agreements and Analytics. Vation Ventures Boston Innovation Advisory Council May 2020 - Present (4 years 7 months) Advising startups on their products and strategies while having the opportunity to work along industry leaders keeping pace with the ever changing technology marketplace. Bose Corporation Head of Data Enablement April 2018 - March 2022 (4 years) Greater Boston Area Page 3 of 9

Enabled AI, ML and Advanced Analytical execution across Sales, Marketing, Operations and Product Development. Measuring success via Objective and Key Results (OKRs) on critical business questions. Created enterprise data architecture and modeling across siloed divisions focusing on business use cases delivering value while building connected data models for customer and product. Partnered with Privacy, Legal, Information Security, Audit and Compliance teams developing a Data Literacy program customized for multiple persona levels of executives, managers, and individual contributors. Partnered with vendors and startups to develop features and future products for data management. Created Data Enablement team inclusive of business and technical data management skills developing capabilities including data quality, data catalog, data glossary, data architecture, data lineage, data literacy, compliance and policy management. Developed business requirements and productionized tools to drive automation, integration and self-service capabilities including ETL tool, data governance system of record, data profiling, data quality, automated PI identification and data lineage. Developed end-end data management strategy including a ratified Information Assets enterprise standard focusing on data enablement and compliance as well as a metadata system of record (Data Governance Center). Aligned and executed data strategy with the corporate strategy. Created and executing Leadership Data Governance Councils to develop and prioritize key business use cases and member of Architecture Stakeholder Council driving standards across the enterprise. Adoption of Data Governance framework is being executed across 100% of the council data domains. Member of a Portfolio Agile Leadership Team driving prioritization and execution of cross divisional and cross functional work as well as driving maturity of the team improving efficiencies. Dell Page 4 of 9

7 years Enterprise Data Strategist and Chief Data Steward September 2016 - April 2018 (1 year 8 months) Hopkinton, MA Ownership of Enterprise Information Governance Center Architecture and Strategy, Customer and Industry Liaison for Information Governance, and Chief Data Steward for Business Intelligence Center of Excellence Developing Enterprise Information Governance strategy for people, process, and technology including budgeting, road map, resource model, adoption planning and tools Lead cross functional efforts to promote, communicate and train internal teams on the value and goals of Information Governance for an enterprise wide solution Thought leader delivering Enterprise Information Governance and Big Data Solutions to external customers and Industry leading events Identify key Information Assets across Business Intelligent platforms and apply Master Data Management practices across the domains Hierarchical Value-based Governance Architecture patent issued December, 2019 Patent #10521442 Chief Technology Office (CTO) Ambassador working with customers developing technology decisions and developing internal technology architecture Provide mentoring to various levels of the organization from co-ops to analysts and engineers Data Strategist Analytics & Data Lake May 2011 - September 2016 (5 years 5 months) Hopkinton, MA October, 2014 - September, 2016 Ownership of Engineering strategy for Data Lake Architecture, Governance and Operations Page 5 of 9

Execute advanced analytics business value cases providing insight to business decisions and actionable items Lead Innovation team across Engineering Shared Services resulting in over 50 innovative ideas across multiple disciplines CTO Innovator finalist for engineering advanced analytics project Delivered multiple EMC cross functional and federated Big Data and Analytic Summits educating key teams Developed Engineering advanced analytics business value cases, and provide governance framework Subject matter expert and strategic leader for data analytics and governance model practices including industry white paper Developed and executed Total Customer Experience award winning strategy around Data Lake and Governance Collaborate with the Chief Data Governance Officer on strategy and execution across the organization Dell Integration Ambassador providing key input into employee sentiment, mentoring employees during transition and change, and providing communication around key initiatives May, 2011 - October, 2014 Sr. Manager, Engineering Managed an International large scale multi-lab operation and Business Services group Increased virtualization within the labs resulting in over $2M in measurable run rate savings Transformed support from a ticket driven team to a solution oriented team reducing Quality Engineering and Development time to resolution, reducing release cycles and improving Total Customer Experience Page 6 of 9

Structured Business Services around tools, processes and reporting bringing strategic projects to closure while delivering timely and valuable data to support tactical and strategic decision making Led operational excellence programs across procurement and asset management work streams reducing costs, improving asset utilization and improving vendor management MÄK Technologies Sr. Business Systems Analyst May 2010 - May 2011 (1 year 1 month) Cambridge, MA Developed corporate strategy, managed and implemented worldwide business systems Created a 3-year plan achieving revenue growth targets Implemented accounting process resolving corporate auditing findings Selected and implemented HRIS, Payroll and Licensing systems to support the corporate growth rate IBM Information Systems Executive, North America IT/IS and Global IS Projects July 2008 - September 2009 (1 year 3 months) Led worldwide Telelogic financial and information system’s integrations and conversions. Managed IT/IS staff Analyzed, revised and implemented alternate solutions for existing IBM processes ensuring projects and programs were delivered on-time and on- budget throughout the integration phase Developed and managed integrations and conversions, on a worldwide basis from Telelogic enterprise systems to IBM enterprise systems including hardware, software and business processes Telelogic VP, IT/IS March 2006 - July 2008 (2 years 5 months) Page 7 of 9

Led worldwide mission critical Information Technology and System conversions. Managed IT/IS staff Reduced Telecom expenses by 25% and hosting facilities costs by 100% Converted Epicor financials to Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta) reducing maintenance cost, administrative costs, report creation development time and month-end closing cycles Provided infrastructure to support customer continuity, revenue activities and key business support systems I-Logix VP, Enterprise Systems and Operations July 1999 - March 2006 (6 years 9 months) Sr. Management team focusing on the development of enterprise systems. Managed IT/IS staff Participated in the acquisition, due diligence and integration of a European distributor doubling country revenues with no voluntary terminations and zero integration issues Developed and presented strategy to the board as a member of senior management team ensuring management and board alignment, executing on revenue generation strategy and product development Implemented a full life-cycle lead to order integration process tripling sales productivity and improving customer data integrity Eliminated IT consulting expenses by retraining and redeploying existing IT staff Implemented a Sales Force Automation system resulting in an accurate forecasting system providing advanced analysis for decision making and an Epicor Financial system reducing the accounting closings from 8 to 2 days Cass Information Systems Sr. Analyst/Project Manager June 1994 - July 1999 (5 years 2 months) Page 8 of 9

Wrote formal specifications and proposals. Managed and implemented technical solutions to Fortune 500 clients Bank of Boston Sr. Account Administrator May 1987 - June 1994 (7 years 2 months) Managed Fortune 500 accounts for Freight Payables solving escalations and identifying sales opportunities Education Southern New Hampshire University MBA, Business Management and MIS Northeastern University Bachelor's of Science, Business Administration Northeastern University Associate in Science, Finance Page 9 of 9
