VP, Chief Evangelist

Actian

Ole Olesen-Bagneux is a globally recognized thought leader in metadata management and enterprise data architecture. As VP, Chief Evangelist at Actian, he drives industry awareness and adoption of modern approaches to data intelligence, drawing on his extensive expertise in data management, metadata, data catalogs, and decentralized architectures.

An accomplished author, Ole has written The Enterprise Data Catalog (O'Reilly, 2023). He is currently working on Fundamentals of Metadata Management (O'Reilly, 2025), introducing a novel metadata architecture known as the Meta Grid. With a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Copenhagen, his unique perspective bridges traditional information science with modern data management.

Before joining Actian, Ole served as Chief Evangelist at Zeenea, where he played a key role in shaping and communicating the company's technology vision. His industry experience includes leadership roles in enterprise architecture and data strategy at major pharmaceutical companies like Novo Nordisk. Ole is passionate about scalable metadata architectures, knowledge graphs, and enabling organizations to make data truly discoverable and usable.

Chief Product Officer

Actian

Guillaume Bodet serves as Chief Product Officer for Actian, where he is responsible for defining and driving the data management and intelligence product vision, strategy, and roadmaps. Guillaume brings over 15 years of experience in the data industry, spanning various domains including project management, infrastructure, architecture, innovation, machine learning, and analytics. His deep understanding of data challenges, coupled with his entrepreneurial drive, fuels his passion for building market-leading products. Prior to Actian, Guillaume co-founded and served as CPTO of Zeenea, a data catalog company that Actian acquired in 2024, where he honed his expertise in product leadership and development 

Director of Data & AI 

British Gas

Chief Data Officer with +15 years’ experience driving the provision of data for value creation and setting data strategies in the finance, investment, insurance, and healthcare sectors.

As subject matter expert in data solution implementation, I find and deliver innovations and opportunities to improve the use of data within organisations, establish best practice for 'single source of the truth' data and KPI definitions across organisations and interpret and manipulate data to build BI data models in an Agile/Scrum environment.

An evangelist of information as an asset and a passionate promoter of ongoing team development, coaching BI, Data Governance and Quality teams to improve performance. I am currently completing an Executive MBA with Aston University as part of my own continuing professional development.

As an advisor for NHS Improvement’s global ‘Making Data Count’ network, I have successfully influenced use of automated data analysis to improve patient outcomes in healthcare organisations.

Global Head of Data Office

Schroders

A data evangelist and practical hands on leader. Held a series of senior data roles and have delivered data transformations , built data teams and data operating models and have a track record of innovation and leadership. A specialist in data strategy, data maturity, data literacy, data analytics, data tools, data science and data governance. Because of this experience I am a sought after speaker on the international circuit and I am regularly published and interviewed about data and innovation.

Co-author of four best selling 'data' books:
‘The Chief Data Officer's Playbook’ (1st & 2nd editions)
‘Data Driven Business Transformation’
‘Halo Data’

Co-founder of the CDO Summer School which now has 1200+ international alumni.
Board member of The Boston Institute of Analytics.
Advisor to The Football Association.

Chief Analytics Officer

By Rotation

VP and Information Governance Expert

Statnett SF

Extensive experience from the power sector in various roles. DAMA Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP). Product owner/team lead for Statnett’s Enterprise Data Catalog team.

Head of Data Governance and Information Architecture

Statnett SF

Experienced Enterprise Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in transforming Business Strategy and Needs into IT Strategy, Digital Solutions and Information Models. With technical background from SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Databases, Data Warehousing, and .NET Framework. Strong information technology professional graduated from Pace University, NY.