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Sunil Soares

Data Expert - Valuation

Data governance and monetization expert, Sunil Soares is the Founder and CEO of YourDataConnect, a SaaS-enabled data monetization platform that helps companies manage their data value chain more effectively1. He is also an author, a speaker, and an advisor on data-related topics

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Data Valuation & Governance

Sunil Soares has over a decade of experience in the data governance field, having worked at IBM and Information Asset before starting his own company. He has worked with hundreds of clients across six continents and multiple industries, such as banking, insurance, life sciences, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas, and healthcare. Some of his notable achievements include:

  • Developing the Data Monetization Index (DMI), a methodology that estimates a company’s data value using publicly available information and industry-specific models
  • Writing several books on data governance, data quality, big data governance, and data monetization
  • Speaking at various conferences and events, such as DATAVERSITY, MIT CDOIQ Symposium, and DAMA International

Sunil Soares is passionate about helping organizations leverage their data assets for strategic advantage. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union.

Data Monetization

Data monetization is a cross-functional discipline that draws from best practices in enterprise data management (EDM), technology, legal engineering, and finance to leverage data to increase revenues, reduce costs, and manage risk. EDM programs have generally found it extremely difficult to get senior management buy-in in the absence of regulatory pressures or the fear of a data breach. Data monetization is an approach to drive quantifiable business benefits from data and information. This bottom-line-driven approach is key to generating business adoption with stakeholders. This book provides a step-by-step guide to data monetization.

The Chief Data Officer Handbook

The relatively new role of chief data officer (CDO) has been created to address the issue of managing a company’s data as a strategic asset, but the problem is that there is no universally accepted “playbook” for this role. Magnifying the challenge is the rapidly increasing volume and complexity of data, as well as regulatory compliance as it relates to data. In this book, Sunil Soares provides a practical guide for today’s chief data officers to manage data as an asset while delivering the trusted data required to power business initiatives, from the tactical to the transformative. The guide describes the relationship between the CDO and the data governance team.