Data and analytics professionals in Water treatment
Water companies account for five of the ten here (Yorkshire Water, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, Thames Water, Yarra Valley Water and South East Water), including two chief data officer titles; the rest work at Xylem, Veolia and Stantec. A call suits decisions on digital metering, operational technology data, urban water system analytics or how a water business should organize its data and governance.
Professionals to explore
Amin Ganjidoost, Ph.D., P.Eng.
LinkedInExperience: Manager, Eng. & DS - North America · Xylem
Urban water systems are what the algorithms and analytics serve in the team of data scientists and hydroinformatics engineers that Amin Ganjidoost, Ph.D., P.Eng. has led as Manager, Eng. & DS - North America at Xylem since 2022. Ganjidoost was Lead Engineer Data Scientist (2022) and Sr. Data Scientist (2018–2022) at Xylem and describes over ten years in data science and decision support, a fit for network analytics questions.
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Chris Catchpole
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data & Analytics Officer · Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water
Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water since 2024, Chris Catchpole has held data and insight titles including Head of Data & Insight at Yell (2022–2023), Group Head of Data & Insight at Landmark Information Group (2019–2022) and Vice President Data & Insight at Ascential (2017–2019). The stated focus is data strategy, governance and architecture, a fit for questions on setting up a water company's data function.
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Dana Aker
LinkedInExperience: Business Intelligence Leader · Veolia | Water Tech
Dana Aker has been Business Intelligence Leader at Veolia | Water Tech since 2024 and was Contracts Program Manager there (2022–2024) and at SUEZ (2020–2022), with product application and sales roles at SUEZ (2017–2020). Aker describes over 17 years in the water industry, specializing in membrane replacement agreements, so can speak to which contract and service data matters for water technology sales.
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Gary Ashby
LinkedInExperience: Head of Insights, Intelligence & Innovation · Yorkshire Water
At Yorkshire Water, Gary Ashby has been Head of Insights, Intelligence & Innovation since 2024, with Enterprise Data Architect & Enterprise Operational Technology Architect (2019–2024), Enterprise Data Architect (2014–2017) and Manager of Operational Technology (2011–2014) roles at the same company. Ashby describes work spanning IoT and big data through infrastructure and digital transformation, which suits questions on joining operational technology and enterprise data.
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John Abrera
LinkedInExperience: Vice President - Operational Analytics Leader · Stantec
John Abrera has been Vice President - Operational Analytics Leader at Stantec since 2021, with National Integrated Digital Applications Leader (2020–2021) and Smart Utility Applications Lead (2018–2020) roles at Brown and Caldwell and VP of Integrated Water Solutions at Stantec (2015–2018). Abrera describes designing big data platform and IoT solutions for water and wastewater utilities from pilot testing to final implementation, a fit for IoT pilot questions.
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Jonathan Crook
LinkedInExperience: Group Manager Analytics and Performance · South East Water
Group Manager Analytics and Performance at South East Water since 2023, Jonathan Crook leads the analytics and performance team in its Digital Utility and notes an accepted digital metering business case. Crook was Digital Utility - Lead Data Scientist (2019–2023) and Engineering Data Specialist (2015–2019) there, and Deputy Program Manager (Data & Analytics) at Intelligent Water Networks (IWN) (2019–2023).
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Lucio D.
LinkedInExperience: Director of Data and Insights - Chief Data Officer · Thames Water
Director of Data and Insights - Chief Data Officer at Thames Water since 2022, Lucio D. has other data leadership titles including Group Data Director at Natura (2021–2022), Global Vice President of Data Services AI Analytics at Wirecard (2018–2020) and Technology Director Connected Workspace at Mitie (2016–2018). Lucio D. describes 20 years of helping organisations understand what their data is worth, a fit for questions on valuing water data.
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Shane Pederson
LinkedInExperience: Former Director, Enterprise Data Strategy and Analytics · Xylem
Since 2026, Shane Pederson has been Director, Enterprise Data Strategy and Analytics at Xylem, and held Lead Enterprise Software Developer (2023–2026), Senior Programmer Analyst, Business Systems (2021–2023) and Programmer Analyst (2019–2021) roles there. Pederson describes 10+ years across software engineering and data architecture and leading the global analytics workstream of an enterprise ERP program, a fit for ERP-era analytics questions.
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Swati Gupta
LinkedInExperience: Head Of Data and Analytics · Yarra Valley Water
Swati Gupta has been Head Of Data and Analytics at Yarra Valley Water since 2022. At RMIT University, Gupta was Senior Manager Business & Data Applications Services (2021–2022) and Business Intelligence Manager (2015–2021), with BI roles at Tata Consultancy Services (2014–2015) and Thomson Reuters (2010–2014). Gupta describes 17+ years in business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics, which fits data platform questions.
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Choose the right perspective
For how to organize data and governance at a water company, Chris Catchpole and Lucio D. hold chief data officer titles, and Swati Gupta and Gary Ashby the other head-of-data or insight seats. Jonathan Crook fits digital metering and network performance; Amin Ganjidoost, Ph.D., P.Eng. and Naveen Agrawal, PhD analytics for water systems and products; John Abrera, Shane Pederson and Dana Aker the IoT pilot, enterprise systems and contracts side.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Which sensor, meter or operational technology data do you trust for treatment and network decisions, and where does it still need manual checks?
- 02How did you build the case for digital metering or an IoT pilot when the data to prove it did not exist yet?
- 03Where do regulatory reporting needs and day-to-day operational analytics pull a water company's data team in different directions?
About this directory
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