10 heads of data in Electric utilities
Utility data offices take different shapes in this group of electric utility heads of data: EDF and E.ON each have two data chiefs, Iberdrola's i-DE has a Chief Data & Analytics Officer, and Tennessee Valley Authority's CDO title adds analytics and AI, alongside CDOs at Austin Energy and EnBW, a former Alliander CDO and a Head of Data & Analytics at Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. That spread helps a utility deciding what its own data office should own.
Professionals to explore
David Jez
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · E.ON CZ
At E.ON CZ, where David Jez has been Chief Data Officer since November 2022, the work has been building and leading a centralized data team covering data engineering, analytics, governance and reporting as a unified business and IT function; Jez is based in Prague. Jez was Data Engineering Manager (2019–2022), Principal BI DWH Developer (2017–2019) and Business Data Analyst (2015–2017) at Avast and Junior DataWarehouse Specialist at ING Česká republika (2013–2015).
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Elisabeth Kervella
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · EDF
Elisabeth Kervella has been Chief Data Officer at EDF since June 2021, based in Montrouge, France, and their LinkedIn profile places the role on the IPN scope within EDF ("CDO sur le périmètre IPN"). As one of two EDF data officers here, Kervella fits questions on how a chief data officer's remit is drawn around one part of a utility group rather than the whole company.
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Isabelle Gore
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer EDF Hydro et architecte d'entreprise · EDF
Hydro generation data is the subject for Isabelle Gore, who has held Chief Data Officer EDF Hydro et architecte d'entreprise at EDF since April 2018, combining the hydro CDO role with enterprise architecture. Gore was also Chef de projet BI (2010–2012) and Ingénieur chercheur (1997–2010) at EDF, Chef de projet at BULL (1995–1997) and Ingénieur en Intelligence Artificielle at EDIAT (1991–1995).
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Javier Ontañón Ruiz
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data & Analytics Offices (CDAO) i-DE (grupo Iberdrola) · Iberdrola
Heading the data management team (Equipo de Gestión del Dato), Javier Ontañón Ruiz has held Chief Data & Analytics Offices (CDAO) i-DE (grupo Iberdrola) at Iberdrola since February 2022. Ontañón was also Global Smart Grids. Head of Control Systems (2019–2025) and Smart Grid Operation Systems Head of Service (2017–2019) at Iberdrola, and has taught electrical engineering at Universidad Nebrija since 2019.
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Jessica Baker
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director Enterprise Data, Analytics, and AI Chief Data Officer (CDO) · Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority has had Jessica Baker as Sr. Director Enterprise Data, Analytics, and AI Chief Data Officer (CDO) since June 2025. Baker's other TVA titles are Director, Enterprise Transformation (2024–2025), Director, External Strategy & Performance (2021–2024), Director, Supply Chain Asset Management & Material Operations (2017–2021) and Sr. Manager, Generation Business Operations (2016–2017).
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Lora McCay
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data & Analytics · Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
Since October 2025, Lora McCay has been Head of Data & Analytics at Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. At SSE plc, McCay was Head of Data Operations Integrated Data Ecosystem Digitalisation & Scalable Multi-Cloud (2022–2026) and Head of Data & Analytics Portfolio Data-Centric Strategy Cultural Transformation (2018–2022), and was Regulatory Change Management Lead EMIR & MiFID II at IG Group (2017–2018).
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Menno Kroes
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer Alliander · Alliander
Menno Kroes was Chief Data Officer Alliander from 2022 to 2026, responsible for developing, implementing and controlling data governance and data management processes, models, regulations, vision and strategy. Since April 2026 Kroes has held Data, Digital & AI DSO European affairs CDO Office NL at Alliander, and was Chief Data Officer Fudura (2020–2022) and Senior Manager Data & Analytics at EY (2018–2019).
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Mike Turner, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · Austin Energy
Creating value from the organization's data assets and external data ecosystem is the remit of Mike Turner, MBA, Chief Data Officer at Austin Energy since June 2023, after Program Manager, Corporate Quality Services there (2020–2023). Turner was Quality Assurance Division Manager at Austin Resource Recovery Center (2014–2020), which makes data quality questions a good fit.
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Milan Kopáček
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer EG.D · E.ON
Based in Budweis, Czechia, Milan Kopáček has been Chief Data Officer EG.D at E.ON since March 2021, also described as Head of Data Management & Data Governance. Kopáček's earlier E.ON titles were Head of Performance Management (2016–2021), Senior technical controller (2012–2015) and Trainee (2011–2012), a fit for data governance questions inside a utility group.
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Rainer Hoffmann
LinkedInExperience: Former Chief Data Officer (Director and Group Expert Data & Analytics) · EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
Rainer Hoffmann was Chief Data Officer (Director and Group Expert Data & Analytics) at EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG from 2023 to 2026 and since September 2026 has been Director Data & AI Factory Chief Data Officer there. Hoffmann also held Head of Data and Analytics Excellence (2022–2023), Senior Manager Digital Transformation - Data & AI (2018–2022) and Project Manager Product Owner Algorithmic Trading (2016–2018) at EnBW.
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Choose the right perspective
Grid and network data questions fit Javier Ontañón Ruiz, Menno Kroes and Lora McCay, while Isabelle Gore (EDF Hydro) and Jessica Baker, whose TVA roles include generation business operations, suit generation data. Data governance and team setup fit Milan Kopáček and David Jez, and Mike Turner suits data quality; Rainer Hoffmann covers data and AI at EnBW, and Elisabeth Kervella a CDO scope drawn around one part of EDF.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Should a utility's data office sit with IT, operations or the executive team, and does the answer differ for grid and generation data?
- 02How do you assign ownership of smart meter and grid operation data across network, customer and regulatory teams?
- 03Which data and AI use cases should a utility CDO fund first among asset maintenance, outage response, customer service and regulatory reporting?
About this directory
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