Enterprise SaaS
10 heads of data in Enterprise SaaS
These ten executives have held chief data officer or head of data titles at software companies, some combined with analytics or AI responsibilities. A reader can learn how SaaS data leaders organize data teams, build data platforms and support product, go-to-market and AI work.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anahita Tafvizi
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data & AI Officer · Snowflake
Chief Data & AI Officer at Snowflake since January 2024, where the profile says she leads Snowflake's Data & Applied AI organization, spanning product management, engineering and data science. She was Vice President, Data Science & Business Operations at Instacart (2021–2024) and has been an Advisor at Lightspeed since 2026.
Brandon Tucker
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · ZoomInfo
Chief Data Officer at ZoomInfo since October 2019; the profile describes ZoomInfo as a B2B database providing contact data combined with sales intelligence, engagement software and workflow tools. He was Sr. Manager, Data Strategy at DiscoverOrg (2017–2019) and Manager, Research Operations at RainKing Solutions (2012–2017).
Carrie Cobb
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · Blackbaud
Chief Data Officer at Blackbaud (2022–2025) and Chief Data & AI Officer there since 2025, a role in which the profile says she leads enterprise-wide transformation. Her other Blackbaud roles include Vice President Head of Data Intelligence (2020–2022), Vice President, Data Science (2017–2020) and Director of Operations & Analytic Development (2013–2017); the profile describes Blackbaud as a software company.
Chris Byington
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data · Superhuman
Head of Data at Superhuman since July 2025, where the profile says he leads data for the Mail business unit and notes that Superhuman was acquired by Grammarly in July 2025. He was Head of Analytics at Superhuman Mail (2024–2025), and at Updater he was Vice President of Data (2019–2023) and Director of Analytics (2017–2019).
Doug Fearing
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · Teamworks
Chief Data Officer at Teamworks since August 2024; the profile describes Teamworks as an operating system for high performance powering more than 7,000 sports teams and military organizations. He was Co-Founder & CEO of Zelus Analytics (2019–2024) and Director, Baseball Research and Development at the Los Angeles Dodgers (2015–2018).
Gal Zohar
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer & Head of Skai Labs · Skai
Chief Data Officer & Head of Skai Labs at Skai since December 2024; the profile describes Skai as a software company offering an omnichannel marketing platform with data-driven marketing intelligence, connected media and measurement technology. He was VP Solutions Development at Skai (2019–2024) and VP Technology Services at Kenshoo (2017–2019).
Jonny Carroll
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data and Analytics Officer · Pipedrive
Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Pipedrive since October 2025; the profile describes Pipedrive as a sales CRM and pipeline management software company and cites scaling AI and data there. At Expedia Group he was Vice President of Product Management - Platform and Data (2025), Vice President, Analytics - Product and Technology (2022–2025) and Vice President, Product Analytics, Experimentation & BI Platforms (2020–2022).
Lacey Lloyd
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data · BigPanda
Former Head of Data at BigPanda (2021–2025), which the profile describes as an AI-powered IT operations and incident management software company. She was Director of Data Science at C1 (2018–2021), Senior Data Scientist at AppLabs (2015–2018) and Principal Data Scientist at Cisco (2013–2015).
Michael Andrew
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · Salesforce
Chief Data Officer at Salesforce since May 2025; the profile headline describes delivering enterprise intelligence to humans and AI agents with trusted context, signals and infrastructure. His other Salesforce roles include SVP & GM, Marketing Automation, Data, & Messaging (2024–2025), SVP Data Science Analytics, Algorithms, Automation, Engineering, Platforms, Operations (2022–2024) and VP, Data Science Marketing Decision Science Group (2021–2022).
Vishnu Shankar
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · Draup
Chief Data Officer at Draup since April 2026, where the profile says he is spearheading data strategy and platform innovation for Draup, which it describes as AI-powered sales and talent intelligence. His other Draup roles include Vice President - Platform (2024–2026), Director (2022–2023) and Associate Director (2020–2022).
Choose the right perspective
Match the company stage and data role to yours, since running data at a large public software company differs from building a first data team at a growth-stage company. For product and AI questions, favor people whose titles or notes include AI or platform work, and for internal analytics questions, favor those focused on analytics and data teams.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you split data team resources between internal analytics, product data features and AI work?
- 02Which data platform and governance choices would you make again, and which would you change?
- 03How do you show the business value of the data team to executives and the board?
About this directory
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