E440 Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at Thoughtspot

Today's guest is Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at Thoughtspot & host of The Data Chief podcast. Founded in 2012, ThoughtSpot is an AI-Powered Analytics company with the mission to create a more fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform. ThoughtSpot enables everyone within an organization to limitlessly engage with live data in any popular cloud data platform, making it easy to create and interact with granular, hyper-personalized and actionable insights.

Cindi is an analytics and BI thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology. Cindi advises top clients on data strategy and best practices to becoming data- driven, and influences ThoughtSpot’s product strategy. She was previously a Gartner research Vice President, as the lead author for the data and analytics maturity model and analytics, and BI Magic Quadrant. She introduced new research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search and augmented analytics, and brought both the BI bake offs and innovation panels to Gartner globally.

In the episode, Cindi will talk about:

How Thoughtspot are driving a fact-driven world,

Four aspects to her role as Chief Data Strategy Officer,

How they help organizations embrace data,

The working culture at Thoughtspot,

What excites her for the future at Thoughtspot, and

The mission of her Data Chief podcast