About EDM Council

John Bottega is the President of the EDM Council. He began working with the Council as an industry contributor in 2005 and served as Chairman from 2007 to 2014. He joined the Council’s executive team as a Senior Advisor in 2014 and took over as the Chief Executive in 2017.

John is a senior strategy and data management executive with more than 40 years of experience in the industry. Over his career, John has served as Chief Data Officer in both the private and public sectors, serving as CDO for Citi and Bank of America, as well as for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and head of data management for the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR).

Mark joined the Council in 2017 and is currently Chief Technology Officer. In this capacity, Mark works with council members, staff and our partners to apply innovative technologies in support of the council’s focus areas. His recent accomplishments include the successful launch of the council’s new web platform – EDMConnect.

Prior to joining the Council, Mark was the Chief Operating Officer of the GoldenSource Corporation for 10 years. He has also held numerous senior management positions in technology, operations and general management spanning both private and public companies

Carole has managed the operational support of the EDM Council business and its member firms, since 2008.

In January 2022 Carole established our Member Support Service team, responsible for ensuring that the EDM Council members get the support they require and value from their membership.

Kyle is a passionate data evangelist, sales executive and industry speaker focused on developing global business & sales strategies and driving revenue in the exploding data management marketplace. Kyle’s data management journey started eleven years ago with the EDM Council as an original team member that built and launched the Data Management Maturity Model (DMM) with Carnegie Mellon/SEI and has continued with the DMM through the CMMI Institute and ISACA. Over the last six years Kyle has been engaged with CMMI Institute/ISACA driving the global strategy and sales for the DMM, CMMI and Medical Device Discovery Appraisal Program (MDDAP) product lines. Prior to his data focus, Kyle has a successful track record of building and leading profitable public and private commercial professional services organizations specialized in the IT consulting, staffing, and recruiting industry ranging from start-ups to $80 M.

Kyle is the founder of the Data Excellence Group, a data management advisory firm.

Jim Halcomb is Head of Product Management for the EDM Council. He is a strategy, data management, and cybersecurity executive with 30 years of international business experience.

Jim has worked with the Council since its inception in 2005, eventually leading the initial research and development of the DCAM from late 2011 to 2014.

Jan Kroh has 30 years of professional experience in the management consulting (strategy formulation and implementation), business development, acquisitions, alignment, integration and transformation of business organizations, complex program and project delivery – including systems integration, and more recently – development and implementation of business and operating strategies as well as sales.

Eric Bigelsen is a leader in Sales, Business Development, Product Management, Strategy, and Marketing with a successful career that spans over 30 years. He helps financial institutions manage risk, make better trading and investment decisions, and improve operational efficiency, including regulatory compliance, through the use of data, research, analytic tools, and technology solutions. He has held senior-level positions at Moody’s Investors Service, Fitch Solutions, Cube Content Governance, and SmartStream Reference Data Utility. He has a proven ability to identify opportunities, develop new relationships, develop products and services, lead successful teams, and execute strategies in established and new markets that lead to significant revenue generation, growth, and client satisfaction.

Mr. Bigelsen also has a successful consulting company, Infinity Resource Group, where he advises companies on sales, business development, marketing, and corporate finance strategies. He serves on the Board of Directors of several organizations including a spirits company, Fortaleza Tequila, and a pediatric cancer research foundation, WOLF. He lives in Brick, NJ with his wife of 33 years, and has three daughters.

Nana is the Executive Administrator supporting the Council’s President and Co-Founder, Mike Meriton and John Bottega. Nana has over 10 years of experience as an Executive Assistant and previously worked at Blackstone for 5 years.

Robert Rummel provides account management and sales services for all USA EDM Council members and prospective members. Robert has over 20 years experience of providing similar services to the financial markets industry

Paul is the Canadian Regional Advocate for the Enterprise Data Management Council. He has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry as a trusted partner and catalyst for change in supporting complex, transformational initiatives that are underpinned by well designed and governed data management processes.

Paul is based in Toronto where he works as an independent consultant through Maple Peak Group Inc. He also serves on the Canadian Regulatory Technology Association's Board of Directors. Paul assists the EDM Council on a part-time basis providing on the ground support to our Canadian membership.

Andrew Chmaj has a background in finance, initially from 10 years working in treasury/capital markets at Chemical Bank, First Chicago and Nomura, trading foreign exchange and currency options as well as marketing them to major fund managers and corporates in Europe.

Subsequently, he spent 25 years in various roles at Moody’s, where he headed European sales of research and data products and built relationships with major UK and continental European investors. Andrew is based in London.

Preeti is the Regional Advocate for India. She has 20 years of pan India and Overseas experience in business development, strategic alliance, customer relationship and training in various industries ranging from IT & ITES, Finance, Education, Startup & Skills Ecosystem.

Preeti is supporting the Council with membership activities and bringing high-quality data management best practices, training and eLearning certification programs to the Indian region.

David is the Regional Advocate and evangelist for the Asia Pacific (APAC) Region. David has over 20 years of enterprise solutions and data management experience supporting Financial Institutions and Large Enterprises cross Industry.

David is based in Singapore and will assist the EDM Council on a part-time basis with membership activities and initiatives in the APAC region.

Stephen is a Regional Advocate for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Southern Europe and South Africa.
He has over 30 years of experience in sales and marketing having worked firstly in Financial Services with the FT/AP Dow Jones News Wires and Dow Jones. Latterly he has had senior sales positions in data technology with focus on launching new services in the Data Governance and Legal technology markets.

Stephen is based in the UK and will assist the EDM Council on a part time basis with membership and initiatives in his region

Peter is a Senior Advocate for the Government/Public Sector.
Peter has 20+years of leadership experience in enterprise technology solutions in the Government/Public Sector. He has led successful sales teams in organizations such as Equifax, Appriss, Monster Government Solutions, Integic/Northrop Grumman, Teradata Corporation, and Oracle Corporation.

Denise is a senior Member Support Manager with the EDM Council, her focus it to fully engage with the council members supporting organisations to advance their data programs. She has previously held various roles in supporting organization’s data strategy and data implementation objectives. Denise has worked in Client Training, Specialist Sales and Customer Service roles always with a data focus, she brings a wealth of experience providing excellent customer support and relationship management to her role.

Alex focuses on supporting the engagement of the EDM Council global members for the Americas. She brings 8+ years of experience across information technology, retail, and construction industry, along with a comprehensive understanding of customer service, communication, technical issue resolution, process improvement, and customer support best practices.

Stella Cabrera is a leading expert on risk management, data, and compliance with over 20 years of experience in the financial services and technology sectors. Stella is a sought-after advisor to senior leadership teams in banking and FinTech, providing strategic guidance on navigating the ever-evolving regulatory landscape.

Stella is currently the Risk and Compliance Practice Lead at Jarvis IT Consulting, where she has built a successful practice from the ground up. Stella is a strong advocate for the industry, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Risk Management Association (RMA) as Chairman. Stella's deep industry connections and proven ability to deliver results make her a trusted partner to clients across the globe.

Michaela is a Member Services Manager with the EDM Council. Her primary responsibility is to engage with members and provide support within the Asia Pacific region. She brings years of experience in delivering excellent customer service with focus on data management, industry compliance, and data quality from her background in the Financial Services industry.

Sadie is a part of the EDM council member support team. Sadie is responsible for offering support to member organizations, training administration and support with billing and invoices.

Prior to joining the Council Sadie worked in the financial services for eight years.

Rob Wentz is a Senior Advisor of Product Management for the EDM Council. He began working with the Council in 2014 as a vendor contributor and KPMGs Executive sponsor, data evangelist and DCAM Authorized Partner leader until joining the Council in 2023.

Previously, Rob was a senior practice leader and executive with over 35 years of experience advising his Fortune 1000 clients in sustainable data management and advanced analytics programs. Over his advisory career, Rob has served clients in both private and public sectors and across many industries for KPMG, KPMG Consulting, BearingPoint and PwC.

Shaun is a senior advisor with the EDM Council and official certified trainer across the DCAM, CDMC and OKG training courses who has over 20 years global experience across London, Europe and Australia within the domains of data management, BI, business and data architecture, knowledge graphs and cloud technology from global investment banks including Merrill Lynch/Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Where most recently Shaun has led innovative global data foundation programs for the two leading Nordic banks, SEB and Nordea.

As one of the leading data management and analytics strategists across Europe, Shaun helps organisations build strong data cultures and deliver business value using Data- Analytics- AI via bridging Business and Technology.

Where Shaun’s passion lies in educating teams around data best practices and accelerating the adoption of the important 'next gen' data competencies across organisations in the enabling technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, KnowledgeGraphs & Graph Technology, Semantics and Cloud Data Platforms.

Across the data, architecture & technology industry, Shaun is a long standing member of the EDM Council and FIBO teams, the founder and leader of the Europe Business Architecture Guild Community and currently head of the Europe Data Leadership Circle. Shaun is an Aussie who now lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and 2 boys. While also a passionate cyclist and a proud ambassador for Hintsa Performance.

Elisa is a consultant with Thematix Partners LLC and graduate-level lecturer in computer science, focused on data management, data governance, knowledge representation, and decisioning systems. Her consulting practice includes business and information architecture, knowledge representation strategies, and ontology design, development, and training for clients in financial services, government, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, and retail domains. Recent projects have focused on use of ontologies to drive natural language processing, machine learning, interoperability, and other knowledge graph-based applications.

At the EDM Council she is lead ontologist for the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO), and is working with the team on other new ontology and knowledge graph initiatives for the OKG Innovation Lab.

Elisa represents knowledge representation, ontology, information architecture, and data management concerns on the Object Management Group (OMG)’s Architecture Board, is co-editor of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), Languages, Countries, and Codes (LCC), and Application Programming Interfaces for Knowledge Platforms (API4KP) standards, and a contributor to a number of other ISO, W3C, and OMG standards. She is also a member of the Technical Oversight Board and participates in the OAGi Industrial Ontology Foundry activity developing standardized ontologies for manufacturing. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCLA, and an A.M in Linguistics from Stanford University.

Pawel Garbacz is a full professor in the Department of Foundations of Computer Science (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), where for more than twenty years he has been instructing hundreds of students on the principles of knowledge representation.

His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including formal verification of ontology quality, modelling temporal relations in Semantic Web ontologies, developing ontology-driven relational metamodels, semantically enhanced search algorithms, etc. He also pioneered research on developing applied ontologies for the humanities.

Diana L. Ascher works at the intersection of information practice and policy. As head of research and senior advisor on data ethics and responsible artificial intelligence to the EDM Council, Dr. Ascher helps ensure the world's leading organizations develop ethical data management policies and practices. She is the founder of the Information Ethics & Equity Institute, which bridges information studies research and praxis through accredited programming for data and information workers.

Previously, Dr. Ascher gained expertise in information science research and instruction as director of the IS Lab at UCLA and manager of the UCLA Anderson Laboratory in Behavioral Decision Making; and in data and knowledge management, custom-publishing technologies, and financial communication and literacy at American Funds, Bloomberg, and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Early in her career, she wrote for the Durham Herald-Sun, the Charlotte News & Observer, and WTVD News.

Dr. Ascher earned a Ph.D. in information studies at UCLA; an M.B.A. from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University; and a B.A. in Public Policy with concentrations in journalism and international policy from Duke University as a recipient of the Benjamin N. Duke Leadership Scholarship

Michelle and her team manage all global marketing communications, public relations and events production for EDM Council. This includes driving key initiatives such as the DataVision events and EDMWebinars, media relations activity, and marketing campaigns and content for EDM Council programs such as DCAM, CDMC, ESG Data and training.

Jim is a seasoned Corporate General Counsel and Litigator admitted to practice in multiple states, federal and appeals courts including the Supreme Court of the United States. Jim began his career on Wall Street over thirty years ago.

Subamanirajan Saravanan is a passionate Project Manager with the Council building the Project Management practice. He helps in planning, tracking and coordinating the events, project/initiatives in the Council.

Mani holds a MBA in Technology Management and has previously worked as a Project Manager handling enterprise accounts in the U.S. healthcare vertical. He lives in Chennai, India.

John started working with the Council in 2022 as a member of the Technical Services team focusing on the overall infrastructure of the Council technical solutions
Prior to working with EDM Council, he worked at a number of software implementation organizations focusing on Finance, Regulatory Compliance and Manufacturing solutions in positions ranging from technical support to professional services management.

Sorin is the in-house web developer for the Enterprise Data Management Council. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of web development using various content management systems.

Sorin has been with the Council for 7 years and is responsible for creating and maintaining the Council's web platforms.

Kevin is part of the EDM Council technical support team. He is a certified database administrator and is responsible for providing technical support to all staff within the Council. Kevin has a background in marketing and technical services and has been part of the team since 2023.

Sagar joined the Council in 2023 as Corporate Controller. He is a strategic professional with 18+ years of experience in Finance & Accounts, Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), MIS Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting, Effective Business and Strategy Planning

Shivram joined the Council in 2023 as Director, Finance. In this role, Shivram supports Finance and other departments with management information reporting and analysis, planning and forecasting and related support, including assisting the CFO with various projects.

Shivram is a qualified Chartered Accountant from India and is a seasoned finance professional with 19+ years’ experience in finance and other corporate functions such as financial reporting, working capital management and was previously engaged in supporting international business operations including managing service delivery and advisory across multiple functions (viz. accounting, payroll, taxation, legal, and HR) to clients across multiple geographies. Shivram is based in Mumbai, India.

Charu joined the Council in September 2023 and is part of Finance team. She is an Analyst of Finance and Accounts. In this capacity, she manages and coordinates for accounts receivable and accounts payable operations.
Prior to joining the Council, Charu worked in accounts department for companies in the manufacturing and construction industry for 15 years. Charu holds a Master of Science Degree in Project Management from the Northeastern University, Boston and is based out of New Jersey, US.

Rashi has a total 12 years of experience in account receivables. Rashi joined the team in 2024.

Mike is a Co-Founder of the EDM Council and served as the first Chairman and active Board member since inception in 2005. Mike joined in 2015 as a Senior Advisor and served as the COO from 2020 to 2023, to lead Industry Engagement strategy, new member services and Council Operations.

Previously, Mike was the CEO of GoldenSource and held key executive roles at CheckFree (Fiserv), D&B and Oracle.

Chris is a visionary leader with a proven track record of disrupting and innovating across emerging tech, fintech, and digital assets. He is the former Global Head of Advanced Innovation Programs at Morgan Stanley, where he led development of disruptive emerging tech-driven programs across the firm globally. Prior to this, he headed firmwide initiatives for Fintech and Digital Asset Business Development for Morgan Stanley firmwide.

With years of institutional, entrepreneurial, and consulting/advisory experience, Chris has held senior positions at top-tier global banks, founded and led successful companies, and advised global financial institutions and fintechs on their strategic transformation. He is a trusted advisor and sought-after speaker on the future of finance.