CDO Club Names Dr. D.J. Patil, Previous White House Chief Data Scientist as the First-Ever 'Chief Data Officer of the Year



NEW YORK, March 21: Dr. D.J. Patil, the U.S. Chief Data Scientist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from February 2015 to January 2017, was acknowledged for the first time ever as U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2016 by the CDO Club, the world's chief group of C-suite digital as well as data frontrunners.

In 2015, Dr. Patil was chosen by President Barack Obama to be the first-ever U.S. Chief Data Scientist. In running the nation's countrywide data endeavors, he assisted in creating approximately 40 Chief Data Officer responsibilities throughout the Federal government.

Dr. Patil also launched new health care programs comprising the Precision Medicine Initiative, the Cancer Moonshot, and new criminal justice transformations comprising the Data-Driven Justice and Police Data Initiatives that encompass over 94 million Americans.

"There were many deserving nominees for the first-ever U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year award, but none more accomplished than Dr. D.J. Patil," commented David Mathison, CEO of the CDO Club and CDO Summit. 

"D.J. has consistently proven himself to be a reliable, loyal, and dedicated public servant, selflessly applying his many talents for the public good. In government, academia, and the private sector, his intelligence, enthusiasm, optimism, innovative ideas, business savvy, effective communication skills, and solution-oriented approaches have delivered tremendous value to his colleagues, shareholders and investors. For all these reasons and more, I am delighted to name D.J. as the world's first-ever Chief Data Officer of the Year," revealed Mathison.

Dr. Patil has been awarded several patents and achieved worldwide appreciation for his endeavors, comprising "The World's 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists" by Forbes, "36 of Tech's Most Powerful Disruptors" by CNN, and a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum, to name a few.

In 2016, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter presented Dr. Patil with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the utmost dignity the department confers on a private national.

In the private segment, D.J. steered the product groups at RelateIQ (procured by Salesforce); was starting board member for Crisis Text Line which functions to utilize novel expertise to deliver on demand mental and crisis backing; and was a member of the venture firm Greylock Partners.

He formerly functioned as Chief Scientist, Chief Security Officer and Head of Analytics and Data Product Teams at the LinkedIn Corporation where he co-coined the word Data Scientist, and enjoyed several responsibilities at Skype, PayPal, and eBay.

As a member of the teaching staff at the University of Maryland, his study concentrated on nonlinear dynamics and chaos notion. He assisted in launching a key study scheme on numerical weather forecast.

As an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow for the Department of Defense, Dr. Patil guided fresh attempts to leverage social network study and the merging of computational and social sciences to predict evolving dangers to the US.

Dr. Patil gained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland College Park in 2001. He got a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California San Diego in 1996.

While this is for the first time ever U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year award, the CDO Club in recent times presented the first-ever Australian Chief Data Officer of the Year award to Simon Bligh, CEO of Dun & Bradstreet ANZ.

Ever since 2013, the CDO Club has furthermore presented Chief Digital Officer of the Year prizes to top executives in the U.S., U.K., the European Union, as well as Australia. The first-ever Chief Digital Officer of the Year prize was presented in February 2013 to Teddy Goff, who functioned as Digital Director at Obama for America in 2008 and 2012.

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