Nigel Turner

Nigel Turner is a highly experienced data management practitioner, consultant, trainer, conference chair and speaker who has worked in Information Management and related areas for 30 years. This experience has embraced Data Strategy, Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management, & Business Intelligence. Nigel spent much of his career in British Telecommunications Group (BT) where he led a series of enterprise wide IM & data quality initiatives which brought huge benefits to BT. He also created and led large IM & CRM consultancy & delivery practices which served BT Global Services’ customers, including Emirates Airlines, the UK Ministry of Defence, Intel, HBOS, Belgacom and others.

Nigel co-founded Global Data Strategy with Donna Burbank in 2015 where he has worked with clients in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Before becoming Global Data Strategy’s Principal Consultant EMEA, Nigel also worked as a Principal Consultant at FromHereOn (Enterprise Architects) and IPL / Civica, where he led Data Governance engagement with customers such as First Great Western and British Gas in the UK. Currently he is acting as an interim Chief Data Officer (CDO) with a global financial company and has recently worked with several UK government departments to develop and deliver data governance and data stewardship training. Nigel is a well-known thought leader in Information Management and has run many tutorials and presented at numerous international conferences. He has also written several white papers and is a frequent blogger on Information Management topics. Nigel is very active in professional Data Management organisations and is a longstanding committee member of the Data Management Association (DAMA) UK. He was the joint winner of DAMA International’s 2015 Community Award for the work he initiated and led in setting up a mentoring scheme in the UK where experienced DAMA professionals coach and support newer data management professionals.

Nigel is based in Cardiff, Wales.