CDAO New Zealand
2025 Speakers

James Beech
Chief Analytics and Insight Officer
Westpac
Helius Guimaraes
Chief Data & AI Officer
Fonterra
Sarah Cawsey
General Manager Data
Auckland Council
Mike Parsons
Data & AI - Tribe Lead and Chapter Area Lead
Air New Zealand

Fiona Thomson
Director of Analytics, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisory
Ministry for Ethnic Communities | Te Tari Mātāwaka

Hamish McEwen
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Fire & Emergency NZ

Graeme Jackson
GM Data & Analytics – Enterprise
Vector
Mira Bradshaw
Head of Data Governance
SkyCity

David Thomas
GM of Data and Enterprise Architecture
NZ Post

Neeharika Chowdhary
GM AI Product & Value
One New Zealand

Bryan Ng
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise

Priya Mathur
Head of Enterprise Data
Fidelity Life

Peter McCallum
Head of Data
2degrees

Peter Gavin
GM, Data & Analytics
ANZ

Angela Zhao
Head of Data and AI Governance
Genesis

Mike Congdon
Head of Data & Analytics
Southern Cross Healthcare

Xanthe Sulzberger
Head of Data - Operational Excellence
Fonterra

Sean Narayan
Artificial Intelligence & Business Intelligence Lead
Bidfood New Zealand

Tony Aitken
Group Manager – AI & Advanced Analytics
Auckland Transport

Dhivian Govender
Head of Data and Analytics
Slater and Gordon Lawyers
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Chris Carter
Head of Data & Intelligence
Financial Market Authority (FMA)

Caroline Atford
Head of Data and Insights
Stuff

Hayden Tuffery
Head of Data Enablement
NZ Post

Mazen Kassis
Head of Data & Analytics
Foodstuffs NZ

Andrew Parkinson
Head of Analytics
Auckland Council

Jeff Smith
National Data & Analytics Manager
New Zealand Couriers
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Krishna Pathri
Head of Data and Insights
thl

Stasha Rmandic
Head of Analytics & Insights
Whakarongorau Aotearoa

Gal Fybish
Data Analytics Lead
Turners

Delia Rusu
Data Science Lead
The Warehouse Group
Farhein Akmal
Lead BI Analyst
Te Whatu Ora