Data Management specialist group: Committee
Here are the members of the Data Management specialist group committee.
Chair
Ed Evans BSc FBCS
Data Consultant
Currently working at the Open Data Institute leading work in applying data ethics and creating sustainable data sharing ecosystems.
Ed helps organisations with practical and actionable data strategy, data governance, data services and the implementation needed to make it happen.
As founder and NED of New Digital Business (NDB) he helped to build an international digital consulting business from start-up.
Ed wants the BCS DMSG to support and inspire data professionals.
Vice Chair
Soyini Taylor MSc MBCS
Lead Business Architect
Soyini is an IT professional with over 16 years of international experience within various industries. She is currently a Lead Business Architect at Salesforce where she helps clients identify and prioritise business outcomes and goals for digital transformation. With a background in databases, she has also completed a Masters in Software Systems. Later she progressed from being a DBA to a data architect (team, department and enterprise-wide) before arriving at Salesforce.
Treasurer
Terry Freedman
Full bio to follow.
Academic Liaison and Inclusion/Diversity Officer
Dr Jagdev Kaur Bhogel FBCS
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Jagdev is the Head of Computing and Data Science Department at Birmingham City University specializing in Database Management teaching/research. Jagdev has a career in academia spanning nearly 4 decades and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Jagdev joined the BCS as a student member in 1982 and is now Fellow of BCS. She has been a BCS Examiner and has been engaged in BCS Accreditation work for the past 5 years.
She is a STEM Ambassador and an active member of the University Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Jagdev is passionate about addressing the gender gap in technology.
Early Careers Advocate
Barbara Bell MAAT MBCS
Business Solutions Data Analyst
Barbara is a Data Analyst, Trainer and Assessor. With over 25 years previous work experience in both the Public & Private Sector Financial/Data/Project Management; Leisure Management including Operations, Sales/Marketing. Barbara also delivers Data Governance & Compliance; Education, Training and Development across all job roles.
Committee members
Ashish Bhatt MEng (Hons), CITP, CEng MBCS, CIMP
Project Manager
Full bio to follow.
David Gradwell MA MBCS
Owner Director
Full bio to follow.
Jonathan Hedley RITTech MBCS
Data Governance Manager
Jonathan is a data professional with experience in both public and private industries. He is currently working within the Finance Sector, implementing effective data management and governance to monitor data policies, procedures, and best practices that ensure compliance and quality.
Jonathan is passionate about data analysis and driving meaningful business insights. He joined the BCS in August 2022, has been a member of this committee since October 2022, and is also a BCS Registered IT Technician.
Paul M Smith BA (Hons) MDipNLP CISM
Councillor/NED
Full bio to follow.
Daniel Brown
Chief Business Architect
Daniel has been working in information management since the 1990s, and for the past 20 years, in the offshore energy industry for operators, service providers, and trade bodies. He is passionate about recognition for data managers, and for data management as a profession, and was chair of the Society for Professional Data Managers from 2019 to 2023.
