Over the last year we have been taking submissions at our Chief Data & Analytics Officers event series.

We asked our attendees which senior executives they believe are accelerating the proliferation and understanding of data & analytics over the last 12 months.

In part 1 of our annual 'Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics 2019 | Americas' we share the first 50 entries. The following report is a series of interviews with selected members of that list.

The report features interview from:

• Kjersten Moody, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, State Farm
• Christopher Boone, PhD, Vice President, Head of Real-World Data & Analytics, Pfizer
• Salah Zalatimo, Chief Digital Officer, Forbes
• Cary Correia, Chief Commercial Data Scientist, GE
• Nona Janssen Walls, SVP Enterprise Data, Analytics & Intelligence, Lionsgate
• Michael W. Simon, Chief of Analytics, Central Intelligence Agency
• Reeto Mookherjee, Ph.D, Vice President, BI, Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Fandango
• Tim Eisenmann, Chief Analytics Officer / SVP of Advanced Analytics, American Tire Distributors
• Kamayini Kaul, Head of Enterprise Data Lakes and Data Integration, Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Krishna Cheriath, Chief Data Officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb
• John Carter, SVP, Analytics & Business Insight, Charles Schwab
• Joshua Weiner, Vice President, Head of Customer Analytics, Aetna
• Mark Wang, Chief Data Scientist, Alorica
• Amar Drawid, Ph.D., Head of Data & Reporting, Oncology Strategy & Analysis, Celgene
• Jerry Gupta, SVP, Digital Analyst Catalyst, Swiss Re
• Ash Dhupar, Chief Analytics Officer, Publishers Clearing House
• Das Dasgupta, Ph.D., SVP, Head of Data Science and Process Excellence, Viacom
• Glenn Hofmann, Chief Analytics Officer, New York Life
• Michael Berger, MSBA, VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Mount Sinai Health System