Marco Pinheiro

A passionate and experienced Director in Data Governance & MDM and an international speaker with an MBA in leadership and management with over 20 years of experience in implementing Data Governance & MDM across the organisation. Being able to bring competitive advantage to transform any organisation to “treating data as an asset”. 

A proven director with a strong track record in creating teams and delivering digital transformation programmes with teams of 20+ people. I am also an International speaker focusing on some of these topics (Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Data Culture)

The News Corp leadership has recruited me to implement from ground zero a Data Governance department in News UK, and I have been leading these global initiatives:

• Implement and lead Data Quality engagement within technology and the business to promote "good data good decision."
• Implementing and leading Data Governance in Customer, Finance, Procurement and HR; this initiative drove from 0 to 30 new Data Governance initiatives for News UK.
• Initiate and be the sponsor for MDM for Customer Data Domain, "know your customer"
• Initiate Data/Digital Ethics & Governance across News UK for our AI programme
• Implement and lead our Data Retention Programme across all systems in News Uk
• Implement and drive compliance (GDPR, TcF, PCI and other regulators) across News UK
• Initiate and lead TaG Governance, complying with TcF framework
• Implementing Data Governance and Data Management into our SAP S/4 Hana
• Working with Technology to implement Data Management best practices across DWH and our main source systems
• Technologies involvement (SAP S/4, SAP MDG, Salesforce, Google BigQuery, Atlan, Talend, Sourcepoint, Informatica, Sourcepoint, MonteCarlo Data Quality, Jira, Airtable)

I am part of the leadership for Data in News UK.

MBA from University of Liverpool