Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Suresh Srinivas, CEO and Co-founder, Collate. At six years old, he dreamed of being a scientist passionate about math and puzzles but fell in love with computers for the same reason later in life. Debugging problems and fixing what doesn't work, a passion he still pursues by coding on weekends when not serving as CEO - "chief of everything officer". Hear how his journey took him from Nortel Networks to Yahoo's Hadoop team during the big data revolution, to co-founding various data driven companies.

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Ron Zionpour, Chief Technology Officer, Healthee. At six years old, he never dreamed of becoming a CTO. He grew up in the 90’s taking apart old radios and flashlights to reassemble them into something more useful, inspired by his father's electronics work and driven by an innate desire to solve problems and create. When his love of math and science led him to computer science in college, he started at a large corporation but quickly left for an early-stage tech startup. Listen how he spent eight and a half years growing from junior developer to VP of Engineering, discovered he loved leading people more than writing code but stayed obsessed with technical details and knowing the platform better than anyone. As well as landing at Healthee to help people navigate the confusing U.S. healthcare system by turning complex benefits information into clear, actionable insights through AI built on rock-solid data foundations.

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Macie Minier, Director of Strategy and Evaluation, Coburn Place Safe Haven. She never imagined working with data on a macro level. Growing up watching her social worker mother, she assumed social work meant directly helping people face-to-face, starting as a case manager at a domestic violence emergency shelter realizing that is not always the case working with survivors brought in from police departments and hospitals. While she loved the interpersonal connection, she kept facing the same systemic problems beyond individual cases, so she stayed vocal with supervisors about trends and persistently offered to tackle administrative work until she transitioned into program analysis. Listen to how as Director of Strategy and Evaluation at Coburn Place, a domestic violence safe haven, handles data governance, grant reporting, strategic planning, and KPIs across the entire organization and learning that her biggest challenge wasn't analytical ability but communication.

Listener note: This episode features a conversation with a professional who works at Coburn Place, a domestic violence shelter. While we do not share personal stories or detailed accounts, the topic is mentioned in this episode. This note is shared simply so you can make an informed choice about listening.

If you or someone you know needs support, help is available. In the U.S., you can contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at thehotline.org or call/text 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). You can learn more about Coburn Place at coburnplace.org/.

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Erin Woodward, Lead AI Architect, Cyclotron. At six years old, she dreamed of becoming an astronaut due to an aunt sending her items from space camps and watching the film of the same name. But being in the middle of the country left little opportunities for that path. Her advisor suggests computer science since "computers were becoming a thing" which fed into her natural talent for math and love of puzzles. Nothing about her 25-year data career turned out to be as easy as she thought. Follow along how she went from a call center worker to becoming the lead AI Architect at Cyclotron.

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Malcolm Hawker, Chief Data Officer, Profisee. At six years old, he dreamed of getting paid to build Lego for the rest of his life. While that didn't pan out, his winding career path through data and product management has been just as creative. After earning a business degree, he pursued a master's in communications while dreaming of becoming the next Richard Branson. Instead, he sent 400 resumes and landed as a call center rep at AOL in 1995. Listen how that AOL role launched a 30-year career spanning product management, data and analytics, and leadership roles at companies like Dun & Bradstreet and Gartner, eventually leading him to make the unconventional decision to step away from people management and a multi-million dollar budget to become an individual contributor and thought leader, advising CDOs, CIOs, and CEOs.

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Welcome to the season finale of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Shannon Fuller, Lead Data Governance, Ahold Delhaize USA. At six years old, he dreamed of becoming a pilot. When he discovered he was colorblind, he shifted his interests to architecture, a passion fueled by his family's construction company where he worked summers as a teen. Tune in to hear how his journey to electrical engineering shaped him to become a Data Governance leader for a global grocery retailer.

Season 04 set to begin in early 2026!

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Susan Ray, Associate Professor of English, Delaware County Community College. She never imagined she'd become invested in data as an English professor specializing in Victorian literature, but her crash course came when developing an accelerated learning program. There, data shaped everything from student placement to school funding decisions. When AI-generated essays flooded her classroom, she refused to be like her undergraduate instructors from the past who resisted technology. Instead, she surveyed 100 students and discovered some surprising information that led her to "Bridging the AI Gap" where she tracks retention and grades while learning crucial lessons about data credibility from institutional research experts. Listen to her journey in proving that someone in the humanities can lead data-driven change by staying transparent about what she doesn't know while keeping students' needs and authentic human voices central.

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Ariel Utnik, CEO, Seemore Data. He never knew what he wanted to be at six years old, or even at twenty-six, and honestly admits he still doesn't know. What he does know, is that he loves climbing mountains, taking on challenges and learning from his mistakes. His career journey began almost by accident when a friend told him about a QA tester position where the only requirement was "having a heartbeat". Hear how he turned his curiosity and thirst for knowledge into a leading AI optimization platform.

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