Speaker profile

Heather is a Data & AI leader with 20 years’ experience across in-house leadership roles and senior positions in consulting and advisory. With international experience spanning Europe, MENA and North America, she combines commercial insight, technical expertise and cultural understanding to guide organisations through complex data and AI decisions.

As an advisor, Heather provides pragmatic governance and strategic oversight, helping senior leadership navigate transformation, manage risk, and embed ethical considerations into data and AI programmes. She specialises in data and AI strategy (including generative / agentic AI) commercial growth through data, operating models, data governance, data literacy, and architectural principles.

She works most effectively in organisations facing scale, transformation or uncertainty, offering experienced stewardship that bridges strategy, technology and commercial outcomes with lasting impact. Heather enjoys working on the cutting edge of new technologies, including advising scale-up companies within robotics, data security and data bias.