Chief Data Strategy Officer; Host, Data Chief Podcast
ThoughtSpot
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Cindi Howson, chief data strategy officer at ThoughtSpot and host of the Data Chief podcast, was named Women in Data’s Data Leader of the Year in 2021. Howson, a business intelligence, data and analytics expert with 20+ years of experience, joined ThoughtSpot in 2019 as chief data strategy officer. From 2015 to 2019, Howson served as vice president in data and analytics at Gartner.