DAMA UK COMMITTEE

No new nominations were received by 31 August 2009, therefore, the original committee were re-elected by default and will serve until October 2011. Since the elections we have gained 3 more committee members. Please see contact list below.

Committee positions are held for two years - the next voting and elections will take place in August 2011. 

Committee Profiles

David Evans – Dave has worked for BT in the UK for 16 years. He currently leads a consultancy team specialising in information architecture, metadata, data quality and ETL, providing solutions for internal and external clients. He led on the formulation of, and now manages, an Information Management tools portfolio for BT’s Wholesale business and has delivered a number of collaborative working solutions. He has previous programme management experience, delivering significant components of BT’s marketing data warehouse and operator services systems, all delivering major data quality and management benefits.

Keith Gordon – Keith established himself as an independent consultant and trainer in 1998 after a serving many years in the Army. Keith’s Army service culminated with him leading the Army’s Data Management Programme, in which he was responsible for developing and implementing the policy, standards and procedures to manage data as a corporate resource across the Army. Keith has continued to concentrate on data management in his current consultancy and training work. Keith is also an Associate Lecturer with the Open University, specialising in data and databases, and an accredited examiner for the Business Systems Development Diploma scheme provided by the Information Systems Examination Board of the British Computer Society.

Dagna Gaythorpe - Dagna has been in IT for over 20 years, and has spent most of that time in data management. During that time, she has worked in a number of interesting industries (including accountancy, manufacturing, travel, utilities, and investment banking), and has been independent since 2003. She has now started to tell people about it, and has given presentations to data management and software development conferences in the UK and America, and she is a technical proof-reader of data management books.

      Dave Evans                    

Keith Gordon                    Sue Russell                  Dagna Gaythorpe