About

Iryna Feldman

Enterprise intelligence: enablement, governance, strategy and ethics

Iryna Feldman works on the enablement, governance, strategy and ethics of enterprise intelligence: the framework, the policies and the cross-functional process that let an organization adopt it responsibly, built on nearly two decades in enterprise data and analytics. This site is where, with a little help from her 'friend', she writes about that journey: what works, what does not, and what responsible practice looks like in a regulated industry. The views here are her own.

Leadership scope

Enablement

Getting an organization from curiosity to intelligence in production, with the business owning the use cases.

Enterprise-wide business enablement built from inception: the intake, the cross-functional process with Legal, Compliance, Privacy and IT, and the partnership with executive leadership on where intelligence goes first.

Governance

The guardrails that let an organization move: adoption inside real regulatory constraints.

Chairs the enterprise AI governance committee; built the framework and policies from scratch and runs them through real regulatory review.

Strategy

Connecting investment in intelligence to outcomes leadership actually tracks, sequenced against the data it depends on.

Partners with executive leadership on data and intelligence strategy; business owner in the enterprise data modernization program, including the lakehouse initiative.

Ethics & responsible practice

Fairness, transparency and accountability treated as design requirements, not a review at the end.

Google Cloud Generative AI, LLMs and Responsible AI credential; MIT CDOIQ review board; the ethics and governance lane of her open-source work.

Enterprise data strategy & governance

The data foundation intelligence stands on: trustworthy enough that people stop keeping their own copy.

Analytics roadmaps with defined success metrics; founded the Data Governance Committee; an enterprise data catalog and a BI platform rebuilt on a modern SaaS stack; machine learning in production in the cloud.

Organization building

Hiring, structuring and keeping the teams that senior people want to stay on.

Leads an enterprise data organization spanning data engineering, AI engineering, BI and data science; retention and engagement that senior people notice; a leadership pipeline built for emerging talent.

Speaking & thought leadership

CDOIQ Symposium Review Board

2024

MIT International Conference on Information Quality

Evaluated submissions on data strategy, governance and analytics leadership for the 18th Annual Symposium.

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Data & Security Summit Wisconsin

May 9, 2024

CDO Magazine

Panelist on enterprise adoption of machine learning and NLP.

  • Boardroom Navigating AI, ML and NLP: Use Cases and Considerations
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Credentials

  • Chief Data Officer Certificate Carnegie Mellon University · 2023
  • Cloud Digital Leader Google Cloud · 2024
  • Generative AI, LLMs & Responsible AI Google Cloud · 2024
  • Healthcare Management Professional AHIP · 2012

Education

  • Michigan State University MS, Industrial Mathematics · Summa Cum Laude · 2009
  • Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania BA, Mathematics · Summa Cum Laude · 2007

Technical depth

Analytics & BI
Enterprise BI platforms and self-service analytics, from platform migration to adoption at scale
Data science & ML
Predictive modeling, NLP, neural networks and survival analysis, taken from notebook to production
Cloud
Cloud data platforms across the major providers: storage, warehousing, lakehouse and governed access
Governance
Enterprise data catalogs, metadata management, data quality frameworks, ETL/ELT
Engineering
Expert SQL, statistical and general-purpose programming, agile delivery
Domain
Healthcare analytics, medical economics, underwriting, claims, customer experience

Get in touch

Email and LinkedIn are the fastest routes for speaking engagements, panel invitations, or professional inquiries.