Summary
Sina Heshmati is a Data AI Governance product GTM leader and RegTech advisor with 15 years of experience shaping enterprise data ecosystems and regulatory-compliant data practices. He currently guides AI Markets Group as Data & AI Governance, Product & GTM Leader and serves on the Board of Advisors, aligning practical governance with market-ready AI strategies across BCBS239 and ESG domains. At Collibra, he helped define core governance capabilities—from business lineage and data catalogs to reference data management and cloud migration playbooks—earning recognition for innovations like the Collibrain concept and platform-wide integrations. As a freelance Solutions Architect, he has delivered data mesh–inspired architectures on Databricks on Azure, with automated governance using Collibra and open-source tooling, including data contracts, data products, and data quality scorecards for financial services and beyond. His early career includes software engineering at Collibra and a stint as a Google Student Developer, underpinned by a computer science degree from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, he translates complex regulatory requirements into auditable, scalable data products that empower data citizens, cross-functional teams, and regulators alike.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Université libre de Bruxelles
Computer Science, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
English, French, Dutch, Persian, Arabic