Summary
Chris Yates is a data and technology leader with 9 years of senior experience building and scaling enterprise data capabilities across financial services, consumer goods, supply chain and logistics. He has a track record of founding and growing data offices—from creating a 150+ person function and marketing attribution at GSK to standing up Coventry’s first CDO function and embedding data risk and literacy at board level. Chris has delivered platform modernisation programs (including a GCP migration at Royal Mail), launched monetised customer-facing data products in a startup environment, and applies agile product thinking to data governance and AI integration. He combines hands-on delivery with strategic influence, routinely translating complex data initiatives into measurable ROI and operational change. Less obvious: he balances big-picture transformation with developer curiosity—maintaining interests in front-end, ML and VR work that keep him grounded in practical engineering.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The Open University