American Express CDO and EVP Enterprise Digital & Data Solutions, Pascale Hutz on Managing Data as a Product and Rewarding Creative Destruction

What keeps a data pro at one company for almost thirty years? On this episode of The Data Chief, Pascale Hutz, the Chief Data Officer and EVP of Enterprise Digital & Data Solutions at American Express, shares how her career at American Express has transformed over the years and what she’s learned along the way. Tune in to hear more about her latest cloud migration journey, why she’s on a  “mission to decommission,” and how she fights imposter syndrome even as a C-level executive in one of the largest, most impactful financial services firms in the world. 

Tune in to learn:

• About Pascale’s career journey (03:41)
• That data should be considered like a product 14:18:
• How to stay tranquil during transformation (17:02)
• The importance of decommissioning tech  (21:21)

Mentions:

• "Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale" (written by Zhamak Dehghani)
• World50
• “Enterprise Data Platforms, American Express, VP: The Data Landscape is Evolving Continuously” 
• “Not Impossible” (written by Mick Ebeling)

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