Kyriakatos, Sandy

Sandy Kyriakatos has been driving organizations towards data driven cultures for 20 years. She started her career as a hands-on developer of data warehouses and progressed to more senior roles focusing on business ownership of information, business/IT collaboration, and building and leading data teams at a number of organizations. Her experience ranges from work at SAS Canada, where she advised and guided organizations in their data and analytics practices to a position at Canada Post, where she led the BI Program and, under the Senior VP of strategy, also led the assessment and creation of the Analytics Centre of Expertise and Data Governance Office.

Today, Sandy is the Employment and Social Development Canada’s first Chief Data Officer and has been responsible for leading the development and implementation of the Department’s first enterprise data strategy.