Dr. David Marco, IIM Fellow, CBIP, CDP, IIBA Global Analytics Expert
President, EWSolutions
Best known as the world’s foremost authority on data governance and metadata management, he is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of data management, AI governance, data literacy, advanced analytics, and data stewardship. Dr. David Marco has earned many industry honors, including Crain’s Chicago Business “Top 40 Under 40”, named by DePaul University as one of their “Top 14 Alumni Under 40”, and he is a Professional Fellow in the Institute of Information Management. In 2022, CDO Magazine named Dr. Marco one of the Top Data Consultants in North America and IDMMA named him their Data Management Professional of the Year. He is the president of DataManagementU.com and is their lead contributor. He is IIBA’s Analytics Expert. In 2023, LinkedIn named Dr. Marco LinkedIn’s Top Business Intelligence (BI) Voice. In 2024, he received the BIG Innovation Award for Data Management and CDO. In 2024, Dr. Marco was named LinkedIn’s Top Data Governance Voice.
David Marco is the author of the widely acclaimed two top-selling books in metadata management history, “Universal Meta Data Models” and “Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository” (available in multiple languages). In addition, he is a co-author of numerous books and has published hundreds of articles, some of which are translated into Mandarin, Russian, Portuguese, and others. He has taught at the University of Chicago and DePaul University.