David Mathison is the CEO and founder of the CDO Club and CDO Summit. Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief Digital and Data Officers. From 1999-2001 he was founder and CEO of the Kinecta Corporation where he raised $30 million in under 2 years. Kinecta was acquired and is now part of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL). From 1994-1999 Mathison was Vice President with Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest news agency, where he pioneered online content syndication.