Iqbal Khan

Enterprise data & AI enablement leader with 15+ years translating business strategy, enterprise data standards, and governance operating models into practical execution across regulated financial-services and payments organizations. Partners with business leaders, Data Product Owners, platform, analytics, and technology teams to identify high-value use cases, define trusted data product requirements, and embed ownership, quality, semantics, metadata, lineage, lifecycle controls, and AI readiness into delivery. Proven record of improving time to market, analytics adoption, regulatory outcomes, and measurable value across complex, matrixed enterprises.

Director, Data Management - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - Atlanta, GA

(2024-06)

• Operationalized enterprise data strategy across business value streams, aligning data roadmaps, delivery priorities, OKRs and KPIs with measurable business outcomes and realized value
• Embedded governance and data quality controls into the migration of Employee Benefits data and applications – including plan administration, health insurance claims, pension and retirement benefits - from a third party provider to internally hosted cloud platforms
• Built and operationalized a federated data stewardship model that translated enterprise policies and standards into accountable ownership, execution practices and escalation paths across business teams
• Led initiatives on Data Democratization and programs for Data Culture enablement
• Established an AI-readiness and GenAI governance framework to prioritize use cases and ensure trusted, protected and fit-for-purpose data for automation and AI delivery
• Reduced data time to market by 30% by resolving cross-business provisioning dependencies and delivery tradeoffs, establishing stewardship accountability and implementing SLA-based delivery processes across pilot business units
• Institutionalized Data Contracts and Data Sharing Agreements for third-party and internal data use, ensuring regulatory alignment
• Established a compliance monitoring and reporting framework with executive dashboards tracking policy adherence, data risk reduction, control gaps, and stakeholder adoption
• Embedded governance, quality and consumption-readiness requirements into analytics delivery, reducing provider support calls by 30% and increasing self-service analytics adoption
• Integrated metadata, business glossary, semantic definitions and lineage with enterprise data architecture to improve discovery, trust, reuse and consumption readiness

Principal - Bintellica LLC - Atlanta, GA

(2023-04 - 2024-06)

• Delivered executive advisory and training on data risk management, Governance Operating Models, and AI ethics for enterprise clients
• Designed risk-reward frameworks for AI adoption balancing innovation, security, and compliance

Master Practitioner, Data Governance & Analytics - North Highland - Atlanta, GA

(2022-05 - 2023-04)

• Translated enterprise data strategies and maturity gaps into actionable business and technology roadmaps, delivery plans and priorities for clients in payments, pharmaceutical and government environments
• Implemented Collibra-enabled data certification, change management and stewardship onboarding, improving ownership, quality, usability and readiness of governed data for business consumption
• Authored and implemented data classification policies reducing Data Risk

Director, Data Governance & Enablement - Global Payments - Atlanta, GA

(2020-04 - 2022-05)

• Led an $8 million enterprise data enablement program across 10+ global business units, translating enterprise strategy and governance standards into business-aligned data roadmaps, delivery priorities and sustainable accountability
• Partnered with Platform, Enterprise Architecture and Data Engineering teams to embed governance, quality and data protection controls into AWS, GCP and Snowflake data workflows, supporting analytics, reuse and PCI-DSS-aligned delivery
• Integrated Data Quality and Stewardship controls during cloud migration, enhancing security and accelerating analytics onboarding
• Defined and operationalized minimum data product requirements covering ownership, quality, semantics, metadata, lifecycle controls and consumption readiness, in partnership with Product Managers
• Developed CDMC-based maturity model training and assessments for IT leadership to benchmark governance capability
• Partnered with the Executive Steering Committee to launch a Data Governance Council and influence business sponsors, Data Product Owners and Data Stewards in a matrixed environment, resolving ownership, priority and escalation issues across business units
• Led a 15-member global team and activated enterprise stewardship and data literacy practices across business units, building sustainable accountability for trusted data products and analytics
• Enforced enterprise data retention, access approval, and privacy governance policies in compliance with GDPR and regional data laws

Sr Manager - Accenture - Atlanta, GA

(2019-03 - 2020-04)

• Delivered Data Strategy advisory services across Banking, Life Sciences, Retail and Public Sector clients

Solution Director - 3Sage Consulting LLC - Atlanta, GA

(2017-02 - 2018-09)

• Delivered Data Governance and MDM consulting services for clients in FinTech and Healthcare space
• Strengthened clients’ data privacy processes to meet GDPR and CCPA mandates

Principal - Bintellica LLC - Atlanta, GA

(2015-10 - 2017-01)

• Provided consulting services on regulatory-aligned Data Management for Dodd-Frank, BCBS 239 and GDPR compliance

Director/Sr. VP, Data Governance and Architecture - Citibank - New York, NY & Atlanta, GA

(2011-04 - 2015-09)

• Built greenfield enterprise Data Governance framework and managed a 20+ member team across data domains and geographies
• Defined semantic data layer and canonical models and enterprise data domain models, establishing federated ownership and reusable business definitions for analytics, risk and regulatory reporting
• Elevated EDM DMM maturity scores YoY through policy standardization and operational governance
• Partnered with CDO, Risk, and Compliance functions to implement 2 nd Line of Defense governance controls and firm-wide Data Privacy standards
• Implemented a Data Management Maturity assessment modeled on DCAM

M.S. - Columbia University

B.Tech. - IIT (Dhanbad), India