Jess Baker

Head of Data Governance CBRE Investment Management

Jess Baker is the Head of Data Governance for CBRE Investment Management, focusing on setting and realizing the firm’s Data Governance strategy. In this role, she is responsible for initiatives that improve the trustworthiness of our data assets - by establishing policies & procedures that support consistency, accuracy, and discoverability of data for IM professionals. Jess joined CBREIM in 2019 from Bloomberg, where she helped lead their Fixed Income Data Governance framework. While there, her primary responsibility was to modernize their quality assurance program to obtain golden copy reference data.Jess earned a Master of Finance degree from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Elizabethtown College. She is an accredited data management professional, holding a CDMP Master designation. Jess serves on the board of directors for OSCRE International.

Day 2: Regulatory and Workforce Trends Impacting Data Today and Tomorrow

2:00 PM Practitioner Led Boardroom | Impacting Adoption of Data Driven Initiatives for Small – Medium Sized Organizations

Getting adoption for various data driven initiatives is a tough task for organizations of all shapes and sizes. Jess Baker is the head of Data Governance at CBRE Investment Management and will be leading this peer led boardroom by showing us ways leaders from small to medium sized organizations can gain adoption for data driven initiatives across the enterprise. Topics include:

Understanding your organization’s data maturity level and how to properly strategize the execution of your initiatives.
Ways to show empathy and relatability for business functions to marry data goals.
Practical take aways for developing soft skills like active listening and breaking down technical concepts for non-technical users.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Jess.

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