Bret is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Data at Cognizant, leading Cognizant’s Global Data Practice. He is focused on helping chief data officers transform their businesses through data modernization. The Data Practice provides essential capabilities to help companies architect for and adopt cloud, embrace external data, increase accessibility of data and ensure data governance at scale. Bret also helps drive data transformation across Cognizant’s business units and participates in industry advisory boards to shape data policy, accelerate education and share best practices.