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Meredith Feiner

Meredith Feiner is a Talent Managing Director at Deloitte, leading the organization’s ongoing HR transformation. Meredith is a strategic Human Resources leader with a track record of directing enterprise-wide talent initiatives to elevate the Talent experience. She has extensive experience leading teams and developing, implementing, and guiding HR processes to enable business growth. Prior to her current role, Meredith led Deloitte’s HR Technology, User Experience, and People Analytics teams to provide data-driven workforce insights and industry-leading digital solutions to advance professionals’ Talent experience. In this role, she led the implementation of the Data & Trust Alliance Algorithmic Bias Safeguards for Deloitte, which is a proud member of the Alliance and early adopter of the Safeguards.

Richard Andrews

Richard Andrews currently serves as Senior Counsel at Transcarent, a growth stage venture led by healthtech entrepreneur Glen Tullman on a mission to create a new, different, and better health and care experience that puts health consumers in charge, directly connecting them with high-quality care, transparent information, and trusted guidance on their terms – measurably improving Member experience, increasing health outcomes, and reducing costs.

A proud member of the Data & Trust Alliance, Transcarent recently completed an acquisition transaction with 98point6, a virtual care company powered by an AI chatbot that collects information via a text exchange with the patient and summarizes it for a human doctor who then takes over the chat. As a key leader in Transcarent’s negotiations and due diligence process with 98point6, Richard had the opportunity to become an early user of the Responsible Culture, Data & AI Diligence for M&A diligence tools that have been developed by the D&TA and is looking forward to sharing some of his experiences. 

Richard joined Transcarent as an early employee while the company was in stealth mode and has enjoyed helping to build the company’s legal function from the ground up. Prior to joining Transcarent, Richard practiced corporate and securities law at premier global law firms Latham & Watkins and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. A Northern California native, Richard received his law degree from UC Berkeley and holds an MBA from UC Davis.

Travis Carpenter

Travis Carpenter has been innovating with data for over two decades. As the leader of the Data Sources team at Mastercard, he brings an entrepreneurial spirit to the management and usage of internal and external data sources. To ensure all data was fit for purpose, he led the development of the framework and methodology for improving data quality through activities that discover, diagnose and remediate issues. To make data more accessible and private, his team has led the analysis and implementation of new Privacy Enhancing Technologies, such as Homomorphic Encryption, Differential Privacy and Synthetic Data.

Travis has been with Mastercard for sixteen years. Prior to joining the Data Sources team, he led many teams within the Loyalty business unit, including the Rewards product line. Mastercard is one of the leaders in consumer loyalty worldwide, supporting over 400 issuer and merchant programs. Travis lives in St. Louis with his wife and four sons. He holds an MBA from the University of Missouri, Robert J. Trulaske School of Business.

Gary Kotovets

Gary Kotovets is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics. In this role, Gary leads the company’s data and analytics strategy globally, and is responsible for enterprise data governance and exploring new digital and alternative data and analytics opportunities.

Before joining Dun & Bradstreet, Gary spent nearly two decades in leadership roles across Bloomberg L.P.’s data and exchange businesses. There, he was instrumental in turning Bloomberg Global Data’s Content & Entities Business Management group into a world-class operation that drives the growth and revenue of Bloomberg Financial Products.

Most recently, Gary was Global Head of Data Acquisition and Management where he led an international team responsible for all aspects of financial information management across all of Bloomberg’s businesses. Prior to this role, Gary was Global Head of Exchanges and Index for Bloomberg’s Calculation Business. He began his career in business development and international project management roles.

Gary holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from City University of New York.