David Sedlock

David is the Chief Data Officer of Zayo group and recognized Data and AI industry leader with hands on experience with VC funded start-ups, Fortune 10 and private equity backed companies. Zayo is the largest independent infrastructure provider in the US with over 145,000 Fiber route miles. David received DataIiku’s 2024 Frontrunner Award for the Best Showcase of Return on AI and has been cited in numerous data, telecom and business publications. - Mar 2025: TM Forum “ AI monetization starts with good data governance”. https://lnkd.in/gerCru3e - Mar 2025: The Cube interview @ Mobile World Congress Barcelona https://youtu.be/HNXiqBnXlug -March 2025: Zayo Group ( (https//ZayoAIandDataGov) - Oct 2024: Dataiku’s 2024 Frontrunner Award: Best Showcase of Return on AI (https://bit.ly/3U86AGz) - Sept 2024: TMForum: Zayo unlocks a trove of data to deliver business value https://inform.tmforum.org/features/Zayo - April 2024: Dataiku: Zayo: Driving Operational Efficiency With Analytics & AI. (https://bit.ly/3AgeZR3) In his first 2 years at Zayo, David delivered $38M+ of savings through Data and AI “Quickstrikes”, scaled his CDO team from 5 to 50+ FTEs, drove a multi-year board level $15M Data & AI program that operationalized target state capabilities to include - single data platform, data ingestion patterns, Critical Data Elements (CDEs), Field Source of Records (FSoR), Business Ready Datasets (BRDs) / Gold Datasets, data product catalog, data inventory & quality frameworks. David interacts regularly with Zayo’s ELT, Board and Investors (EQT & Digital Bridge) while leading Zayo's Data Ecosystem which includes Snowflake, Dataiku, Sigma, FiveTran, Tableau, PowerBI, Azure Fabric, Global ID's, and dbt Labs.