Cindi Howson

Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer

ThoughtSpot

Cindi Howson is the chief data & AI strategy officer at ThoughtSpot and host of the award-winning The Data Chief podcast. Cindi is an analytics and AI thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology, spanning 30 years. As chief data & AI strategy officer at ThoughtSpot, she advises top clients on data and AI strategy and best practices to become data-driven; speaks internationally on top trends such as agentic AI, creating a data culture, aligning to business value, and AI ethics; and influences ThoughtSpot’s product strategy.

She has been named a Top 25 AI Executive by Software Report in 2024, DataIQ100 in 2023 & 2024, Motivator of the Year by Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA) in 2022, and CDO Magazine named her a Leading Data Consultant and Global Data Power Woman in 2022 and 2023. Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, Cindi was a Gartner Research VP. She is the author of six data industry books and teaches AI for Executives for GenAI.Works.