Mark Humphries
DAMA UK Chairman

Mark is the Consultancy Director at Civica, where he works with clients in central government to manage their data better and to gain actionable insight from it. Mark is a self-confessed data geek who has spent most of his professional life working with data one way or another; from moving it around, to making sense of it, but most of all trying to ensure that it can be trusted.

Mark's vision is for DAMA UK to be the natural home for data management professionals who look to the DMBoK for inspiration and guidance, and who aspire to hold CDMP as recognition of their professionalism.

Lisa Allen

DAMA UK Vice Chair

Lisa is a motivated leader who is passionate about data. She has experience across government and the private sector on a range of topics including open data, data governance, data cataloguing, GDPR, and data transformation. Lisa is Head of Consultancy for Data Programmes at the Open Data Institute. She heads up an expert team offering advice and guidance to companies and governments to build an open and trustworthy data ecosystem.

Nigel Turner

Nigel is Principal Information Management consultant with Global Data Strategy Ltd., specialising in data strategy, data quality, and data governance. Overall, he has worked in data management for over 25 years. He spent much of his career in British Telecommunications (BT), where he led a company wide data quality improvement programme and ran information management and CRM practices. Since leaving BT, Nigel has worked in a variety of consultancy roles, providing help and advice to over 150 global companies. He is a regular speaker, trainer and chair at information management conferences and events.

Chris Bradley

Christopher Bradley is an Independent Information Strategist with over 40 years of Information Management experience. Chris and his team at Data Management Advisors Ltd. advise global organisations on data strategy, capability uplift, data governance, and information exploitation. Chris is VP Professional Development at DAMA International, leading the worldwide CDMP & DMBoK developments, and is an author of the DMBoK 2 and lead author and examiner for the CDMP professional certification. In 2016, Chris became the inaugural DAMA CDMP Fellow, and Chair of the Fellowship board, receiving the DAMA lifetime achievement award for services in furthering Data Management to the International Data Management community. He is also a Director of the E&P standards committee "DMBoard", sits on several International Data standards committees, and has written several books and papers.

Sue Russell
Office & Finance Manager

Sue runs a small event management and business services company and supports DAMA UK and Team Defence Information. Sue is responsible for managing DAMA UK, her duties include managing membership, finance, the website, the design and layout of publications, and organising events. Please contact Sue in the first instance.

Suzanne Coumbaros

Suzanne is a data management professional with many years of experience in data governance, data architecture, data warehousing, business intelligence, data quality and data strategy in a variety of organisations. She has worked for many government led organisations as well as public and privately owned companies, across both the UK and Africa and is now a Global Data Governance Director, focusing on Global Master Data Management and automating the improvement of data quality with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies

Mary Drabble

Mary Drabble is the Principal Data Governance Analyst at abrdn, leading a team embedding the organisation-wide Data Governance Implementation Framework. Mary has a proven track record in Master Data Management, Data Governance and Data Quality tools, methodologies, architectures and processes. Prior to taking on an end user role, as a consultant with more than 15 years’ experience in Information Management, she helped clients across all industries in a wide variety of engagements ranging from Analytical to Operational data and information management solutions.Mary administers the DAMA UK Mentoring scheme and is regional co-ordinator for Scotland.