Welcome to The Data Gals, a mentorship programme designed to support and inspire women in the field of Data and AI. The programme was created with a clear purpose: to address the gender gap in Data & AI careers and empower women to thrive in this dynamic industry.
Meet our Mentors

Wendy Amexo
Data & Analytics Manger, Procter & Gamble

Teresa Ironside
Director of Data Science Education, University of Edinburgh

Jigna Patel
Deputy Head of Analytics, Cafcass

Cara Tulley
Senior Data Scientist, Tesco Bank

Sean Robertson
Director Data & Data Engineering, Modulr

Poushali Goswami
Data Analytics Manager, NatWest

Dan Kellett
Chief Data Officer, Capital One UK

Sue Liu
Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Kingfisher

Damian Grech
Senior Director of Engineering, FanDuel

Adrienne Leonard
Head of Data Science, Cirium

Dave Harrison
Global Director of Data & AI, Mars Wrigley

Claire Burn
Senior Security Data Engineer, Elastic

Isabel Mendes
Head of Digital Analytics, FIFA

Cherry Shek
Head of Data Engineering, Scottish Funding Council

Julia Moreno
GenAI Data Scientist, SAS

Carly Metcalfe
Director of Data Engineering, Blend

India Thomson
Data Engineer, Hypercube

Gemma Turner
Digital Data & Analytics Manager, The Very Group

Christopher Wallace
Head of Data and Analytics, InterGen

Athena Zitrou
Head of Business Analytics, Scottish Water

Andrea Rosales
Lead Data Scientist, Colibri Digital

Lindsay Newton
Senior Manager; Data, Advanced Analytics & Insight, Lloyd’s Banking Group

Oxana Golodyuk
Data Science & Analytics Director, LYMA

Patrick Giordani
Vice President of Data, Kiwi.com
