We're kicking off season 2 of the podcast with a bang! In this episode, I’m joined by Akia Obas, Senior Director of Data, Insights, and GTM Business Systems at Netlify. We dive into her career journey—from econometrics to data leadership—and discuss how company size and reporting structure can influence your path. Akia shares her insights on how joining a startup allowed her to “own the whole cake” (from data pipelines and infrastructure to insights and influencing the business) and how sel...
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We're kicking off season 2 of the podcast with a bang! In this episode, I’m joined by Akia Obas, Senior Director of Data, Insights, and GTM Business Systems at Netlify. We dive into her career journey—from econometrics to data leadership—and discuss how company size and reporting structure can influence your path. Akia shares her insights on how joining a startup allowed her to “own the whole cake” (from data pipelines and infrastructure to insights and influencing the business) and how sel...
Building a Unicorn Data Team with Veronika Durgin of Saks
Women Lead Data
43 minutes
10 months ago
Building a Unicorn Data Team with Veronika Durgin of Saks
In this episode, I’m joined by Veronika Durgin, VP of Data at Saks, to learn more about her leadership journey in the data industry. Veronika shares more about her career journey: how she got into data from a background in biology, spent several years working in DBA roles at well-known companies like Monster, Vistaprint, and HubSpot, and then moved into broader leadership roles in data. We talked a bit about her experience starting a family while managing full-time work and completing a maste...
Women Lead Data
We're kicking off season 2 of the podcast with a bang! In this episode, I’m joined by Akia Obas, Senior Director of Data, Insights, and GTM Business Systems at Netlify. We dive into her career journey—from econometrics to data leadership—and discuss how company size and reporting structure can influence your path. Akia shares her insights on how joining a startup allowed her to “own the whole cake” (from data pipelines and infrastructure to insights and influencing the business) and how sel...
