Ade Adewunmi

Ade is a Senior Consultant at Teradata, with a focus on Public Sector organisations and their effective use of data. Prior to her role at Teradata, Ade worked at the Government Digital Service (GDS), the organisation created to drive the transformation of UK government content and services through better use of digital technology and data transformation, based in the centre of Government. Ade spent 7 years working across a number of policy, strategy and delivery roles. She went on to lead the implementation of one of its core elements – common data infrastructure- in her role as Head of Data Infrastructure. In this role Ade focused on understanding the needs of users (within and outside) of government data and building a range of data products designed to meet those needs.

Prior to GDS, Ade worked at Nortel, a telecoms equipment vendor. While at Nortel, Ade worked in a number of roles and across a number of areas including product acceptance testing, sales and design and representing Nortel at international technical standards bodies such as 3GPP, IETF etc. These roles gave her a really good understanding of clients’ business needs as well as the commercial and strategic drivers for them, and the value of the right technology for meeting those needs.