Randy Bean has been an advisor to Fortune 1000 organizations on Data & AI leadership for over 4 decades.  He is a senior advisor, board member, keynote speaker and moderator, contributing author, and ex founder and CEO.  Randy has been a participant, observer, chronicler, and leader in the field of data and AI for more than 4 decades. 

Randy is the bestselling author of Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI, and a regular contributor to Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review.  He was a former contributor to The Wall Street Journal and has been referenced and quoted on AI leadership in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist .  

Randy currently serves as a Senior Advisor to IconIQ Capital, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), DataIQ, .406 Ventures, GAI Insights, Odgers, Ataccama, and Promethium.   He was previously founder and CEO of NewVantage Partners (NVP), a Data & AI leadership advisory firm to Fortune 1000 clients, which he founded in 2001. NVP was acquired by Paris-based global consultancy Wavestone in 2021, where he served as Innovation Fellow until January 2024.   Before that, Randy was a Founding Executive with 2 venture backed startup firms which were funded by Kleiner Perkins and North Bridge Venture Partners, a Senior Vice President and Business Head with Harte-Hanks, a global database marketing pioneer, and began his career in IT and strategic planning for Bank of Boston, now Bank of America. 

Randy is a globally recognized leader panel moderator and keynote speaker on the topics of Data & AI leadership, delivering business value from Data & AI investments, and organizational transformation and change.  He has organized and moderated the Chief Data Officer (CDO) keynote panel for the MIT Chief Data Officer Symposium for the past 10 years and serves on their advisory board.  Randy has been a guest lecturer at the Carnegie Mellon CDAIO Certificate Program since 2020 and currently moderates over a dozen CDO panels and roundtable discussions each year.   His annual Data & AI Executive Leadership Survey, launched in 2012, has become the industry benchmark.   He was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025 for his work in the fields of data and AI.

Randy is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he currently serves on the National Council Board for the College of Arts and Sciences.   He resides in Boston, MA and Stonington Borough, CT.  You can follow him on LinkedIn.