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Corinne Valdemar-Achebe

Chief Data Officer
Minneapolis, MN, United States

Professional Summary

Chief Data Officer with 18 years building enterprise data, analytics, and AI programs across retail and healthcare. Led a 140-person data organization, consolidated 37 legacy warehouses onto a governed lakehouse, and delivered $86M in measurable annual value from pricing, supply-chain, and personalization models. Board-facing leader on data governance, privacy (HIPAA, CCPA), and responsible AI. Certifications: CDMP Master (DAMA), 2019; Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, 2021.

Employment History

Chief Data Officer
Northstar Retail Group · Minneapolis, MN
Mar, 2020 · Present
Built and lead a 140-person data, analytics, and ML organization across 6 business units with a $48M annual budget. Consolidated 37 legacy data marts onto a single cloud lakehouse, cutting infrastructure spend 31% ($9.4M/year). Launched dynamic pricing and markdown models across 1,200 stores, lifting gross margin 140 bps. Stood up an enterprise data governance council and data catalog covering 4,800 certified datasets. Created a responsible AI review board and model risk framework adopted by the audit committee.
VP, Enterprise Analytics
Meridian Health Partners · St. Paul, MN
Jun, 2015 · Feb, 2020
Led 55 analysts and engineers delivering clinical, claims, and operational analytics for 22 hospitals. Deployed a readmission-risk model that reduced 30-day readmissions 12% and saved $14M annually. Achieved HIPAA-compliant self-service BI for 3,000 users, reducing ad hoc report requests 60%.
Director, Data Engineering and BI
Lakeside Commerce · Chicago, IL
Aug, 2011 · May, 2015
Built the company's first enterprise data warehouse and real-time order analytics pipeline. Grew the team from 6 to 28 and introduced agile delivery, cutting dashboard lead time from 6 weeks to 5 days.
Senior Data Analyst
Lakeside Commerce · Chicago, IL
Jul, 2008 · Jul, 2011
Developed customer segmentation and lifetime-value models that guided a $20M loyalty program redesign.

Education

MS, Statistics
University of Minnesota
2008
BS, Mathematics and Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2006

Skills

Data Strategy
Data Governance
Machine Learning
Lakehouse Architecture
Snowflake
Databricks
Python
SQL
Privacy and Compliance
Responsible AI
Executive Leadership
Budget Management

Languages

English · native
Spanish · fluent