Catherine Wilks
Partner and UK lead for Data, Analytics and AI
BDO
Catherine is the lead for Data, Analytics and AI capability across the UK at BDO. Her career spans data strategy, governance, business intelligence and advanced analytics, giving her a broad perspective on how data can unlock value across industries.
Catherine has a proven track record of delivering transformative data solutions, including a customer portal leveraging React and Databricks, enabling a logistics client to increase annual revenue by 30% through a data platform shift, integrating fragmented data landscapes for automotive clients, building global risk management dashboards consolidating over 40 data sources and designing data management for the UK Armed Forces.
She is recognised as one of the UK's Top 50 Data Leaders and Influencers and is a recipient of the UK Data Leaders Award. Catherine is also an experienced non-executive director, serving on boards since 2016.
Catherine is passionate about developing high-performing teams and driving commercial growth through data-driven innovation.