a little bit about us,
caroline and peter
Carruthers and Jackson was founded by global leaders in data transformation, Caroline Carruthers, and Peter Jackson, to support organisations to fully drive the value of their data.
With so many exciting developments being made around innovations, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, organisations first need to get their data right to ensure the right foundations.
At Carruthers and Jackson, we place data literacy at the heart, ensuring an organisational wide approach to data transformation.
As authors of best-selling books Data Driven Business Transformation and The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook, Caroline Carruthers, and Peter Jackson, embed their principles, models, practical, hands on approach combined with their years of experience in leading data driven businesses, to transform organisations across the world.
Caroline Carruthers
Co-Founder
Caroline is an award-winning data expert and co-founder of global data consultancy Carruthers and Jackson. She was one of the first women to take on the role of Chief Data Officer in the UK public sector for Network Rail and has worked across multiple industries to build data capability from the ground up, delivering real change to each organisation around how they valued their data as an asset.
Caroline has authored several best-selling books on the role of data in organisations, including the renowned “chief Data Officer’s Playbook” and the bestselling “Data Driven Business Transformation.” Working alongside co-author, and co-founder of Carruthers and Jackson, Peter Jackson, Caroline now consults public, private and charity sector organisations around the world on how to get the most out of their data.
Caroline was named one of the top 20 inspirational female role models in data by The Female Lead in 2018 and won Computing’s Rising Stars Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2020 for her work consulting major international organisations on their data operations.
Peter Jackson
Co-Founder
Peter is currently Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Exasol and a Director at Carruthers and Jackson. In previous roles he had a global role as Group Director of Data Science at Legal & General and Chief Data Officer of Legal and General Investment Management. Before joining Legal and General Peter was Chief Data Officer at Southern Water and prior to that, Head of Data at The Pensions Regulator (TPR).
Peter is a specialist in Data Strategy, Data Technologies, Master Data Management Strategies, Data Governance Frameworks, GDPR and Data Science. Peter is the co-author of ‘The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook’, published by Facet in November 2017, ‘Data-Driven Business Transformation’, published by Wiley in March 2019 and 2nd edition ‘The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook’, published in 2020.
Peter is an international speaker on Data, Innovation and business transformation and co-founded the Chief Data Officers’ Summer School, which has an international alumni of 1000+.
