Datagewijs · Interim data management · Financial services
Data management, from strategy to everyday practice.
Datagewijs is the independent consultancy of Robert Hol, with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of business, data and IT: at tier 1 banks, institutional asset managers and on the vendor side of enterprise data management. Depending on what your organisation needs, I step in as:
Services
Helping complex, highly regulated organisations drive their data transformation, bringing technology, people, process and governance together.
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Interim data leadership
Designing, structuring and leading data management and governance functions, and growing the data maturity of the organisation through target operating models, team building and coaching.
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Data governance
Governance frameworks that meet BCBS 239, covering data ownership, data lineage and data quality management, with platforms such as Collibra, Microsoft Purview and Informatica.
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Enterprise data management
Reference and market data platforms, in particular Gresham Prime EDM and Opus EDM: data modelling, vendor integration, implementation and optimisation.
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Data products and AI readiness
Product management and product ownership for data products and business solutions, from vision and roadmap to delivery, and functional advice on bringing AI agents and dynamic validation into reference and market data.
Selected experience
Both sides of the table: building enterprise data management solutions, and making them work inside banks and asset managers.
Dutch tier 1 bank · 2022–2025
Senior data management consultant
Implementing the data management strategy in the finance domain: shaping the data governance framework and improving data lineage and data quality tooling and processes, in line with BCBS 239.
International asset manager · 2017–2022
Manager data management
Built the data management function from the ground up, then professionalised and matured it while leading it day to day. Led the project team that merged four data management and data governance departments into one global unit as part of the move to a global target operating model, including consolidating the market data vendor landscape. Also led the build of a central reporting data warehouse and the decommissioning of high-risk end-user computing.
Global investment bank · 2014–2016
Asset Control subject matter expert
Functional expert on the Asset Control platform that fed the trading risk scenario engine. Assessed and optimised its set-up for data quality and processing speed, and made sure it delivered the right risk factors to a new scenario engine for stress testing.
Asset Control (now Gresham) · 2003–2014
Senior product manager and business analyst
End-to-end owner of the reference and master data product line that is now Prime EDM. Functional owner of integrations with Bloomberg, Refinitiv, SIX, IDC and rating agencies; trainer for clients and partners worldwide.
Dutch insurer · 2000–2003
Head of regional offices
Turned data into steering information: analysed, defined and rolled out a new portfolio management information system for the commercial field organisation, launched digital mortgage quotations, and merged two regional organisations into one.
Dutch tier 1 bank · 1995–2000
Senior securities operations specialist
Where the data foundation was laid: departmental project lead for the euro and Y2K transitions, translating both into structural system and process changes, and structurally resolving complex position and payment discrepancies.
About me
I am Robert Hol, founder of Datagewijs: Dutch for ‘data-wise’. I studied business administration for the financial sector at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and started my career in securities operations at a Dutch tier 1 bank.
For eleven years I helped build the enterprise data management solution that is now Gresham Prime EDM. Since then I have brought that knowledge to the other side of the table: leading data management and governance at banks and asset managers, where strategy has to turn into processes, systems and people that work.
Certified Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe practitioner, and grounded in the DAMA DMBoK framework. Outside work I am a sailing instructor at Zeilenderwijs, and I have completed two long-distance sailing voyages, including an Atlantic circuit. A long passage and a complex project ask for the same things: good preparation, a calm head and correcting course in time.
20+
years in financial data management
11
years building EDM solutions at Asset Control
14
successful data project deliveries
Let's talk
Looking for interim data leadership, a governance programme that needs to land, or an EDM implementation that needs someone who knows the platform from the inside? Get in touch.