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Experience & outcomes

Enterprise Judgment Grounded in Operating Experience

More than 20 years connecting executive priorities, data, architecture, governance, risk, and transformation inside complex institutions.

Two decades of executive experience across

  • Mastercard
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • BNY Mellon
  • GE

Robert Peterkins

Managing Director, Enterprise Data & AI Strategy

Robert Peterkins is an executive advisor and enterprise Data and AI leader with more than 20 years of experience across Mastercard, JPMorgan Chase, BNY Mellon, and GE. His work sits between executive intent and technical execution: clarifying direction, aligning accountability, challenging architecture and vendor assumptions, and translating strategy into structured, executable outcomes.

Robert has led enterprise Data Strategy, governance, architecture, technology-risk, cloud-modernization, and transformation initiatives in complex, regulated environments. He is particularly effective when a consequential decision crosses business objectives, technical platforms, data, risk, operating models, vendors, and organizational boundaries.

Through Bridgeway Advisory Group, clients receive direct access to Robert's judgment and experience. He establishes direction and guides execution decisions while enabling internal teams and implementation partners to do their best work.

Selected experience

Where this judgment was formed

Bridgeway Advisory Group

Managing Director, Enterprise Data & AI Strategy

  • Advises executives on enterprise Data and AI strategy, governance, architecture, operating models, transformation, and execution readiness.
  • Led strategy-to-execution work spanning target architecture, enterprise data modeling, platform design, migration planning, implementation oversight, governance, organization design, and steering-committee alignment.
  • Provides independent guidance through focused advisory and expert-network engagements.

Mastercard

Senior Vice President, Data Strategy & Client Services

  • Led enterprise Data Strategy and professional-services engagements connecting business outcomes, customer experience, data integration, cloud architecture, governance, and execution.
  • Delivered a 4% sales lift for a national retailer through improved point-of-sale, marketing, data, and analytics capabilities.
  • Improved onboarding by 12% by integrating more than 40 data sources into a centralized data and Salesforce ecosystem.
  • Reduced platform costs by 15% through cloud modernization of payment-processing capabilities.
  • Developed enterprise data strategy and governance for a $30 billion credit union.

BNY Mellon

Senior Group Manager, Data Strategy & Technology Risk

  • Led Data Strategy and technology-risk initiatives supporting complex global financial operations.
  • Designed a migration strategy involving $3.6 trillion in collateral assets.
  • Defined data strategy for U.S. Treasury settlement platforms supporting 90 markets and 24 primary dealers.
  • Strengthened governance and data quality supporting a Corporate Trust business with $18.6 billion in revenue.

JPMorgan Chase

Vice President, Enterprise Data Architecture & Governance

  • Redesigned data architecture and governance across more than 80 applications to address regulatory, technology-risk, GDPR, and BCBS 239 requirements.
  • Architected an FFIEC 101 environment integrating 24 systems of record and more than 8,000 data attributes.
  • Worked across business, architecture, source-system, engineering, risk, governance, and regulatory stakeholders.

GE

Vice President, Business Data Integration

  • Led enterprise data-integration, warehouse, risk-data, and regulatory-reporting initiatives.
  • Coordinated multi-site employee, contractor, center-of-excellence, and offshore delivery teams.

Credentials

Credentials and contributions

  • EDM Council accreditation in Responsible AI, Analytics & Data
  • Contributor and co-author of the AI Data Governance section of DCAM v3
  • Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals
  • Longstanding involvement in senior technology-leadership and professional communities
  • Mentor supporting the advancement of women and underrepresented leaders in Data and technology

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