Daniela Kato

Daniela Kato is an accomplished Data Governance Manager at Zalando, since July 2022, leading interdisciplinary teams to implement large-scale data governance within a Data Mesh framework. Daniela specializes in establishing central data standards, operationalizing key data products, and promoting best practices in data management while emphasizing a cost-frugal mindset. Prior to Zalando, Daniela held roles at MetLife as a Data Governance professional, where end-to-end governance policies and tooling were implemented, and at Daimler AG as a Data Governance Program Manager responsible for organization-wide data governance initiatives. Daniela's earlier experience includes a data scientist role at Saint-Gobain and research as a PhD student at the University of Cologne, focusing on the intersection of computer science and psychology.