Christian J. Ward serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Data Officer at Yext, where he helps organizations identify, structure, and apply their data to drive results in AI and search.
A seasoned data strategist and co-author of the Amazon bestseller Data Leverage: Unlocking the Surprising Growth Potential of Data Partnerships, Christian has led global data initiatives at Arizent, Data Axle, and Thomson Reuters and advised Fortune 500 companies on large-scale data transformation. He frequently speaks at major industry events, and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Adweek, Fortune, and Forbes.
