Advisory Board Member Profile 2018
Allison Sagraves
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M&T Bank
Chief Data Officer and Senior Vice President 
Areas of Expertise
Big Data Strategy; Big Data & Marketing; Reducing Risk Through Big Data; Driving Innovation with Big Data
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Allison Sagraves is the Chief Data Officer for M & T Bank. Allison joined M&T Bank after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1991. During her tenure at M&T Bank, Allison has held leadership roles in many functions – operations management, technology, finance, marketing, and risk. Prior to obtaining her MBA, Allison worked for American Express, Deloitte, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and International Paper.
Allison is also a graduate of Smith College, where she was an honors graduate in economics and government. She was a White House Intern, and during her tenure was promoted to be the Assistant Staff Secretary to the President and at age 19 became the youngest member of the White House Staff. Allison has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences on such topics as enterprise data management, women’s leadership, globalization, and change management. She gave a Tedx Talk on Citizen Data Science in 2016. Her talk on “Gravitas: The Leader’s Edge,” was named by Ellevate Network as Best of 2014 for a women’s professional development talk.
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