Tom Betts (Past Speaker)

Tom is a member of the Financial Times Board having first joined the business in 2009. He is responsible for the smart use of data to drive the FT's business and leads a globally-focused team with analysts based in the US, UK and Asia. Prior to his current role he worked in education as VP Analytics at Pearson where he instigated the use of data to optimise professional learning. He also previously worked in a consultancy capacity both independently and for a UK-based customer data and analytics consultancy (Detica) where he was responsible for customer analytics and leading large scale data mining projects across multinationals in telecoms, financial services and government.