DACS Reviewers & Contributors

DACS has been reviewed by experienced leaders and practitioners across data architecture, governance, analytics, information management, enterprise architecture, and executive decision accountability. Their feedback has helped strengthen the clarity, applicability, and operating boundaries of the framework.
Reviewer participation is advisory. Inclusion does not imply authorship, certification, formal approval, or endorsement of every provision of DACS.

Founding Authors and DACS Leadership

Dan Linstedt

CEO, DataVaultAlliance Holdings, LLC and Co-Author, Originator of DACS.

Cindi Meyersohn

COO, DataVaultAlliance Holdings, LLC and Co-Author, Originator of DACS.

DACS Reviewers & Contributors

Scott Ambler

Data Methodologist | Author | Trainer
Ambysoft Inc.

Scott Ambler is a Data Methodologist with Ambysoft Inc., leading the evolution of the Agile Data and Agile Modeling methods. Scott is an international keynote speaker and the (co-)author of 31 books. Scott’s latest book is Not Just Data: How to Deliver Continuous Enterprise Data.

Initial Reviewer of DACS Complete Solution

Bill Inmon

Author, Writer, Father of Data Warehousing
LLM Management
Bill is the father of data warehousing, has sold over 1,500,000 books in his life, wrote the best seller BUILDING THE DATA WAREHOUSE (sold 500,000) copies, was named by ComputerWorld as one of the top ten influencers in the history of computing. Bill developed Textual ETL, technology for the disambiguation of text.

Initial Reviewer of Data Architecture on DACS.

Kent Graziano

Data Warrior
Kent is a retired senior data architect and strategic advisor, expert in Data Vault and Snowflake. He is a Data Vault Grandmaster, CDVP2.1 certified, the 1st Snowflake Data Superhero, Knight of the Oaktable, Oracle ACE Director (Alumni), and a Grandmaster and 8th degree black belt in traditional TaeKwon Do.
https://kentGraziano.com

Initial Reviewer of DACS Complete Documentation

Robert S. (Bob) Seiner

President & Principle
KIK Consulting & Educational Services
Robert S. (Bob) Seiner has spent more than 25 years shaping the practice of Data Governance, earning recognition as one of the industry’s influential thought leaders. As President and Principal of KIK Consulting & Educational Services, he has advised organizations across the globe. Bob created Non-Invasive Data Governance® – the groundbreaking approach captured in his NIDG book series – and recently extended that thinking through The Data Catalyst³. As Adjunct Faculty and Lecturer in Carnegie Mellon University’s Executive Education CDAIO program, Bob is helping future leaders navigate the rapidly evolving worlds of AI governance, responsible AI, and trusted Data and AI.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-s-seiner-445313/

Initial Reviewer of DACS Governance Approaches

Ross Leher

CEO
WAND Taxonomies, Inc
Ross Leher is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WAND, Inc. Mr. Leher, whose background includes international commerce, trade, and retailing, has a proven record of growing innovative
businesses in highly competitive markets. WAND has developed structured vocabularies with related tools and services to improve the performance of 140+ enterprise applications. WAND’s Taxonomy Library contains more than 100 domain specific taxonomies WAND data can be integrated into a wide
variety of enterprise applications. Mr. Leher is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Economics.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-leher-4471971/

Initial Reviewer of DACS Semantics, Ontologies and Taxonomies