Our Director and Principal Consultant, Swapnil Kothari is a seasoned data & analytics leader with over 15 years of experience translating business challenges into scalable, value-driven data solutions. Based in Sydney and working directly with senior stakeholders, Swapnil specialises in data strategy, governance, architecture modelling and data management — helping organisations harness their data as a strategic asset.

Throughout his career, Swapnil has held key roles across consulting and enterprise environments, delivering high-impact solutions across financial services, IT consulting and enterprise data engineering. His deep technical expertise, combined with strong business acumen, enables him to bridge the gap between technical teams and executive leadership.

Swapnil’s core capabilities include:

• Crafting and operationalising enterprise data strategies aligned to business outcomes.

• Developing robust data architectures and implementing scalable platforms that support analytics, AI and operational use-cases.

• Leading data-quality and metadata-management programmes to establish trusted, high-integrity data foundations.

• Mentoring and building high-performing cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and data-literacy.

• Extensive experience of implementing modern data architectures (data mesh, cloud native, data-product thinking).

Outside of his hands-on delivery and leadership work, Swapnil is a passionate trainer and speaker — sharing his knowledge via workshops and sessions that aim to empower organisations and professionals to get more value from their data.

Certified in TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture and CDMP (DAMA-DMBoK® Data Management), he combines technical depth with strategic insight to help organisations harness data as a true business asset. Swapnil is also a certified Microsoft Fabric Analyst, and has applied the Data Architecture concepts using cutting-edge cloud and data-engineering solutions using both Microsoft and Snowflake.