Member Spotlight - Collibra Inc.

Meet Trevor Trodd - Canadian Country Manager  

Tell us a little about your organization and why you got into this space

​Collibra was founded in 2008 in Brussels. We are now headquartered in the U.S. with a diverse global footprint, with representation in the U.S., Belgium, Australia, Czech Republic, France, Poland and the U.K. As of early 2022, we have over 500 customers and over 1100 employees across the world.
 
I joined Collibra a little over 5 years ago and helped open up the Canadian Market.  I’ve seen a lot of growth in the maturity and the needs of large enterprises to be able to better leverage their data in a safe and ethical way.  Regulatory needs and competitive pressures have been balancing forces which shape the way our customers use and protect their data - and their customers’ data.

​Who are your clients and what types of regulatory challenges are they facing?
 
Globally, Collibra serves many of the largest customers in the world across a variety of industries, including financial services, public sector, retail, energy, healthcare, and life sciences.  All of these business verticals have their own intense regulatory pressures.  We help the knowledge workers to be able to find, understand, and trust the data that is needed to do their jobs, while accelerating compliance reporting and creating transparency around data flows.  We allow teams to demonstrate end-to-end governance and control of data at every step.
 
Specifically in the financial services market, we’ve worked with customers to help solve challenges around BCBS 239, CCAR, Liquidity 5G, FRTB, MiFID II, NFRR, Solvency II, and, more recently, IFRS-17. 
 
 
Can you describe your underlying technology and what’s on your product roadmap for the next major planned release?
 
Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud is our end-to-end integrated platform that automates data workflows, provides deep visibility into the data ecosystem, ensures security and delivers trusted insights. It provides business, data governance and privacy users with a streamlined means of accessing trusted data, which they can then analyze with the tools they already use.
 
We bring flexible governance, continuous quality, and built-in privacy to customer data, so they not only know what data they have, they can understand what it means and be confident they're using it in the right way. And no matter where data is stored or who needs it, users can easily access and always trust it.
 
How it works:
 
Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud Platform connects to customers' data sources and ingests metadata, without moving any data.  Customers can govern their data, ensure it’s trustworthy, and make that trusted data accessible to the entire organization.
 
Through our data catalog, data lineage, data governance, data quality and data privacy capabilities, the metadata is enriched with business context, such as data domains, business term definitions,