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Head of Data Governance Penguin Random House UK

Kerry Philips is Head of Data Governance at Penguin Random House UK, with extensive experience spanning the retail sector and, more recently, publishing. She specialises in designing and implementing data governance frameworks that improve data quality, strengthen compliance, and embed a culture of trust around data use.

Kerry is passionate about positioning data governance as a strategic enabler rather than a constraint. She focuses on empowering colleagues to make confident, informed decisions by ensuring access to well-governed, reliable data. By setting clear objectives and aligning governance practices with business needs, she helps organisations unlock measurable value from their data assets.

At Penguin Random House UK, Kerry leads initiatives that not only safeguard the organisation’s data but also support its broader transformation goals. Her collaborative and pragmatic approach ensures governance is understood, embraced, and embedded across teams, enabling publishing decisions that are innovative, resilient, and future-ready.

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Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, relies on data to power every part of its global business, from supply chain operations to editorial workflows and royalty reconciliation. As the complexity of PRH’s dbt pipelines grew, manual checks and brittle tests could no longer keep pace. The Data Governance team knew they needed a smarter, scalable approach to ensure trusted data.

In this session, Kerry Philips, Head of Data Governance at Penguin Random House, will reveal how the team transformed data quality using Sifflet’s observability platform. Learn how PRH integrated column-level lineage, business-rule-aware logic, and real-time alerts into a single workspace, turning fragmented testing into a cohesive strategy for trust, transparency, and agility.

Attendees will gain actionable insights on:

- Rapidly deploying observability without disrupting existing dbt workflows

- Encoding business logic into automated data tests

- Reducing incident resolution times and freeing engineers to innovate

- Empowering analysts to act on data with confidence

If you’ve ever wondered how a company managing millions of ISBNs ensures every dashboard tells the truth, this session offers a behind-the-scenes look at how data observability became PRH’s newest bestseller.