Beth Ladd is the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Information, Data Empowerment and Assurance for Information Strategy and Services. Previously, Beth served as the Vice President for Innovation for the American Supply Association, where she led the first national-level data governance council and built the Distribution Next Innovation Lab. Before joining ASA, Beth directed Caterpillar’s global Innovation Labs as the Information Analytics R&D Manager. She also held key roles at Illinois State University and the University of Illinois system, where she established and supported centralized Institutional Data Warehouses and business intelligence tool sets. In her current capacity, Beth oversees a diverse portfolio of information and data services, include scoping, architecting, and delivering data solutions to business information problems utilizing a combination of data warehousing and business intelligence frameworks as well as data literacy & education, managed access, governed, trusted, and aligned administrative data sources for data-supported operational and analytical decision making. She holds an MBA from the University of Saint Mary and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Eastern Illinois University.