Staff Directory
Deputy Chief Data Officer: Marcus Thornton
About Marcus Thornton
Marcus Thornton serves as the Deputy Chief Data Officer (CDO) for the Commonwealth and is from Danville, Virginia. He has worked in software engineering for the last 20 years. Before becoming the Deputy CDO, he worked for a data company that specializes in the collection of retail pricing data across all of North America. He creates new partnerships between the Office of Data Governance and Analytics and Commonwealth agencies and shows them how sharing data across the Commonwealth can be leveraged to make more informed decisions and increase their own efficiencies.
Director of Data Governance
Chris Burroughs
chris.burroughs@odga.virginia.gov
Data Engagement Manager
Jessi Bailey
jessi.bailey@odga.virginia.gov
Director of Data Engineering and Architecture
Chris Wooten
chris.wooten@odga.virginia.gov