About Me

Steve Buckingham

I'm proven at leading data teams that deliver growth and innovation. I develop effective data strategies and have led teams with impact across reporting, analysis, engineering and ML and AI.

Outside of work, I live with my wife, two children and our dog in Prenzlauer Berg. As well as data, I'm very interested in politics and also enjoy cycling, cooking and history.

Work Experience

VP of Data, Taxfix

2022 - Present

Leading the data, analytics and machine learning capability of Taxfix as we help customers across Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK file their taxes and gain their refunds.

Director of Data, Contentful

2018 - 2022

Led the data function at Contentful as we grew from USD10M of ARR to almost USD200M and developed the teams as we grew from a small group of 4 to 25 people and teams across platform, data science, analytics and intelligence.

Group Head of Data Architecture, Annalect

2016 - 2018

Led the development of the data platform, architecture and engineering within Annalect UK. Annalect is the analytics and data science division of Omnicom Media Group.

CRM Development Manager, BBC Worldwide

2014 - 2016

Delivered customer focused CRM, reporting and analysis solutions for BBC Worldwide. I led the migration of our CRM data to AWS and developed a new Single Customer View together with and related campaign and reporting solutions.

Solution Architect, Sky IQ

2011 - 2014

Delivering reliable customer focused solutions for business intelligence, reporting, analysis, marketing campaign planning, design, execution and response management.

Head of Campaign Technology, The Labour Party

2007 - 2011

I was responsible for designing and commissioning innovative solutions to ensure that technology is useful, accessible, efficient and forward looking. Key projects managed include The Labour Party’s national campaign database, introduction of a new membership system and the integration of online, print and direct mail tools into a single communications platform.