Sebastian (“Basti”) joined Vista in 2019 after 12 years at McKinsey & Co, where he was a partner leading global projects to help clients develop world class data and analytics capabilities for commercial and ops use cases. Today, Basti is leading Vista to become one of the most iconic data and analytics companies through its data talent, strategy, culture, tech stack and operating model. Key element of his vision is to treat data as product and build scalable data products in cross-functional teams on a data mesh architecture. He holds a Ph. D. from Technische Universität Munich.