Cindi Meyersohn is a highly influential leader in the data-warehousing world, serving as Chief Operating Officer of DataVaultAlliance Holdings, LLC (DVA) and as founder of DataRebels, LLC. With more than three decades in IT and data engineering, she has been instrumental in advancing the methodology, adoption, and education of the Data Vault family of practices.

Career Highlights & Leadership

Cindi began her professional journey in the early 1980s, building foundational experience in large-scale telecom systems and moving into consulting for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Her work spanned operations, maintenance, data acquisition, governance and analytics systems.
In years of government-facing roles, she held security clearances and led architecture and data engineering initiatives across high-security DoD projects. For example, she designed and delivered DV2 solutions for defense contexts.
In 2017 she founded DataRebels, LLC – a consulting and training firm born out of her belief that the Data Vault community needed stronger practitioner-education, long-term growth and sustainable methodology development.
As COO of DataVaultAlliance, Cindi works alongside the methodology’s inventor, guiding certification programs, global instructor networks, and practical implementations of Data Vault 2.1 and beyond.

Thought Leadership & Methodology Impact

Cindi is a certified CDVP2® (Certified Data Vault Professional) instructor, one of the global cadre of educators who translate the theory of Data Vault into real-world implementation. Her unique vantage- spanning both public-sector and commercial data warehousing – gives her the credibility to speak to business, technical and government concerns.

Her consulting work emphasizes a consistent theme: bridging business purpose and data architecture. She champions the idea that strong metadata, auditable ingest processes, agile design and enterprise-scale governance are not optional- they are foundational. This aligns powerfully with the Data Vault philosophy of capturing “all the data, all the time” while enabling flexible analytics downstream.

Little-Known but Telling Facts

Before focusing primarily on data warehousing, Cindi worked in telecom and operations/maintenance systems, giving her deep appreciation for legacy systems, technical debt, and the often-unseen infrastructure burdens many analytics teams face. Data Rebels+1
Her career includes nearly 18 years of DoD clearance and service, which gives her rare insight into how highly regulated, highly secure environments can apply agile data modelling and still meet strict compliance and audit demands. Data Rebels+1
She likes to say that her mission is to “teach the community to fish -not hand them a fish” – which reflects her deep-felt belief in practitioner empowerment, sustainable learning and building community resilience within the Data Vault ecosystem. Data Rebels

Why Her Role Matters

In an era where data architectures are evolving – cloud, streaming, data-lake/discovery, AI pipelines – the Data Vault methodology is being revisited, refined and re-positioned. Cindi sits at the nexus of that evolution: she ensures that the methodology stays true to its core principles (auditability, historization, scalability) while adapting to modern demands (agile delivery, metadata driven design, self-service analytics). For organizations seeking to implement Data Vault 2.0/2.1 in complex, real-world contexts, her insight is both practical and visionary.

Legacy & Forward Look

Under her leadership, DataVaultAlliance continues to expand its global footprint, certification ecosystem, and practitioner base. With Cindi’s guidance, the methodology is evolving not just in academic or theoretical terms, but in live enterprise adoption – challenging teams to think about how business meaning, agile workflows and scalable data architecture align. For anyone serious about Data Vault, Cindi Meyersohn is a name to know, a resource to trust, and a practitioner whose work matters.