About
Who you actually work with
PaWa Data Solutions is a Toronto-based boutique consultancy. Engagements are led by senior practitioners, not handed to junior teams — so it is worth knowing who they are.
Papa S. Nguer
VP, Solutions Engineering — PaWa Data Solutions
Financial Services · Data & AI · Enterprise Architecture
Papa S. Nguer brings more than two decades of experience helping organizations turn complex data challenges into business outcomes.
He joined PaWa Data Solutions as Managing Principal in 2025 and now serves as VP, Solutions Engineering. He brings together deep technical expertise, customer strategy and a career spent working alongside some of North America’s largest and most complex organizations.
Before PaWa Data, Papa spent nearly two decades at Informatica, most recently leading Technical Sales in Canada. During his final four years, he influenced more than $93 million in revenue and played a role in virtually every Informatica opportunity across the Canadian market.
But Papa’s experience is measured by more than revenue.
Over his career, he has led more than 300 customer-facing proving engagements — turning architecture diagrams, business requirements, and ambitious ideas into working solutions that customers could see, test, and trust. His work has supported organizations including JPMorgan Chase, PNC, CIBC, Scotiabank, Manulife, Sun Life, CN Rail, Air Canada, and Bell Canada.
His deepest expertise sits at the intersection of financial services and data: KYC and AML, entity resolution, master data management, data governance, lineage, integration, and regulatory reporting. He understands not only how these systems are built, but what it takes for the resulting data to be trusted by business users, regulators, and auditors.
That perspective is central to PaWa Data’s approach: technology matters, but outcomes matter more.
Papa is also an active industry speaker, presenting at more than ten events annually, including DAFS, CDAO Canada, and national programs alongside Deloitte, Accenture, and Microsoft. He is the author of Winning the Moments That Matter.
Beyond technology, Papa is co-founder and managing board member of the SEN Yakaar Foundation, a Canadian non-profit supporting health, education, and community-development initiatives in Senegal and across Africa.
Born in West Africa and based in Toronto, Papa has lived on three continents and travelled to more than 29 countries. He works in both English and French and brings that international perspective to PaWa Data’s belief that the best data solutions combine global expertise, local understanding, and measurable impact.
The engagements above were delivered at Informatica, before PaWa Data Solutions. They are professional background, not this firm's client work.
Credentials
- CISSP
- TOGAF
- Microsoft Azure
- Informatica Certified
- BSc Computer Science
Jason Thien Vo
Principal and Co-Founder, PaWa Data Solutions
Jason Thien Vo is Principal and Co-Founder of PaWa Data Solutions, with more than 25 years of specialised expertise in enterprise data management: integration and data engineering, master data management, and data governance. More than two decades of that was spent at the front of the industry, including a long tenure leading complex architecture and delivery at Informatica.
He works directly with enterprise leaders to resolve multi-system data fragmentation, establish rigorous governance and entity resolution, and implement scalable, audit-ready data foundations — turning fragmented data landscapes into trusted, high-impact enterprise assets.
Why PaWa exists
Nearly two decades on the vendor side is a long time to watch the same pattern repeat: a platform gets bought, a large integrator staffs the project, and eighteen months later the client owns a system nobody internally can explain. The technology was rarely the problem. PaWa was built to do the opposite—small, senior, and actually finished.
What being small changes
Boutique is not a limitation we are apologising for. It changes who does the work, and what you are left holding at the end of it.
Senior access, not senior sales
The person who scopes the engagement is the person who delivers it. Nobody is introduced during the pitch and replaced on day one.
Accountability with a name on it
There is no delivery organisation to absorb a missed commitment. When something slips, you hear it from the person responsible, early.
Vendor neutrality, earned the hard way
Nearly two decades selling one vendor's platform is a thorough education in how these tools get positioned. There is no reseller margin here and no partner quota, so the recommendation is just the recommendation.
Built to leave you stronger
Knowledge transfer is a deliverable, not a closing formality. The test of an engagement is whether your team can run and change what was built without us.
How we engage
- Scope tightly. A narrow engagement that finishes beats a broad one that stalls.
- Say what the data actually shows, including when it undermines the plan.
- Design for the team that inherits it, not for the architecture diagram.
- Leave documentation a new hire can follow.
Start with a conversation
A short call with the person who would lead the work. No discovery deck, no qualification script.
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