Creating Value. Building Opportunity. Delivering Impact.
Global Data Vision was founded in 2020 on a simple belief: Every organization has untapped opportunities. Our mission is to help leaders discover those opportunities, transform ideas into action, and create measurable business value through technology, expertise, and execution.
We don't just advise — We Build
Many firms deliver recommendations. Others provide software. GDV combines executive expertise, innovation strategy, advanced technology, and rapid execution to help organizations transform opportunities into measurable business outcomes. That's the difference.
Why organizations partner with GDV
20+ Years of Executive Experience
Decades of commercial leadership across associations, industry, technology, and market development.
Innovation as a Service
Human led. AI enabled.
Multiple Industries
Associations — Government — Standards — Technology.
Digital Ecosystems
Designed to evolve — not remain static.
GDV helps organizations discover opportunities they didn't know they had — and then builds them.
Global Data Vision Leadership
Lakshmy Mahon
Founder & CEO, Global Data Vision
Lakshmy Mahon is the Founder and CEO of Global Data Vision (GDV), an innovation and growth company helping organizations identify new opportunities, build stronger digital ecosystems, and turn ideas into measurable business outcomes.
Lakshmy brings more than two decades of experience across commercial strategy, product development, technology, training, certification, market development, and industry engagement. Prior to founding Global Data Vision, she spent more than 16 years with the American Petroleum Institute (API), where she served as Director of Global Industry Services and led commercial businesses spanning certification, intellectual property and distribution, training, and safety programs.
Throughout her career, Lakshmy has worked across industry, associations, government, regulators, universities, standards organizations, and international markets to develop programs and solutions that connect organizations with the communities they serve.
Today, she leads Global Data Vision's expansion beyond traditional consulting through GDV Bridge, the company's Innovation as a Service platform. GDV combines executive expertise, strategy, technology, and rapid execution to help organizations discover opportunities, launch new products and services, strengthen customer and member engagement, create new revenue streams, and build industry ecosystems designed for continuous growth.
Lakshmy's approach is grounded in a simple belief: the best opportunities often already exist inside an organization — they simply need to be discovered, connected, and built.
US Small Business Association Certified
Certified to:
- ✓Provide technology solutions to businesses
- ✓Use real customer data and technology to help optimize commercial goals
- ✓Address customer-related product gaps
Goals:
- ✓Achieve revenue growth
- ✓Navigate technology-based objectives
- ✓Support strategy-based objectives
- ✓Create a global community for organizational engagement
GDV supports US Small Business initiatives and is proud to be a certified small business partner.
This certifies that
Global Data Vision
is an official participant of the
FREEDOM 250
Small Business Initiative