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After obtaining a BS in Civil Engineering from the Univ. of Massachusetts (Amherst), then working in Land Surveying before coming to Switzerland to play pro basketball for 7 years, Tom reoriented in IT for 15 years at ISO, Union Carbide Europe and Serono Pharmaceuticals. Within Serono, now Merck Serono, in 1998 Tom switched into Supply Chain and created a worldwide centralized item management group now looking for better MDM solutions, currently within Oracle software and perhaps in the near future within SAP, the ERP generally used at Merck.
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Alex
Berson |
Alex Berson is an internationally recognized expert, author and educator in various areas of information technologies including Identity Management, Information Security, privacy and compliance; Customer Data Integration, CRM, data warehousing, BI and data mining; SOA and Web Services; integration and middleware. Currently, he is a Research Fellow and Director of the Identity Management practice for the leading global management consulting firm BearingPoint Inc. Mr. Berson is a member of several professional and standards organizations including OMG and OASIS, and sits on technical advisory boards of several technology and services companies. He is also a best-selling author of professional books including “Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration for a Global Enterprise”, “Building Data Mining Applications for CRM”, and "Data Warehousing, Data Mining and OLAP".
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David Besemer began his tenure at Composite in 2002 as VP of Engineering, and transitioned to the CTO role in January 2006. Prior to Composite, he provided software technology intelligence to venture capital firms and was CTO of eStyle, an e-commerce retailer serving the lifestyle needs of women and their families. Earlier in his career, Mr. Besemer ran a successful enterprise software consulting practice, headed software product marketing at NeXT Computer, built program trading systems on Wall Street, and researched natural language processing systems at GE's Corporate R&D center. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Michigan State University and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Paul
Bolton |
Having initially studied
International Business and Economics, Paul Bolton made
the switch at the time of studying for his Masters Degree to focus on
Computer Science, majoring in business analysis. After working for a number
of companies globally, Mr. Bolton returned to his native
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Christopher
Bradley |
Christopher Bradley has spent over 26 years in the data management field, working for several blue-chip organisations in data management strategy, MDM, metadata management, data warehouse and business intelligence implementations. Mr. Bradley first worked for the UK Ministry of Defence on several major naval database systems and on the development of the ICL Data Dictionary System (DDS). His career includes Volvo as lead data base architect, and Thorn EMI as Head of Data Management. Prior to IPL, Mr. Bradley worked in the Management Consultancy group of Coopers & Lybrand establishing the international Data Management specialist practice. During this time he worked upon and led many major assignments including data management strategies, data warehouse implementations and establishment of data governance structures.
Currently,
Mr. Bradley is principal management consultant at IPL, a
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Donna
Burbank |
Donna Burbank is the Director of Enterprise Modeling and Architecture Solutions at Embarcadero Technologies. In this role, Ms. Burbank is responsible for the strategic direction of current and future products and contributes to the long-term architecture and roadmap of the product suite.
Ms. Burbank comes to Embarcadero from Computer Associates, where she worked in the Brand Strategy division, providing strategic direction for the company’s application development and business service optimization product lines, including modeling and metadata management. Previous to this position, she acted as the product manager for the CA/Platinum Repository suite of products. Prior to CA, Ms. Burbank consulted for Platinum Technology, bringing nearly eight years of experience as a consultant in the area of metadata management, working with dozens of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the USA, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Ms. Burbank speaks regularly on the topic of metadata management and has presented at such forums as the Oracle International Users’ Group, DAMA, and CA World. In addition to her speaking engagements, Ms. Burbank has published several articles and publications dealing with metadata management.
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Tony
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Pam
Eng-Wong |
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Mike
Ferguson |
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Noel
Garry |
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Andy Hayler is an established software industry expert, named a Red Herring Top 10 Innovator in 2002. In 2001 Andy founded Kalido as an independent software company. He now advises software companies on strategy and works with venture capital firms on investment due diligence.
At Shell, Andy led a 290-person global consultancy practice, and was Technology Planning Manager of Shell UK Oil. Prior to Shell, Andy worked in a number of senior technology positions within Exxon.
Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences such as ETRE, Red Herring and Gartner. See his award winning blog www.andyonenterprisesoftware.com.
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Neil
Hershaw |
Neil Hershaw is Information Management Officer in the Risk & Analytics function of M&S Money. Mr. Hershaw moved out of IT in 2005 to take this role with the aim of setting up the function within the company. He joined Marks and Spencer Financial Services IT Department in 1989 and worked his way up to IT Manager. Previously, Mr. Hershaw was employed by British Aerospace Group Systems working with and developing their internal systems methodology. During his time in IT, he worked in both the development and IT Services functions. Latterly his work in IT was focused around the design, build and implementation of the “Minerva” Oracle Data Warehouse which has won several industry awards. Mr. Hershaw graduated in 1985 with a BSc in Information Systems.
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Gary Holden is the Enterprise Architect at Allied Bakeries, where he has been for the last 3 years. Previously, Mr. Holden was a consultant with IBM specialising in enterprise application integration, particularly Crossworlds and Websphere Business Integration. More recently Mr. Holden has been implementing a new Enterprise Architecture including portal, workflow & business process management technologies utilising a new Master Data Repository that provides a common platform for MDM.
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Khuram Hussain has over two years experience specific to MDM. One of his major achievements has been the creation of a vendor-independent consulting company which focuses on “business value discovery” to document the business benefits of MDM. This novel approach assist in making master data a strategic business asset which when managed well can provide extreme competitive advantage. Previously, Mr. Hussain focused for 5+ years on Business Process Management, Knowledge Management, and Enterprise Portals. Mr. Hussain has been engaged with some of the world’s major corporations for various enterprise initiatives such as Shell, Stork, Corus, Dutch government, Booker, The Big Food Group. He holds BSc and MSc degrees from Manchester University with a Ph.D from the Open University.
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Jim Jarvie’s 15 year career in the technology industry includes successful software start-ups and well-known public companies. Mr. Jarvie joined Identity Systems in April, 2005 and has world-wide marketing and communications responsibilities. Prior to joining Identity Systems, he played key marketing roles at IBM directing product launches for OS/390, Business Intelligence and Pervasive Computing. Mr. Jarvie has also has experience marketing enterprise solutions while at Intel, Hyperion and Mathematica.
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Andrew
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Andrew Kemp is Head of Group Marketing Programmes and Operations at the Co-operative Group. In 2006, he successfully completed the design, build and implementation of the Group’s new membership scheme. This delivered full end-to-end business change, supported by new IS solutions the programme involved the development of a new system, contact centre set up, multi-channel capability and operational implementation across the Group’s 3,000 trading outlets. With an MBA in Business Administration, Mr. Kemp has held senior marketing and IS positions in both the commercial and education sectors delivering customer-driven technology solutions.
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Justin
LaFayette |
Justin Lafayette is director of Portfolio Strategy for Enterprise Master Data Solutions within the Information Management Division of IBM Software Group. He is responsible for helping develop new solutions products and business strategy for IBM’s master data management software. These offerings are designed to gain control of reference data such as products and customers and related business processes to ensure data is consistently described, used and stored within an organization. Prior to his current position, Mr. Lafayette served as co-founder and chairman of DWL Software where he guided the company’s vision for an enterprise solution allowing companies to behave as a single, customer-centric organization. Under his leadership, DWL developed its CDI software, now called IBM WebSphere Customer Center. The company was purchased by IBM in 2005. Prior to joining DWL Software, Mr. Lafayette was with ING’s technology group where he worked closely with the world’s leading financial services and other organizations over the past nine years on business and customer information technology issues. He holds a degree in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration from Ferris State University.
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Pascal
Laik |
Pascal Laik is the Vice President of Oracle Master Data Management (MDM) Product Strategy. His group’s responsibilities include the definition and execution of Oracle internal and external investments in the Master Data Management area as well as supporting Oracle MDM sales, marketing and professional services effort. Prior to that position Pascal led the Customer Data Integration (CDI) Oracle/Siebel practice in EMEA. This responsibility included sales and delivery of CDI based solutions and projects. Prior to that position, Pascal was Product Line Manager in the CDI product at Siebel within the Product Marketing organization. In that respect Pascal was in charge of the product direction, development and marketing of the CDI business integration applications across horizontal and vertical Siebel product lines. Pascal has a Master of Science in Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), Paris France and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Wharton School from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a major in Finance in May 2000 with distinction.
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Scott
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Scott Lee has been solving increasingly complex data integration problems for global businesses for over a decade. Mr. Lee is currently Chief Architect of the Information Architecture directorate at R.R. Donnelley, and he is responsible for the consolidation, quality, and dissemination of master data throughout the enterprise. He has been a senior solutions architect and strategist there for the past five years. He is a contributor to professional publications such as BI Review ("In the Trenches", February 2007) and is a co-author of "Understanding e-Business Application Integration" (M.C. Press, 2002). Most recently, Mr. Lee has led discussion forums such as the Yahoo community forum on MDM. He received his Computer Science degree from Wheaton College, IL.
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David Llamas is the Director of Information Technology for London retail giant, Harrods. After 11years of working as a consultant and ERP project manager in retail and other industries, Mr. Llamas joined Harrods in February 2003 as Enterprise Applications Controller. In April 2005, he was promoted to the position of IT Director in charge of Technology, Applications, Business Intelligence, e-Commerce and Telecoms. Mr. Llamas is also chairman of the Retail Technology Summit conference series. Mr. Llamas earned his Executive MBA at the London Business School in 2005. Harrods has been London's premier retail outlet for over 155 years.
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Philip
Malan joined iamdentity in 2006, bringing with him a wealth of
experience from his 10 year IT career where he held positions in product
development, product strategy and consulting. Mr. Malan’s experience
includes large scale projects such as the South African census and British
Local Council GIS driven data-quality programs. Since moving to the
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Stephen
Martin |
Stephen
Martin is Enterprise Information Architect responsible for Business
Intelligence & Data within one of the larger divisions of BT’s One
IT group. Also serving as Chief Platform Architect for all of BT’s Business
Intelligence systems, Mr. Martin is responsible for all of BT’s internal
data estate, both in the
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Sæmundur Melstað has been CIO at Húsasmidjan since his appointment in 2000. Previously as IT Director with Húsasmidjan, Mr. Melstað was responsible for all IT development and operations. During his 15 years at Húsasmidjan, Mr. Melstað has designed and implemented a range of MDM solutions including master employee, master customer, and master product projects. As one of Iceland’s leading CIOs, he frequently speaks to professional and university audiences on the practical application of IT in the enterprise. Mr. Melstað holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.
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Jeanette Møller holds a Masters Degree in Management Accounting. Ms. Møller has been working with Information Management for the last 6 years. She joined Nordea in 1997 starting out working in the Finance Department and has since then had a number of different positions from Finance IT Manager to Head of Finance Systems, Development & Master Data to Program Manager for the Nordea Information Management Program. Currently Ms. Møller is Nordea’s senior Master Data Program Manager and carries the responsibility for all Nordea’s Master Data initiatives.
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Martin “Marty” Moseley plays an integral role in Initiate Systems’ strategic technology direction, development and future product evolution, and is a key evangelist / thought leader on customer data integration and master data strategies. Mr. Moseley joined Initiate from Intuit where, as chief architect, he implemented Initiate Identity Hub™ software to provide a single view of all Intuit customer information and transactions. Mr. Moseley is a 23 year IT industry veteran with extensive systems architecture experience. He has held senior level positions as co-founder and CTO at several start-up companies where he was responsible for defining technology design, vision and direction. He also worked for a number of years as a senior information systems architecture consultant where he gained valuable insight into the data integration and management markets and designed and built more than 20 different data warehousing systems. Earlier in his career, Mr. Moseley spent three years at Apple Computer, where he was responsible for managing enterprise architecture and participated in the VITAL Architecture development, and four years at Booz Allen Hamilton in the defense sector practice. Mr. Moseley has engineered IT architectures for giants like Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, GE Capital, IBM, Nestlé Foods, Sun Microsystems, Stanford University and Syntex/Roche.
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Ajay
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Ajay Nayar is a Senior Manager in the Financial Services, Information Management practice of BearingPoint. With over 18 years of experience in the IT services industry he has contributed in various leadership roles for large scale information management and systems integration initiatives. In his current capacity, he is primarily responsible for helping define solution strategies and manage the execution of enterprise wide Customer Information Management initiatives. Prior to joining BearingPoint, he was the Vice President Solutions and Services for a Payment Solution and Customer Account Management systems provider for retail banks.
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Ron Nicholls has worked for BT for 20 years, almost half of which has been in the area of data quality. BT has been practising MDM internally in particular, albeit in several guises, for many years. Most recently, Mr. Nicholls has had specific responsibility for customer name and address management across the organisation with responsibility for delivering the building block for central BT-wide address management. He has also worked in many closely related areas including CRM, High Street sales integration, major data migration projects and regulated product provisioning. Specifically, Back in 2000, Mr. Nicholls deployed the first internal Trillium process for cleansing, standardising and matching BT and non-BT names/addresses for a Marketing application. As a follow on, he helped he was instrumental in implementing a centralised address management capability, hooking into legacy applications to provide data to, and receive from, BT’s front office Siebel platforms to enhance and protect BT’s CRM investments. Mr. Nicholls now works in BT’s external consulting team (oneIT), helping to bring benefits to other organisations with this methodology. This external focus provides a wider experience of how other organisations tackle similar MDM-related data quality issues. Mr. Nicholls received his Production Engineering degree from the University of Aston in Birmingham.
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Petri Painokallio is the Business Intelligence Development Manager of Elisa Corporation. Elisa is the leading telco in Finland. Mr. Painokallio joined Elisa in 2001 and is now responsible for leading Business Intelligence development program and managing maintenance of existing solutions. Previously, he was also project manager and employed by energy company Fortum. Mr. Painokallio has over 10 years of hands-on experience about datawarehousing and Business Intelligence.
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An-Chan Phung is a leading industry CDI/MDM Architect and VisionWare’s Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for the strategic development of the MultiVue Product Roadmap, ensuring it supports evolving market conditions and demands, whilst researching emerging and innovative technologies. An-Chan has worked with VisionWare since 2001, starting as a Technical Consultant and quickly working his way up to Technical Product Manager, and then on to his current position where he provides influential support for customers, helping to define their MDM/CDI strategy. He studied at Napier University in Edinburgh, where he gained a BEng in Software Engineering and a BEng in Engineering with Management. An-Chan is also a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer.
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Thomas Ravn is Platon’s lead consultant on MDM and the head of Platon’s MDM consulting department. He is also a significant contributor to Platon’s Information Management methodology, Platon Insight®. Mr. Ravn has extensive experience in solving MDM challenges and has been the Project Manager and advisor on several MDM projects with large International clients such as Grundfos, Arla Foods, and Uponor. He is an experienced presenter with appearances at IBM’s Information Integration Live conference in Las Vegas, Platon’s Data Quality Conference in Copenhagen, and at Deloitte’s MDM Value Day in Düsseldorf. Additionally, Mr. Ravn regularly teaches on Platon’s open courses on MDM. Mr. Ravn received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and his M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration from Aalborg University.
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Ian Sayers has over twenty years of experience in IT covering both line roles as well as consulting. His current role covers the application architecture for both the UK Retail and Corporate Banks as well as Barclaycard, Barclays International operations and core Group functions. Current work includes leading a cross functional team to define Barclays Global Customer Data Architecture. Prior to working for Barclays Mr Sayers worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers as a Director managing a group of their leading Systems Integration architects, as well as holding consulting roles with Andersen Consulting and Unisys. With these firms Mr. Sayers worked on a number of global integration projects covering Government, Pharmaceutical and Financial Services verticals..
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Hagen
Schaumkell |
Hagen
Schaumkell has worked for more than 15 years at WestLB. After
various posts in Global Back Office and Risk Management, he started in
2001 to build up the bank's global anti-money laundering solutions as
head of research and monitoring. Mr. Schaumkell was a member of various
workgroups including the expert group advising the EU commission on the
EU sanction list in 2004, and also represented
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Bob
Seiner |
Robert S. Seiner is the President and Principal of KIK Consulting & Educational Services, LLC, a consultancy focused on designing and implementing best practices in the areas of Data Governance and Data Stewardship, Meta-Data Management, Data Management Programs and Data Architecture. KIK, standing for “knowledge is king”, provides consulting and mentoring services as well as private and public seminars in these data management disciplines. Mr. Seiner is also the Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). Over the years, TDAN.com has won several prestigious awards and has become recognized as a “Go-To” place for data managers. TDAN.com is preparing to celebrate its 10th Anniversary in July of 2007 and presently attracts 200,000 visitors every quarter.
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Altug
Seven |
As Customer & Channels Head for Turkcell, Altug Seven serves as the Business Lead for UCMA Programme Management. The goal of the UCMA (Unified Customer Management Architecture) Programme is to consolidate and renovate the IT infrastructure and BSS applications from the customer data and transactions perspective. Previously, Mr. Seven worked as the Technical Lead in UCMA Programme Management where he led the team for selection of the CRM/CDI product suite. During 2005-2006, he was also responsible for Turkcell’s customer database and surrounding systems technical design. Other major CDI-MDM experience in Mr. Seven’s 10 years at Turkcell includes Call Center and Reporting Applications Development, Customer Database Development Campaign Management Project, and Fulfillment Engine (Order Fulfillment). He received his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute in 2001. After graduating from Robert College in 1990, Mr. Seven received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1994. He received his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Bosphorus University in 1997.
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Dileep
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Dileep Srinivasan is the Practice Leader for CDI & Customer Analytics at Cognizant Technology Solutions. With over 25 years of experience in the consulting practice, Mr. Srinivasan has contributed extensively to organizations, helping them derive strategic benefits and greater return on investment from their IT investments. He has been a key speaker at many global conferences covering wide varieties of topics such as strategic outsourcing, change management, call center management and managed operations. In his current role, he is involved in building industry specific CDI-MDM solutions, establishing data governance principles and establishing key partnerships to enable better value addition. Mr. Srinivasan has also provided key solutions to clients in the data governance and stewardship areas.
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Gary Thomson is senior vice president and chief information officer for Choice Hotels International (NYSE:CHH), the second largest hotel franchise company in the world. He is also an executive officer of the company. Thomson is based at the company’s Phoenix, Arizona regional headquarters, where he is responsible for all aspects of Choice’s information systems including design, development, operations, infrastructure and support.
Previously, Thomson served as vice president, information systems technologies for Choice where he led the transformation of various systems and the development of Choice's Internet and web technology. He played an integral role in the creation and rollout of successful technologies to support Choice’s central reservation system, hotel property management systems, web sites, and Choice Privileges frequent guest program. Prior to joining Choice, Thomson spent 11 years with AT&T Bell Laboratories in various technical and management positions. Thomson began his career as a design engineer with Stromberg-Carlson, a telephone systems manufacturer, after graduating from the University of Memphis with a degree in electrical engineering.
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Thykjær |
Thomas
Thykjær is the project manager of Grundfos’ MDM Project
where he leads the global implementation of an MDM strategy and data quality
KPI concept. Previously, Mr. Thykjær worked for seven years on MDM
and SAP Implementations at York International. His experience covers
projects in Europe,
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Ruud
Verdaasdonk |
Ruud Verdaasdonk has worked for a number of years in consulting with focus on Management Reporting, Knowledge Management, Data Migration and lately MDM. He has been engaged with Heineken group IT and is involved in the MDM Programme of Heineken. This initiative will enable MDM across the Heineken operating companies across the world. Mr. Verdaasdonk holds an MSc degree.
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Anurag
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Anurag Wadehra is Vice President, Marketing and Product Management at Siperian and is a published author, recognized speaker and CDI/MDM educator. With more than 18 years of business experience, Anurag directs all product management and marketing activities including product requirements for existing and new products, product marketing, market entry strategy, sales & partner marketing, branding and public relations at Siperian. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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Holger Wandt has worked for Human Inference since 1991. As a linguist, Mr.. Wandt has spent many years improving the natural language processing methods within the company's product suite. In his current role as principal advisor, he is responsible for all knowledge related data quality issues. In addition, as the expert he has final responsibility for all aspects related to national and international name and address standardization. Mr. Wandt was chairman of the of the “address databases” working group of the European Union standardization institute (CEN) and liaison manager for the Universal Postal Union (UPU). In addition to being an experienced speaker at national and international events on data and information quality, he is lecturer at the Universities of Nyenrode and Nymegen. Mr. Wandt has published many white papers and articles, including recent publications in CEO Today and the Journal of the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ).
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Jonathan Wu is a senior principal with Knightsbridge Solutions, a leading BI authority focused exclusively on solving massive and complex data problems for Global 2000 companies. At Knightsbridge, Mr. Wu first CDI engagement was in 1994 for Barclays Global Investors, followed by Sun Microsystems. Since then, he has been involved in numerous CDI engagements for large organizations across a variety of industries. He is also responsible for development of the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Certificate Program at the University of California, Berkeley Extension where he also lectures. Mr. Wu is a columnist for DM Review magazine and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.
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Aaron
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Aaron Zornes is the founder and chief research officer of the CDI-MDM Institute. Mr. Zornes is a noted speaker and author on Global 2000 enterprise IT issues and is the most quoted industry analyst on the topics of customer data integration’ (CDI), master data management (MDM), and data governance. Mr. Zornes is also the editor and lead contributor to DM Review’s CDI Newsletter as well as the monthly columnist for both CDI and MDM. Prior to founding the CDI-MDM Institute, he was founder and executive VP of META Group’s largest research advisory practice for 15 years. Mr. Zornes also held line and strategic management roles in leading vendor and user organizations, including executive and managerial positions at Ingres Corp., Wang, Software AG of North America, and Cincom Systems. Mr. Zornes received his M.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.
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