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Masliah M. Ali is the Head of Data Governance in Maybank, one of the largest Banks in Malaysia. As a Head of Data Governance, she oversees all source systems of the Bank on Data principles and policies, manages the Data Quality Management Program, is involved in major projects of the Bank e.g. Basel2, Enterprise Data Gaps, B.I and Metadata, Group Collateral Management System, Core Banking Replacement, MIS projects and sits in various Project Steering Committees. She has more than 25 years of banking experience. She began her career in various positions and Branches in the operations frontline, and was a Trainer at Maybank Academy specializing in Banking Operations and Trade Finance. She was instrumental in setting-up the pioneer Support Centre of the Bank before proceeding to become the first Head of Group Customer Information where she spearheaded all integration projects across Maybank and Maybank subsidiaries to achieve a 360 degree single version of truth for customers, online realtime across the Maybank Group. Session: |
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Jon Asprey has over 12 years experience in information management and data analysis, where he has worked for both global consultancies and software vendors with many international clients. Initially working within direct marketing operations, assisting clients to build a single customer view and optimise customer analytics, Jon developed a detailed understanding of managing disparate data systems. Most recently, Jon has focused on data quality management and has advised clients to plan their data quality strategy and build business case justifications for data management initiatives such as Data Governance and MDM. Jon has held senior consulting positions at both HP Consulting and Deloitte.. Session: |
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Charles Blyth is an accomplished business leader, equipped with a commanding track record in driving real and measurable improvements to performance. He Draws on over 12 years experience in Business Intelligence and Master Data Management, allied to a clear understanding of real-world objectives and effective dialogue with key people. He possesses key experience in assembling and inspiring large teams including managing consultants and deciding their input. He is confident and effective, orchestrating projects with budgets of £2.5m+, and expert in building the business case for investment and strategic change. He is equally successful launching new initiatives or turning around troubled projects, achieving swift, high-level results which leave lasting benefits. Charles specializes in MDM and Business Intelligence strategy definition and program delivery. Session: |
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Iain Bourne joined the information Commissioner's office in 1996. During his time with the Commissioner he has dealt with a wide range of areas, including health service compliance, new technologies, international issues and privacy at work. Iain worked for a couple of years on the freedom of information side of the Commissioner's office, before moving back to data protection in 2006 to deal with information-sharing policy. He was appointed Head of Data Protection Projects in April 2007. Session: |
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Dr. Malcolm Chisholm is an internationally recognized thought leader in the fields of Metadata and Master Data Management. Malcolm is the author of the book Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases. In his consulting practice he concentrates on practical solutions for governance and MDM issues, and brings this perspective to his speaking engagements and publications. He runs the websites www.masterdatamgmt.com and www.refdataportal.com. Session: |
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Jim Cushman serves the dual role of senior vice president, products & services, and general manager, enterprise & government lines of business. In these roles, Jim is responsible for leading the direction of Initiate's product development and developing the strategies that drive growth in the enterprise and government sectors. During his 7 years with Initiate, an IBM Company, Jim has held numerous executive positions in presales, architecture, delivery, and support and has been directly involved in the sale and delivery of over 75 high tech, communications, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, public sector, and homeland defense MDM/CDI solution design, development, and implementations on four continents. Jim is the author of two patents related to Initiate's B2B and hierarchy technology. Prior to Initiate, Jim held various executive, management, and individual contributor roles with numerous technology, management consultancy, and engineering organizations such as Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), 3Genesis, and TenFold Corporation. Session: |
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Dr. Walid is a visionary and thought leader in the Data Excellence and Business Excellence practices for global organisations. He is a worldwide recognised expert in the domains of Data Governance, Data quality, Data conversion, Meta data and master data management. Over the past 8 years, Walid has led strategies and implementations of frameworks and methodologies to achieve Data Quality and Data Governance Excellence in Global Enterprises. Dr. Walid is the author of an innovative Global Data Excellence Framework based on his PhD studies including a roadmap, a global execution strategy and implementation plan. He is a recognised international speaker and delivers training, seminars and conferences on Data Excellence from vision to value generation. Dr. Walid has more than 13 years of service oriented experience in managing projects, teams, and initiatives related to business data excellence. He started his career in the data domain in 1995 and rapidly progressed to large integrated global programs and missions in a variety of enterprises such as Nestlé, MSCI, IATA, Airbus, EDF, France Telecom Mobile, Manzoni-Bouchot (Automotive industry), INPI, CTP, NOVELL, MC2 and Steria. Today, Dr. Walid is the CEO of the "Global Data Excellence" company he founded to focus on a Data Excellence agenda for the C level executives. Session: |
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Dave Evans is one of the founders
of the Data Management Association (DAMA), UK Chapter and
is now its chairperson, a role he held since 2004. Dave has
worked for BT in the
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Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an analyst and consultant, with over 27 years of IT experience, he specialises in business intelligence and enterprise business integration. Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on business intelligence, data governance, enterprise architecture, business integration and SOA . He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the Business Intelligence Network, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited (the inventors of the Relational Model), a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates. He teaches popular Enterprise 2.0 master classes in Operational Business Intelligence and Performance Management, Data Governance, Master Data Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Portals. Session: |
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Graeme Fullerton is the head of Enterprise Architecture, responsible for system design principles and managing application portfolio within the group. Graeme joined Electrocomponents in 2005 and managed the implementation of a single European ERP system followed by the replacement of legacy web technology and the introduction of centralized master data management capability. Prior to joining Electrocomponents Graeme had worked for over 15 years implementing ERP. Session: |
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Bridgette Griffiths is a Project Delivery Manager in Information Management at BT Design , the software engineering arm of BT. She has over 20 years experience in the industry, the last 15 in Information Management. She has been involved in many of BT's major BI initiatives during that period.. Having worked on many of the activities to move BT towards being a real-time enterprise throughout its key end to end processes she is now focussed on BT's drive into the external, ICT market. Session:
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Andy Hayler is one of the world's foremost experts on master data management. Andy started his career with Esso and then Shell. He was Technology Planning Manager of Shell UK, Principal Technology Consultant for Shell international and set up a global information management consultancy business which grew to 300 staff. Andy was architect of a global master data and data warehouse project for Shell downstream which attained USD 140M of annual business benefits. He then founded Kalido, which under his leadership was the fastest growing business intelligence vendor in the world in 2001. Andy was the only European named in Red Herring's "Top 10 Innovators of 2002". Andy is now founder and CEO of The Information Difference, a boutique analyst and market research firm, advising corporations, venture capital firms and software companies. He is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences on master data management. Session:
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Jan Henderyckx is a highly rated independent consultant, speaker and author with more than 20 years experience in the field of information architecture and relational databases. He has presented, moderated and taught workshops at many international conferences and user-groups meetings worldwide. As a consultant for numerous corporations, ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses, Jan has witnessed the inner workings of a broad range of companies. Session: |
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Dylan Jones is the founder and editor of the online community resource, Data Quality Pro. He has over 16 years experience operating in complex data quality, data migration and business intelligence projects across the automotive, retail, financial and telecommunications sectors. In recent years he has focused his efforts on creating social media platforms that serve to educate and connect data quality professionals across the globe. Session: |
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Rob Karel is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. He is a leading expert in how companies manage data and integrate information across the enterprise. His current research focus includes master data management, data quality management, metadata management, data governance, and data integration technologies, including ETL and EII. Rob has more than 14 years of data management experience working in both business and IT roles to develop solutions that provide better quality, confidence in, and usability of critical enterprise data. Prior to joining Forrester, he managed Intuit's enterprise data quality initiatives and supported the implementation of Intuit's customer master reference system. Prior to Intuit, Rob managed the design and development of customer master and attribute management solutions for Cisco Systems. Earlier, Rob was research manager for the Global Mergers & Acquisitions product group at Thomson Financial Securities Data (now Thomson Financial Investment Banking). Rob holds a B.S. in finance from Ithaca College. Session: |
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Tom Kennedy is Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of BackOffice Associates, LLC and Founder of CranSoft. Mr. Kennedy has been designing and building technology since 1978. Mr. Kennedy has developed groundbreaking 4th Generation Languages throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including full suites of fully integrated financial and accounting applications built using his 4th generation languages, to emerging technologies of engines that directly render web pages including fully integrated web-based applications for Fortune 100 Companies using this engine. Mr. Kennedy was formerly CEO of Kennedy & Associates in Richmond, Virginia, sold in 1992. Kennedy & Associates provided 4GLs and integrated accounting and custom developed applications for Johnson & Johnson, UPS, Otis Elevator, Citrus World and many other global corporations. Mr. Kennedy co-founded BackOffice Associates in 1994 and focused BackOffice Associates on the SAP data quality market in 1997. His vision and design have led to industry leading tools and methodologies that provide a high value proposition and have enabled BackOffice Associates to fully exploit one of the highest growth markets in the technology arena. Mr. Kennedy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of South Florida. Session: |
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Theo Kester (MSc, MBA) has started working at ABN AMRO in 1980 as a market researcher. From there he was engaged in different roles like Business Analyst, Project leader, etc. At the end of the eighties he joined the head office department of Dutch Corporates, where he was active in marketing, communication, policies, information services and IT. From 1996 he had several senior management positions in Marketing and in the former Global Transaction Services Netherlands department In 2003 he became a Program manager at the Services (TOPS) department, where he developed a large part of the sales applications within Customer Relationship Management PeopleSoft. Since the beginning of 2008 he is working at 'Finance Netherlands' as Data Quality Manager. His motto is "data quality is all about money and hygiene". Session: |
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Joe Lichtenberg is an executive level enterprise software consultant with strong strategy, execution, and business development experience. Joe has held CMO positions with numerous enterprise software companies, and his experience includes companies ranging from startups to large public companies, including an 11 year tenure with Parametric Technology Corporation (symbol: PMTC), during which time revenues grew from $5M to over $1B, and the company executed a successful IPO. Joe's recent engagements include helping companies with strategic analysis to drive company positioning, product positioning and identification of target markets, and subsequent development, execution, and leadership of all messaging, product marketing activities and marketing programs to penetrate these markets. Joe is well regarded for his hands-on, "in the trenches" style, working closely with sales organizations, customers, and prospects, Session: |
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Cliff Longman is an independent consultant specialising in data modelling and data management. He spent 10 years with Oracle in the UK where he designed Oracle systems, ran the UK training business and was chief architect for the Oracle CASE tools. As an independent consultant he has advised on the design and implementation of database and data management systems in manufacturing, oil and gas, finance and electronics industries. In the 10 years to 2008, as Chief Technology Officer at Kalido, Cliff was responsible for product and technology strategy for the software company's data warehousing and master data management portfolio. Sessions: |
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Dr. Madassar Manzoo specialises in the design, development and effective use of data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI). He has over 20 years experience in this role during which time he has worked on over 50 major assignments around the world with organisation such as Abbey, Arcadia, HBOS, John Lewis and Zurich in the UK; Bank of America and Prudential in the USA; Allstate and Douglas Parfumeries in Germany; and Banco Santander in Spain. Dr Manzoor works across the entire lifecycle of DW and BI projects from gathering business requirements and building business cases through architecting solutions, auditing source systems and designing data models all the way through to designing data feeds, cleaning and integrating data from disparate sources, designing reporting applications and assisting business users to maximise the value they derive from their new systems. Through this work Dr Manzoor has developed a very detailed and practical understanding of the major technologies, tools, techniques, skills and processes that are needed to successfully extract, analyse, cleanse, integrate and exploit data for competitive advantage. Session: |
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Danette McGilvray is President and Principal of Granite Falls Consulting, Inc., a firm specializing in information quality management and data governance and stewardship. Projects include establishing data quality and governance programs, data warehousing strategies, and large-scale ERP data migrations for Fortune 500 organizations. She is the author of Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™, (Morgan Kaufmann, 2008). A skilled program and project manager and facilitator, she has worked with people in all levels of the organization and from all functional areas, giving her a perspective of information management challenges based on real-life experience. Danette consults with clients and is invited to be a speaker in the US and Europe. She has contributed articles to various industry journals and newsletters and has been profiled in PC Week and HP Measure Magazine. She was an invited delegate to the People's Republic of China to discuss roles and opportunities for women in the computer field. Sessions: |
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Faizah Mustafa is the Head Data Planning/Analyst in Maybank, attached to Data Governance of Maybank, the largest bank in Malaysia. Before joining Data Governance, she was attached to Information Technology Division (IT) for 19 years, heading various applications in Core Banking Department. She has been involved in major IT projects such as enhancement in Customer and Account applications, Core Banking Replacement, various source systems integrations within the Maybank group of companies to Group Customer Information, system conversions and data migration exercises. Session: |
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Brigadier Richard Nugee was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1986. He completed four tours of Northern Ireland in the infantry role, before joining the Directorate of Manning (Army) responsible for Army Officer Policy in 1995. Since then he has served in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq, and with the UN in Cyprus. In 2008 he took over as Chief Joint Fires and Influence at HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, initially in Afghanistan and latterly in Germany. He became Director of Manning (Army) in HQ Land Forces in March 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, has an MA in Military Affairs and is a Graduate of the City and Guilds Institute. Session: |
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João de Oliveira has been working within IT industry for more than 20 years, namely in the applications business for over 16 years and is responsible for Master Data Management business development across the EMEA region for 4 years. João started working for Oracle in November 2001, and has had in his career responsibilities in supporting sales and pre-sales and business development across EMEA for ERP, SCM, CRM, Applications Technology, and Application Integration Architecture. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked six years at Fujitsu Services being responsible for the Oracle Practice at Portugal specially focused in Oracle Applications - ERP, CRM and SCM - and Application Integration Projects using Oracle technologies. In addition João has worked at a number of local and multinational IT companies as senior business consultant responsible for the Oracle business. João has a large experience in application software development, application implementation, application integration, project and risk management as well in pre-sales and business development, all across several industries such as, Public Sector, Financial Services, Telecom's, Manufacturing and Retail. João has a degree in Mathematics of the Lisbon University, Portugal. Session:
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Laurence Orazi is Global Data Governance manager at Alcatel-lucent. Ten years of experience in corporate business transformation programs in sales marketing area (CRM, SFA, MDM, BI ) Specialties: Data Governance, Customer Relationship Management Change management strategy and implementation, Customer master data management, Business data architecture, Business process and metrics definition. Session: |
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Pablo Riboldi has been an Instructional Designer, Developer, Business Analyst, and more recently the Information Governance Manager for the LDS Church. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Utah, teaching Instructional Design and Learning Theories. He also enjoys teaching community classes for home schoolers and adults on Euclidean Geometrys. Session: |
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Chris Saunders runs a Data Stewardship practice within Detica, consisting of over 100 professional consultants out of a total of more than 1600. He has written numerous white papers on the subject of data governance and ownership, and has been widely quoted in press comment. He has run joint case study sessions with clients at Data Governance Europe in both 2008 and 2009. Chris has a First Class Honours degree ijn Operational Research and Management Studies from Cambridge University and an MSc in Management Science from Imperial College, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a member of the Operational Research Society, and an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries. Session: |
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Robert (Bob) S. Seiner is the President and Principal of KIK Consulting & Educational Services and the Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). In 2007, TDAN.com celebrated its 10th anniversary and attracts close to 150K visitors every month. In 2007, KIK Consulting celebrated its 5th anniversary and focuses on knowledge transfer and consultative mentoring. Bob was recently awarded the 2007 DAMA Professional Award for significant and demonstrable contributions to the data management industry and chaired the 2007 Wilshire Award for Meta-Data Best Practices. Bob specializes in non-invasive data governance, data stewardship, and meta-data management solutions and has successfully assisted and mentored many notable organizations. Session: |
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Gwen Thomas is President of The Data Governance Institute, which provides publications, training, and consulting in Data Governance, Stewardship, and Compliance. Gwen also serves as publisher of www.DataGovernance.com, the web's largest collection of Data Governance information and humor, as well as publisher of www.SOX-online.com, the Vendor-Neutral Sarbanes-Oxley site. Gwen has designed Data Governance programmes for Sallie Mae, Wachovia Banks, Walt Disney World, Coors, NDCHealth/Wolters Kluwer, and others, working with IBM, systems integrator CIBER, and other partners. A frequent presenter at industry data events, Gwen is a columnist for z/Journal, on the presentation faculty for Institutional Investor, and is the author of Alpha Males and Data Disasters: The Case for Data Governance. Session: |
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Nigel Turner is Head of ICT
Customer Management within BT Exact IT, BT's main software
house. He leads a team of 130 consultants & technical
experts in CRM, Billing and Data & Information Management,
including specialists in data warehousing, data migration,
data quality, data mining, data visualisation, Siebel, Interactive
Voice Response & Computer Telephony Integration. Nigel
has worked in BT for 25 years, mostly in a variety of IT roles
including project & programme management. He also spent
five years in BT's Group Strategy unit, where he led business
information management and corporate data quality initiatives.
Outside BT he is a part time Associate Lecturer with the UK
Open University where he teaches Systems & the Management
of Change. Nigel has published several papers on information
management and data quality, and is a regular speaker in IM
conferences. Before joining BT, he worked as an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Political Science in the University
of British Columbia, Vancouver,
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Thibaut De Vylder is the CEO of Deployments Factory a consulting company that has successfully supported the implementation of Data Quality continuous improvements processes in complex environments (Basel 2, accounting systems, rating systems,...) within major banking actors like ABN Amro, Fortis Belgium. Thibaut De Vylder, MBA Mc Gill Montreal Canada and Commercial Engineer from Louvain School of Economics (UCL, Belgium), started his career as Project Manager at DMR Consulting where he joined the team of a Project director called JP Letourneur. Together, they launched Deployments Factory in 2000. Deployments Factory immediately organised the merger of branches and corporate entities of two major banks in Belgium a 350 millions € program. Session: |
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Gordon Wanless is the Head of Information Governance for the NHS Business Services Authority. He is responsible for his Authority's compliance with all relevant privacy and access legislation. Gordon was until recently the chair of the Data Protection Forum and also chaired the BSi panel which developed the British Standard (BS10012) Data protection - Specification for a personal information management system. Session: |
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Kjell Wittmaack is an industry expert within the field of Information Management advising companies around the world on strategic Information Management issues. He is the lead architect on Platon's unique Information Management methodology (Platon Insight®) covering every aspect of enterprise-wide Information Management. He carries the responsibility for knowledge capturing, sharing and leveraging among Platon's more than 200 employees. Mr. Wittmaack received his Master of Science degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from Copenhagen Business School. Session: |
