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Paul Fulton
VP Data Governance
Visa Europe
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Paul Fulton is VP of Data Governance at Visa Europe. He is responsible for setting and agreeing data policies and processes and day to day running of Visa Europe's data governance function. This covers data quality management, security, compliance, definitions and master data management in a BI context. He is responsible for ensuring trusted data in a warehouse containing over 20 billion records. Paul has worked in BI and data management for over 10 years, with a range of high data volume businesses in a consultant and end user capacity. He started work with Accenture within their customer data management practice assisting retail and telecomunication clients in BI and CRM transformation programmes before moving to Yell Group as their Enterprise BI and Data Architect. Paul holds a masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University.
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Rob Karel
Principal Analyst
Forrester Research
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Rob Karel 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 and acquisitions product group at Thomson Financial Securities Data (now Thomson Financial Investment Banking).
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Anwar Mirza
Financial Systems and Data Governance Director
TNT Express
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Anwar Mirza's background in management accounting, credit management systems development has allowed him to observe data integrity from various perspectives. He has held various management positions within TNT Express' global head office based in the Netherlands. Responsibilities have included Corporate Financial Systems (Accounting consolidation), Divisional Administration Director (Credit Management) and Back-Office Project Director (Accounting, HR Purchasing). His drive to continually improve business data quality, integrity and timeliness challenges business process owners and software developers alike to enable Data Governance within TNT. Anwar now also leads the Data Governance initiatives along with his other responsibilities.
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Robert
S. Seiner
President & Principal
KIK Consulting & Educational Services, Publisher - The Data Administration Newsletter
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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.
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Gwen Thomas
President
The Data Governance Instituter
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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.
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Peter Thomas
Head of Group IT Development
Element Six
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Peter Thomas has led all-pervasive, Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation projects serving the needs of 500 users in multiple business units and service departments across 13 European and 5 Latin American countries. He has also developed Business Intelligence strategies for operations spanning four continents. His BI work has won two industry awards including "Best Enterprise BI Implementation", from Cognos in 2006 and "Best use of IT in Insurance", from Financial Sector Technology in 2005. Peter speaks about success factors in both Business Intelligence and the associated Change Management at seminars across both Europe and North America and writes about these areas and many other aspects of business, technology and change on his blog http://www.peterjamesthomas.com.
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