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Burak
Akusta PMP, REP
Project Manager
IBTECH/Finansbank
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Burak Akusta has been working
within several IT disciplines for the past eleven years; examples
of which are, software development specialist, technical project
manager for distributed software systems, project manager
for banking IT projects. IBTECH, founded in 2005, is the IT
R&D subsidiary of Finansbank. IBTECH is a leading technology
company in Turkey providing software applications and infrastructure
services on core banking systems, data mining, CRM and banking
delivery channels. Also, IBTECH leads the IT vision of Finansbank
and its subsidiaries according to technological improvements.
In addition to Finansbank’s IT projects, IBTECH provides
consultancy and support to some of the NBG Group Members in
Europe. Mr. Akusta has joined Turkiye Is Bankasi in 1999 and
has held several positions starting from software development
specialist to technical project manager. Since August 2007,
he has been working for IBTECH, which is the IT subsidiary
of Finansbank, as a Project Manager. Currently, he is managing
the portfolio of the projects including Cards Payment Systems
Project in Banca Romaneasca-Romania, AML Implementation Project
in Finansbank, several IT projects for Human Resources, Procurement,
and Retail Banking Departments in Finansbank. Mr. Burak Akusta
has Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree from METU
and holds PMP Certification and Sun Certified Java Programmer
Certificate.
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Ahmed
Al-Sanad
CRM Projects Director
Saudi Telecom Company
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Ahmed Al-Sanad has a broad
industry background that has enabled him to successfully deliver
complex IT projects – covering technical, business and
management aspects with equal ease in aerospace industry,
water desalination industry and telecommunications industry.
In his current role as CRM Director with Saudi Telecom Company
(STC), a multi-billion dollar company, Mr. Al-Sanad has successfully
delivered a CRM solution for Saudi Data – on time, on
budget and to specifications – and is now overseeing
the strategically important Oracle Universal Customer Master
(UCM) project that encompasses all business units of STC –
including Al Hatif (landline services, card and public phones),
Al Jawal (mobile and messaging services), Saudi Net (ISP),
and Saudi Data (data solutions). An important part of his
responsibilities is to ensure a common approach among all
the business units, while respecting their individual business
requirements, and subsequently transforming this to a set
of coherent UCM functionalities. Mr. Al-Sanad furthermore
has overall responsibility for defining the strategies behind
both the UCM and a customer-centric focus, and providing the
link between business users and technical personnel. He is
also a university instructor and a speaker at international
conferences.
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Pascal
Amaridon
Global Data Management Manager
Michelin Group
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Pascal Amaridon’s responsibilities
include building a global data management strategy within
Michelin. Mr. Amaridon demonstrated the business case and
methodology to manage data assets within a global, complex
landscape and accordingly put together a delivery organization
to reuse existing assets to maximize business and IT gains.
Currently, he heads the IS data management domain dealing
with data governance, enterprise data definition and modelling,
master data management solutions and data quality. With a
central team of data architects, Mr. Amaridon works closely
with the business data owners, data stewards, data experts
and IT teams – across methods and tools, application
delivery and integration, and BI – to transform data
expectations into concrete deliverables bridging silos of
geographic zones, product lines, and business processes.
Prior to his current role within Michelin, he was both project
manager and solution manager for marketing & sales projects
dealing with Siebel B2B solutions, market shares and BI solutions.
Additionally, he was Michelin’s expertise BI solution
consultant within the worldwide data warehouse and BI program.
In parallel as leader of the global data management domain,
Mr. Amaridon currently acts as a Global Enterprise Data architect
to ensure IT projects alignments with enterprise data expectations.
Prior to Michelin, he was engaged by key European enterprises
for large scale projects in manufacturing, sales management
and marketing intelligence. Mr. Amaridon is a qualified engineer
from the Institute of Applied Computer Science and Modelling
(ISIMA) at Blaise Pascal University.
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Tom
Austin
Corporate Data Manager, Ares Trading Division
Merck Serono
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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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Steve
Barker
European Sales Director
BackOffice Associates |
Steve Barker, European Sales
Director at BackOffice Associates: brings with him more than
20 years Information Technology experience from different
market sectors including Manufacturing, Supply Chain &
Retail Sectors and has been heavily involved in the SAP ERP
arena for over 11 years. Mr. Barker has also held senior management
positions at a number of leading SAP Integration partners
with responsibility for UK and International Sales and Operations
across EMEA.
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Gareth
J Bath
Flt Lt
Ministry of Defence
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Gareth Bath, an Engineer in
the Royal Air Force, is the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
Data Authority for the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Joint
Support Chain (JSC). His responsibilities include: developing
a coherent Support Chain (SC) EDW data set which provides
effective support to military operations; supporting the development
of a coherent JSC data model, a key foundation stone for the
JSC’s Future Logistic Information Services (FLIS) programme;
providing or sourcing MOD advice for the SC EDW and Business
Intelligence Competency Centre (BICC) teams and external contractors
on military logistic processes and applications; and identifying
data sources to meet developing BICC reporting requirements.
The developing data management strategy for the EDW in the
realms of Master Data and Metadata management are key to the
success of the SC EDW in providing a single view of the joint
MOD/Industry logistics business. Gareth is currently working
closely with the JSC Data Quality Management and FLIS programme
teams to develop a standards-based methodology to consistently
document the JSC’s many transactional database systems,
some of which are more than 30 years old, and identify where
common master data requirements exist.
Gareth’s previous role was leading a team administering
Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) services for the
Royal Air Force’s Headquarters Air Command, during which
his team supported the merger of Headquarters Personnel and
Training Command and Strike Command at Royal Air Force High
Wycombe to form a new single headquarters organisation. He
has also lead teams in support of front-line Tornado aircraft
operations at Royal Air Force Leuchars and aircraft ground
support equipment for the Hercules transport fleet while implementing
‘Lean’ support processes at Royal Air Force Lyneham.
Gareth has a Bachelors Degree in Aeronautical Engineering
from the University of Bristol and a Masters Degree in Software
Techniques for Computer Aided Engineering from Cranfield University.
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Royce
Bell
Chief Executive Officer
Accenture Information Management Services
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During Royce Bell’s more
than 23 years experience in management consulting, technology
and outsourcing services, he has worked with a range of large
multinational companies, notably Shell and BP, and several
government institutions. Mr. Bell sits on the board of the
Oxford University Business Economic Programme. He has lived
and worked for extensive periods in the Far East and France.
Mr. Bell has a Bachelors and Masters in Natural Sciences and
Law from Cambridge University. A keen theatre supporter, he
also sits on the corporate advisory group of the National
Theatre in the UK.
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Jan-Olav
Boeriis
Group Assistant Vice President - Head of Group Master
Data
ABB
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Jan-Olav Boeriis has 26 years
industrial experience in development, design, product management,
production and IT. Mr Boeriis has led several global Master
Data initiatives within ABB related to Products, Customer/Vendors,
Employees, etc. He has also designed and implemented a Master
data governance structure at ABB. Currently, he is leading
the overall Master Data programme within ABB. Mr Boeriis
has a Masters degree in Applied Physics from the Royal Institute
of Technology, Stockholm.
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Pierre
Bonnet
IS Consultant
Orchestra Networks
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Pierre Bonnet has worked for
more than 15 years as a consultant in the field of IS architecture
and IT project management. In 2000, Pierre co-founded Orchestra
Networks a software vendor developing and marketing a MDM
solution for business users. After several successful publications
of best practices in the SOA and web services field, he participated
in the launching of the Praxeme Institute a non-profit organization
and with Dominique Vauquier and Philippe Desfray co-authored
the enterprise methodology Praxeme. At the end of 2007, Pierre
launched the Sustainable IT Architecture community (S-IT-A)
that rallies companies around three key principles securing
IS overhaul in a progressive way, for more sustainable information
systems and software: SOA maturity matrix and the associated
governance, and the criteria for evaluating enterprise methods
in the context of the IS overhaul.
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Andrew
Bridges
Data Quality & Supplier Manager
Groupe Aeroplan London
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Andrew Bridges joined Loyalty
Management Group (Now Groupe Aeroplan) in November 2004 as
Data Quality & Supplier Manager. Mr. Bridges’ main
responsibilities focus on comprehensive end-to-end data management
procedures including managing and controlling the quality
of the Nectar database, operational business processes, and
supplier management – including all data processing and data
capture suppliers. He has a wealth of experience within
the data arena and has actively been working with data for
more than ten years. Prior to LMG, Mr. Bridges worked
for VNU – one of the largest business publishers in Europe.
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Jeff
Chapman
Vice President, Professional Services
Liaison Technologies |
Jeff Chapman is the Vice President
of Professional Services for Liaison Technologies Inc., a
global leader in integration and data management. He is responsible
for leading Liaison’s Professional Services organization
including driving the strategy and implementation of enterprise
IT data projects including EAI, ESB, SOA, B2B transactions,
master data management, and systems consolidation.
Jeff joined Liaison Technologies from COMSYS IT Partners (NASDAQ:
CITP) where he was the Director of Managed Solutions. Previously,
Jeff held global IT executive positions with Newell Rubbermaid
and LuK Incorporated, a worldwide leader in automotive clutches.
Jeff holds a BS in Computer Science from Capital University
and an MBA from Emory University.
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Aurelio
D'Inverno
Senior Principal
Infosys Consulting |
Aurelio D'Inverno has 20+ years
of professional experience with Information Management &
Business Intelligence projects at large corporations in Europe
and in USA – both
as an IT professional within such organizations and as consultant.
Currently, head of the Information Management practice
at Infosys Consulting, Aurelio is leading the implementation
of a global MDM solution at Syngenta. Previously, he
lead large onshore and offshore teams to implement global
solutions, held the “thought leadership” position at one of
the big four consulting firms for Business Intelligence, and
performed numerous quality reviews for large European clients.
Aurelio has extensive experience in Retail Banking, Products,
Manufacturing and telecom as well as data architectures for
large installation footprints including data warehouse federations,
operational data warehouse, MDM, CRM and Customer Lifecycle
Management programs, and data migrations.
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Marcus
Davies
Co-Founder and Principal Consultant
Integrella Ltd (on behalf of Sun Microsystems) |
Marcus Davies is a Principal
Consultant and Co-founder of Integrella Ltd; a leading provider
of data management and enterprise integration solutions in
the UK.
Over the past 9 years, Marcus has been fortunate enough to
work on many of the largest integration projects in the US,
UK and Europe. Recent large scale projects include B2B and
SOA solutions for British Telecom, Standard Bank, Dupont Science
& Chemicals and the NHS.
Marcus has a comprehensive understanding of applying enterprise
data solutions to meet business requirements. He would like
to share his experience of delivering successful Master Data
Management solutions using the Sun MDM Suite.
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Anthony
Day
Senior Director - MDM Product Strategy
Oracle Corporation |
Anthony Day has twenty years
experience with Oracle -- spanning database and integration
technologies through to MDM applications. Based at Oracle’s
UK headquarters in
Reading, Anthony is responsible for Oracle’s MDM Product Strategy
in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He began his career
at Oracle in 1989 focusing on database technologies before
moving to Siebel Systems in 1997 where he spent nine years
gaining deep customer domain expertise and overseeing the
introduction of the first three releases of Siebel’s Universal
Customer Master Hub. Following the acquisition of Siebel Systems
by Oracle Corporation in early 2006, his responsibilities
were broadened to cover all of Oracle’s customer mastering
products and more recently extended to cover the full suite
of Oracle’s MDM solutions. Anthony’s role involves working
closely with Oracle’s key customers to ensure business goals
and technical requirements are met. This high level of customer
engagement enables him to provide strategic input into the
product definition and development plans.
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Jean-Michel
Detavernier
Co-Head IT
SMABTP |
As co-Head of the IT Division of SMABTP (Société Mutuelle
d’Assurance du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics), the leading
insurer for the French construction sector, Jean-Michel
Detavernier is responsible for leading the revamp of
the company’s existing IT legacy infrastructure system and
adoption of a service oriented architecture. He also co-authored
a book with fellow IT and business decision makers to share
his vision and lessons learned from the SMABTP SOA implementation.
The book will be published by the end of this year. Mr.
Jean-Michel Detavernier received his civil engineering degree
from Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) in Mons, Belgium.
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Dave
Evans
BT |
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 UK
for 21 years. He has experience and knowledge in many aspects
of Information Management disciplines. His current focus is
to provide professional services, strategic business case
development and solutions to BT’s external customers. He specialises
in data quality, information architecture, metadata management,
business intelligence and data extraction, transformation
and load. He is heavily involved in managing BT’s relationships
with some of its key strategic software suppliers. He has
previous project management experience, delivering significant
components of BT’s marketing data warehouse and operator services
systems, all realising major data quality and management benefits.
He has also delivered a number of collaborative working solutions.
He is an experienced presenter and has spoken at many Information
Management conferences in the UK,
the US and Europe.
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Bridgette
Griffiths
BT Design |
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.
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Philip
Howard
Research Director
Bloor Research |
Philip Howard started in the
computer industry way back in 1973 and has variously worked
as a systems analyst, programmer and salesperson, as well
as in marketing and product management, for a variety of companies
including GEC Marconi, GPT, Philips Data Systems, Raytheon
and NCR. After a quarter of a century of not being his own
boss, he set up his own company in 1992 and his first client
was Bloor Research (then ButlerBloor), with himself working
for the company as an associate analyst. His relationship
with Bloor Research has continued since that time and he is
now Research Director focused on Data Management. Data management
refers to the management, movement, governance and storage
of data and involves diverse technologies that include (but
are not limited to) databases and data warehousing, data integration
(including ETL, data migration and data federation), data
quality, master data management, metadata management and log
and event management. He also tracks spreadsheet management
and complex event processing. In addition to the numerous
reports Mr. Howard has written on behalf of Bloor Research,
he also contributes regularly to IT-Director.com and IT-Analysis.com.
Mr. Howard has also contributed to various magazines and written
a number of reports published by companies such as CMI and
The Financial Times. He speaks regularly at conferences and
other events throughout Europe and North America.
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Muhammad
S. Khakwani
Data Architect
Saudi Aramco |
Muhammad S. Khakwani is a lead
Data Architect with Saudi Aramco working in the E&P Database
Services Division. Mr. Khakwani has over 17 years experience
in the IT industry, working in Canada,
United States, and
for the last ten years in Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia. He has in-depth expertise
in database design, and has consulted on various public and
private sector large scale projects globally. Currently,
his responsibilities include designing and managing the enterprise
data model, supervising and managing changes and policies
related to enhancing database structures necessary to meet
changing business needs at Aramco. Mr. Khakwani has
a B.S from University of Western Ontario, and an MIS from
Webster University.
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Kurt
Koch
Area Head Strategic Enterprise Services
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG |
Kurt Koch has over 25 years
of experience in IT in numerous environments (mainframe, client/server,
web, SAP, etc.). Within Roche Pharmaceuticals Division, Kurt
focuses on the Supply Chain and Finance business areas. He
has also held several different positions within IT organizations.
For the past several years, Kurt has lead the Strategic Enterprise
Services organization, which includes Master Data Management,
Enterprise Application Integration, and Data Warehouses &
Business Intelligence. This organization is responsible for
the architecture, design, implementation, maintenance and
support of these platforms as well as for the applications
(and projects) running on top of them. Within the area of
MDM, a substantial part of his team’s work consists of business
consulting -- i.e. promoting usage of existing master data,
integration of new master data requirements, and supporting
business’s data governance of master data. Mr. Koch received
his diploma in Mathematics from University in Mainz (Germany).
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Charlie
Lawhorn
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Stibo Systems
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Charlie Lawhorn oversees global
marketing and business development efforts for Stibo Systems,
and the company's STEP master data management platform. Mr.
Lawhorn’s responsibilities also include managing strategic
relationships with the leading analyst and consulting firms
in the master data and data governance marketplace. Mr. Lawhorn
began his career with Stibo Systems in 2002, and brings to
his position more than 14 years of experience in building
mutually beneficial enterprise relationships for leading global
companies such as FedEx Kinko’s and Xerox Corporation.
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Stéphane
Libotte
Senior MDM Business Process Analyst
Syngenta |
Stéphane Libotte has over 18
years experience in the SAP R/2 & R/3 Data Management
area. Stéphane has been heavily involved the
all Syngenta and previous companies data migration and consolidation
projects. For the past 18 months, he has lead the
SAP MDM global implementation for the Seeds branch with the
vision to rollout this solution to the entire group.
Before joining Syngenta, Stéphane managed large scale IT projects for
several major international food retail companies as
well as banking firms.
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Frederic
Loriaux
Data Quality Manager
Nestlé France |
Frederic Loriaux has broad experience
in project management via over 15 years of ERP implementations
with a focus on SAP implementation management. His organizational
skills have led him to take over Data Quality Management responsibility
at Nestle France
in a unique worldwide MDM context. He is currently managing
18 people devolved to Data Quality control. Their role is
to control Data Quality at its source and to track any risk
of suboptimal quality to put in place corrective and
sustainable actions. Frederic secures the impacts of these
actions by chairing a Data Governance committee comprised
of senior managers who provide a company-wide network of data
experts. He has built and set-up different tools and methods
to govern the comprehensive knowledge of data usage within
the enterprise to leverage it for the widest possible
sharing. He always implements his innovative approach
of Data Quality on a wide scale which has acknowledged him
as a prime mover in Information Management within Nestle.
Finally, Frederic is involved in various international
work groups concerning Data Quality within the Retail and
Manufacturing industries. Mr. Loriaux received his engineering
degree in Automation and Data Processing from National Institute
of Industrial Chemistry in Rouen, France.
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Tommy
Loughlin
Chief Architect - MDM Platform
BT |
Tommy Loughlin is currently
working on the Master Data Management (MDM) architecture for
BT's strategic operational and business support systems. BT
has adopted an MDM strategy as a core component of its architectural
transformation to enable key business objectives. His team has
delivered Product MDM solutions that radically improve time
to market for product launch and change and Customer MDM implementations
that underpin BT's customer service targets. This is his second
stint at BT having spent 10+ years there designing and developing
telecoms software and systems before leaving in 1996 to form
telecom start-up Virtual Access and subsequently joining mobile
software vendor OpenWave Systems. Mr. Loughlin received his
BSc Electronics from Queens University Belfast in 1979 and MSc
Information Technology from University of Ulster in 1993.
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Sandeep
Manchanda
Senior Vice President, Head
of Information & Technology Management, General
Insurance
Zurich Financial Services |
Sandeep Manchanda has over
twenty years experience as a leader and advisor to the top
leaders of Fortune 500 firms. Since joining Zurich Financial
Services in 2006, Mr. Manchanda has established the Information
and Technology Management framework for all General Insurance
Global Core Functions, focusing on customers, risk, and project
execution. He is also leading a global effort called One
Zurich One View. This effort has created customer and distributor
data standards, which are being implemented using Master Data
Management technology to enable market and customer analytics
in support of cross-selling efforts. At Zurich, Mr. Manchanda
has also created the Customer and Distributor Data Council
to agree on and govern data definitions and standards. He
received his MBA with Distinction from the Stern School of
Business, New York University and his Bachelor of Technology
in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.
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Dr.
Madassar Manzoor
UK National Heath Services
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Dr Manzoor 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.
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Jeanette
Møller
Master Data Program Manager
Nordea Bank |
Jeanette Møller has been working
within the Information Management space for the past seven
years in different roles initially as a data steward, manager
for a data steward unit, project manager for various analytical
master data implementations, and the list continues. Ms.
Møller joined Nordea in 1997 and has held a number of different
positions ranging from IT Manager to Head of Finance Business
Development to Program Manager for various data strategic
programmes. Currently she is the Master Data Program Manager
with responsibility for executing Nordea’s company-wide Master
Data strategy. This Master Data Program includes four projects,
two external supporting suppliers and five countries. Ms.
Møller holds a Masters Degree in Management Accounting from
Aarhus Business School in Denmark.
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Richard
Pilkington
Director of Marketing
Syncsort
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Richard Pilkington is Director
of Product Marketing for Syncsort and is responsible for driving
research and product management efforts. This includes product
strategy, messaging/positioning, sales process/training, customer/market
analyses, and partnership/alliance development. Previously,
Mr. Pilkington was Global Operations Manager in AIG’s
International Property and Casualty Division where he was
one of the key architects driving design and deployment of
new product development and service delivery models across
a network of 138 offices in 98 countries. Mr. Pilkington has
over 20 years of business development and management experience
during which time he has held positions as a Principle for
a management consultancy, COO for a mid-size insurance company,
and a large scale technology deployment manager for a major
US-based financial services company. During his career, he
and his family have resided in France, Switzerland, Brazil,
and the United Arab Emirates. Mr. Pilkington holds an MBA
from Columbia Business School and a joint Masters Degree in
their School of International Affairs and School of Arts &
Sciences. He also holds a joint Bachelors Degree in Industrial
Engineering/Operations Research from Columbia’s School
of Engineering and Columbia College.
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Dileep
Srinivasan
Asst. Vice President –
MDM & CRM
Cognizant Technology Solutions |
Dileep Srinivasan is the Assistant
Vice President – CRM & Global CDI/MDM Practice 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. He received
his MBA from the National University of Singapore.
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Antony
Stanway
Director Business Intelligence
Services
Deutsche Bank |
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Leo
Stout
KPN |
Leo Stout is IT Enterprise
Architect at KPN, the leading telecommunications & ICT
provider in The Netherlands. He is responsible for the IT
strategy and guidance for the KPN B2B Division. Mr. Stout
has been working at KPN for 8 years. During this period he
has helped in realizing KPN's business goals as a Business
Consultant for Enterprise Performance Management, Business
Architect for Consumer Broadband Services and Manager Architecture
for the corporate IT domain containing ERP, Master Data Management
and Application Integration. Before joining KPN, he has worked
for 9 years as a Business Consultant ERP & Business Intelligence
at Logica CMG. Mr. Stout received his Masters degree in Business
Computer Sciences from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
He is married as has two children.
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Ralf
Teschner
Cognizant Technology Solutions |
Ralf Teschner is Business Consultant
in the CDI/MDM Practice at Cognizant Technology Solutions,
based in London. With over 17 years of experience as a business
analyst and consultant, Mr. Teschner has built a track record
of delivering substantial business benefit by delivering on
a wide range of innovative cost-cutting and revenue growth
strategies. In his current role, he is focused on developing
Cognizant’s verticalised, pre-built MDM offerings (MDM-in-a-Box)
and working with clients on identifying and achieving their
business benefits in the rapid deployment of bespoke MDM implementations.
Following master’s degrees in Munich and Aachen, Mr.
Teschner worked in Germany, the U.S. and the UK, most recently
at Gartner, the IT research firm.
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Nigel
Turner
BT Exact |
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, Canada.
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Ertu
Uysal
Product Manager
KOMTAS |
Ertu Uysal has been working
within several IT disciplines for the past six years; examples
of which are, software development specialist, technical project
manager for distributed software systems, project manager
and product manager for Identity Resolution, Data Quality
and Data Integration tools and projects. Mr. Ertu Uysal has
joined Havelsan A.S in 2003 and has held several positions
starting from software development specialist to technical
team leader for 3 years. Since November 2007, he has been
working for Komtas Bilgi Yönetimi Danismanlik A.S, which
is the leading Consultancy,Software Development and System
Integrator Company on Identity Resolution, Data Quality and
Data Integration, as a Product Manager. Currently, he is managing
the portfolio of the products including Informatica Data Integration
and Data Quality Platform, i2 Link Analysis, ACL (Audit Analytics
and Continuous Monitoring Software Language), Pentana Paws
Audit Management and Risk Software and Norkom Technologies
in Komtas. Mr. Ertu Uysal has Computer Engineering Bachelor’s
Degree from Bilkent University, Engineering Management Master’s
degree from Middle East Technical University and holds Bilimer
Akademi PMP Certification.
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Arnold
van Overeem
Global Architect - Sector
Products, Architecture and Infrastructure
Capgemini Netherlands |
Arnold van Overeem brings over
34 years of experience in architecture and design of international
telecommunications and information interchange infrastructures
and transformational issues to his role as Global Architect
in the Sector Products of Capgemini Netherlands.
Before taking up this role in July 2001, Mr. van Overeem had
a similar role in the Sector Finance of Capgemini Netherlands.
He is a senior member of the international architecture community
in Capgemini and a member of The Open Group UDEF Project,
and has been working in banking, insurance, automotive industry,
chemical industry, high-tech industry, retail, logistics,
public services and telecom industry in roles varying from
consulting to interim management. He is an expert on infrastructure
architecture and has been instrumental in setting up infrastructures
both at commercial and governmental organisations. His roles
cover strategic, technical, organisational and security aspects.
Before joining Capgemini, Mr. van Overeem was ICT-consultant
and project manager at the NMB-bank, one of the founding organisations
of the ING-group where he contributed to the creation of the
online payment and telebanking infrastructure in the Netherlands.
He graduated in chemistry and numerical mathematics from the
Leiden University in 1974 and is a vice chair of the Semantic
Interoperability workgroup of The Open Group.
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Bart
van Thiel
Management Consultant
ConQuaestor Management Consulting |
Bart van Thiel is Senior Consultant
at ConQuaestor Consulting in the Netherlands. Mr. van Thiel
has been consulting for eight years with profound experience
in describing and translating business processes and business
requirements into IT solutions. He has a vast experience in
the utilities and telecom domain with specific focus on optimization
of financial processes (P2P, O2C, and R2R), ERP and SSC/Outsourcing.
In his latest (MDM) project at KPN as project manager, Mr.
van Thiel was responsible for the realisation of efficiency
improvements and associated cost reduction within the process
Record to Report where the requirements included a single
and univocal determination of financial master data plus an
efficient process for the management of financial master data
for the substitution of the former complex, labour-intensive
and expensive process. The end result was the creation of
a central location for the management of financial master
data. This MDM project at KPN was completed in early 2009
with KPN now reaping the benefits of the solution. Mr. van
Thiel received his Masters degree in Business Administration
from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
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Narendra
Vyas
Head Customer Self Service
& Data Management
Thomson Reuters Markets |
Narendra Vyas heads the Master
Data Management initiative for ThomsonReuters Markets &
has been responsible for building the strategic approach &
delivering on the execution for the company. He started in
the company in 1993 heading South Asia Technical operations
till his move to London in late 1999 to head their knowledge
management programme. Narendra has over 15 years experience
in the field of customer service and data management.
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Andy
Walker
MDM Lead
BP |
Andy Walker has worked for
BP for 23 years and lives in Ascot, London. Mr. Walker has
spoken on the subject of MDM at the SAP Sapphire Orlando conference
in May 2008, the Vienna user conference in May 2007, the MDM
Gartner conference (Florida) in September 2007 and the MDM
Summit (New York) in November 2007. He provides program coordination
of MDM activities in BP and has developed standards for the
implementation of the MDM architecture and also maintains
a consolidated list of MDM related activities. In addition
to MDM, Mr. Walker’s areas of expertise include ERP
deployment, with both SAP and non-SAP systems. He graduated
from Loughborough University with a First Class Batchelor
of Science Honours degree in Computer Studies in 1985.
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Kjell
Wittmaack
Chief Knowledge Officer,
Practice Director MDM
Platon A/S |
Kjell Wittmaack is an industry
expert and practicing consultant within the field of Information
Management advising companies on strategic issues. Mr. Wittmaack
is also the Chief Knowledge Officer for Platon, an independent
world-class consulting company. He carries the responsibility
for knowledge capturing, sharing and leveraging among Platon's
more than 200 consultants.
Mr. Wittmaack is also the lead architect on Platon's unique
Information Management methodology encapsulating the company's
vast and specialized body of knowledge. Mr. Wittmaack has
been with Platon for more than 9 years. He received his Master
of Science degree in Business Administration and Computer
Science from Copenhagen Business School.
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Paul
Woodward
Enterprise Data Architect
British Airways |
Paul Woodward has worked at
British Airways for the last 20 years in roles ranging from
Systems Analyst through to Enterprise Data Architect including
spells in the commercial team responsible for the creation
of “ba.com”, the airlines award winning website.
Mr. Woodward created the model for implementation of data
governance within British Airways as well as managing the
implementation responsibility for data governance. Prior to
his data governance charter, he was responsible for the development
and improvement of data structures for the integrated corporate
data warehouse and promoting the use of modelling within the
Information Management community. Mr. Woodward also provided
consultancy to project teams within BA in addition to developing
of enterprise data models across BA and promoting their use.
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Ed
Wrazen
VP Product Marketing
Trillium Software
|
Ed Wrazen is VP Product Marketing,
Trillium Software, a leading provider of total data quality
solutions. Ed has been in the Information Technology industry
for over 25 years initially working as a programmer on retail
banking and travel reservation systems. Ed has been heavily
involved in database technologies and data management since
the 1980s when he worked with Codd & Date, the leading
database pioneers as a consultant, lecturer and database design
and performance specialist. Since the early 90s, Ed has worked
with a number of leading data management software and services
organizations, specializing in data migration, data integration,
data quality and technology strategies. He is a frequent presenter
and commentator on data management and data quality topics
at industry conferences around the world and a regular contributor
to press and analyst research firms.
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Aaron
Zornes
Founder & Chief Research Officer
The MDM Institute
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Aaron Zornes is the founder
and chief research officer of the MDM Institute (formerly
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 master data management
(MDM), customer data integration (CDI), and data governance.
Mr. Zornes is also the editor and lead contributor to DM Review’s
CDI and MDM Newsletters as well as the monthly columnist for
both CDI and MDM. Prior to founding the 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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