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Nadim Bhatti has over 17 years experience in the IT Industry mostly spent in the financial services sector. He has worked for 13 years in the Data Integration and Reference Data space, during which time he has been Project Lead on many large systems integration projects. He is the Data Solutions Architect and Build Manager for Asset Management's Enterprise Global Data Hub. He has more recently been co-leading the implementation of the Deutsche Asset Management MDM strategy and Data Reference Architecture framework using a SOA framework. His adoption of CRM oriented MDM tools and practices for the Financial Services industry has kept him firmly at the forefront of this growing domain space. Session: |
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David Corrigan joined IBM in 2005 and is currently responsible for product strategy of IBM InfoSphere, including IBM's Master Data Management group of products. Mr. Corrigan recently returned to IBM from Camilion Solutions, where he was the Vice President of Product Strategy and Management. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Corrigan worked at DWL Inc., and was responsible for product strategy, marketing, and product management for DWL Customer, a leading CDI hub. Session:
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Fabio Corzo holds a PhD, MSc and BSc in Computer Science with emphasis in architecture. Fabio has over 15 years of experience in the information and architecture space. An Information Architect formed from experiences in all types of data intensive projects; from data warehousing and BI through data integration to master data management. In recent years Fabio has focused on Enterprise Information Architecture vision and strategy helping organizations create, implement and evolve enterprise information architectures. Session: |
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Dr. Walid el Abed is the Founder President of Global Data Excellence. He is a worldwide renowned expert and visionary in the domains of Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Conversion, Metadata and Master Data Management. He is also a recognized international speaker and delivers training, seminars and conferences on Data Excellence from vision to value generation. Prior to founding Global Data Excellence, Walid was Business Excellence Manager at Nestlé headquarters, based in Switzerland. |
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Tony Ellis is an acknowledged champion of the need for councils to improve the quality of their customer information. During his public sector career, Mr. Ellis has been responsible for the building and implementation of two council wide master customer databases. He has chaired the customer user groups of two major customer data integration (CDI) suppliers. In 2006, Mr. Ellis established and chairs the Data Connects group whose membership is made up of local authorities who've already started CDI projects or just want to know how to get started. The aim of the group is to devise and share best CDI practice for UK local government and its partners. Session: |
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Chris Farnworth has over 20 years experience within information technology and consultancy arena. Mr. Farnworth started his career with Price Waterhouse management consultancy for five years providing consultancy and software development services across the Financial, Utility and Telecoms market sectors. He then spent time working for a US software house and also as a freelance consultant, as he performed roles in programme and delivery management in the UK, Europe and the US. Latterly Mr. Farnworth has specialised in CRM, customer insight and data warehousing applications, occupying principle roles for O2, Sainsbury's Bank and Halifax Bank of Scotland. In 2008, he joined HBOS as Lead Data Architect, responsible for formulating and delivering the group's data strategy. Following the merger with Lloyds, Mr. Farnworth took up the role as Lead Information Architect for Lloyds Banking Group where he has worked to establish the group's MDM capability and is the principle architect responsible for the group's customer domain strategy. With the integration of LTSB and HBOS, he currently is design lead for the integration of the group's operational customer platforms. Mr. Farnworth has a BSc in Economics from the University of Hull, and an MSc in IT from the University of Aston in Birmingham. Session: |
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Chris Furmanski is currently the UK Post Office's Enterprise Information Architect. Mr. Furmanski's 25+ years in Information Technology have spanned roles covering programming, data modelling, structured application design, development methods, and a number of architecture roles across business, applications and data architecture. He has increasingly focused on information architecture and in particular the power of information governance to improve the effectiveness of information use across an organisation. Mr. Furmanski has worked in numerous IT organisational models - in-house systems departments, centralized IT, federated IT departments, and retained IT organisations in an outsourced model. He works with senior management in IT and business areas to identify and progress enterprise-wide changes with a 3-5 year horizon. Prior to the Post Office, Mr. Furmanski spent 8+ years as Information Architect at Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Group. He graduated in Mathematics from the University of Warwick and taught Mathematics for 7 years after receiving a Post Graduate Certificate of Education from the University of Bristol. Session: |
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Dries Geeraert latest assignment was Director in the Processes and Systems department within Volvo Construction Equipment where he was in charge of the worldwide Master Data Management as well as initiatives on the Corporate Data Warehouse and Data Quality (the latter associated to both MDM and CDW). Prior to this professional assignment, he held a position as Principal Consultant Business Intelligence at CTG Belgium where he successfully lead various national an international projects, Most of them focussing on B.I. and Data Management. During some years, he assumed the role of European Quality Manager (ISO 9000 and TickIT) within CTG. Between 1999 and 2006, Dries combined his professional career with an assignment as professor at EMS (EHSAL Management School) in Brussels (Belgium) teaching on Project Management, Business Intelligence and Data Quality topics. Before, Dries has been working at Exxon Chemical International, first in internal audit and then in the area between IT and Sales & Marketing pioneering in what now is commonly known as Data Warehousing. He started his professional career with KPMG Belgium. He holds several Master Degrees which form along with a wide variety of business courses a solid basis for his almost twenty years of experience in the B.I. and Data Management areas. Session: |
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Steve Gray is British, he studied Information Technology at college and began his career in a UK Frozen Foods business in their IT development department. Whilst there, he worked on a wide variety of commercial, planning and supply chain systems. From IT Steve moved into the Finance function and became a qualified in accountant in a major UK Tea company. In the accounting function, Steve was responsible for the management accounting activities of a billion euro turnover business and was involved operationally in the disposal and acquisition of several businesses. During this period he was the functional contact responsible for the selection and implementation of finance software in the business. From this position Steve moved into the lead master data role in a programme which delivered a single regional (European) Unilever supply chain company supported by a standard set of systems and processes. This involved a complete review of the governance, definitions, ownership and data quality regime across the region. Steve's current role within Unilever is that of Director - Global Master Data Processes. In this position he is responsible for MDM issues across all operations in this 40 billion Euro turnover consumer products group business. Steve is a member of Unilever's Global Information Standards Board which is responsible for the development, deployment and compliance of key information and data standards across all units. Session: |
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Hardeep Gulati is vice president of product strategy for Oracle. In this role, he leads the product roadmap and business requirements that define Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management, Oracle Product Hub, and Oracle Sales Configurator. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Gulati was vice president of product development at SpinCircuit Inc., a PLM electronics company founded by Cadence, HP, Flextronics, and Avnet. He also served as the founder and chief technology officer for eBizAutomation Inc., a company that was acquired by SpinCircuit. Early in his career, Mr. Gulati held senior consulting positions at Lucent Technologies and Dun & Bradstreet. Mr. Gulati holds a master's in business administration from Wharton Business School. He also received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the National Institute of Technology in Nagpur, India and a master's in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India. Session:
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Denis Hamill is the senior Information Architect at National Australia Group Europe (NAGE), a leading UK Financial Services company which owns the Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks. Denis is responsible for providing the Bank's strategy and direction for enterprise data foundations such as Enterprise Data Model, Master Data Management, Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Data Quality. Denis has over 15 years technology experience, specialising in Enterprise Architecture and Information Architecture roles, within different sectors such as banking, utilities, health and education. Session: |
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Kirsten L. Jensen is Master Data Governance Manager at Novo Nordisk. With more than 17 years in the IT industry, Ms. Jensen is an expert in the application of IT to support a commercial pharmaceutical business. She also has industry credentials in IT strategies and business development. As a specialist in IT governance, Ms. Jensen has been instrumental in implementing a global master data strategy and governance organization, encompassing a large scale SAP environment and a number of non-SAP systems. Her prior ten years were spent as an IT consultant at NNIT and Novozymes were she worked with functional supply chain support and IT project management. Ms. Jensen received her degrees from Roskilde University Centre (Communication and Computer Science) and Copenhagen Business School. Session: |
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EA Manager Majbritt Jessen has been working
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Saul Judah has been with Barclays since October 2008, driving Data Quality and Information strategy initiatives that reduce cost, support growth strategies and meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Prior to joining Barclays Saul worked in top-tier management consulting companies for eighteen years across industry sectors, specialising in Information Strategy, Governance, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing. Session: |
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Kea Kangas-Lång has over fifteen years experience in data managing. For the last four years she has working with Nokia in master data management. Her current role is Data Manager for Product Master Data. In this role she has been building the Product Master Data Management capability, which includes processes, people and technology needed for being able to manage Product Master Data in Nokia. As enterprise Data Manager for Product Master Data she plays a key role in the implementation of Nokia's IT strategy through making the "single" truth of Product data happen. Session: |
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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). Session: |
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With almost 25 years experience in the information technology sector, Sean Kefford spent the early part of his career, as a mainframe programmer for BT plc (British Telecommunications). Following this he spent time developing an early executive information system for the directors of the Wellcome Foundation (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). He then moved from the customer side to work for a supplier, and for the past 11 years has managed professional services and pre-sales teams across various vertical sectors whilst also directing programmes for various key accounts and projects, most notably in the areas of application integration and EIM. Sean currently works as programme manager for Information Builders, having worked on notable projects such as managing all aspects of the Information Builders delivery of a single customer view to a large retail banking group with seven banking licences, 50 million customers and 130 million accountsSession:
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Pascal Laik is in charge of the Master Data Management (MDM) business for Europe at Informatica as the MDM Sales Director EMEA. Before that, he was the Vice President of MDM Products at Oracle with global product responsibilities including product strategy, product management, industry go to market, and the coordination of Oracle MDM sales, marketing, alliances, analyst relation and services groups. Prior to that position, Pascal led the Customer Data Integration (CDI) Oracle/Siebel solution specialist team in EMEA and following a position where he led the CDI/UAN product line at Siebel Systems within the Product Marketing organization. Before his 10 years at Siebel/Oracle, Pascal worked 8 years in Consulting including 4 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Paris as a Manager and 4 years with Andersen Consulting in Paris and Chicago as a Senior Consultant. Pascal has a Master of Science in Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (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. Session:
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Katja Leppälä is the MDM process owner in Nokia. She has worked with Master Data Management since 2002 and has been passionate for her whole Nokia career to make a difference in Information Management and Process development. Currently focusing to Master Data governance and processes, ranging from Customer, Product and Supplier Master Data to Reference, Financial and People Master Data. The MDM business platform team in Nokia, is responsible of the delivery of MDM business infrastructure solutions and master data services for entire Nokia. Session: |
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Aaron Mahimainathan is senior director, platform marketing for SAP. In this role, he focuses on marketing and strategy definition for information governance and the enterprise information management portfolio. Previously he held positions in product management including product strategy and definition of the SAP MDM product. He has over 13 years of experience in technology consulting, product marketing, management and strategy. Prior to Joining SAP, Mr. Mahimainathan led the data quality product line at Siebel Systems’ as part of their customer data integration (CDI) solution. Prior to Siebel, he held senior consulting management positions at Oracle Corp. where he led several implementation projects for Oracle’s ERP and CRM solutions with focus on the telecommunication industry. Mr. Mahimainathan holds a MBA from University of California, Berkeley and a MS in Engineering from State University of New York, Syracuse. Session:
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Steve Parry heads up the European arm of Cognizant's MDM Practice that has grown to more than 400 practitioners globally. His experience of Information Management spans more than 20 years working with some of the largest corporations worldwide. His passion for MDM stems from encouraging organizations to recognize and get value from their information assets in such companies as Shell, Unilever, JPMorgan, Wärtsilä, Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemicals, as well as a number of software vendors. Steve has worked on many successful MDM initiatives enabling improved operations, revenue growth strategies and effective data governance as well as feeding BI systems with reliable, single view-type data. In 2011 many more organizations are realizing MDM is critical to meeting their regulatory obligations and business objectives. Session: |
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Ian Pestell has over twenty years experience in the enterprise software market in such areas as simulation modelling, RDBMS performance analysis and data integration. He is currently the Technical Director for Composite's EMEA operation. Prior to joining Composite, Mr. Pestell was an enterprise architect at BMC Software using EII and EAI technologies for application and data integration of the BMC product suite providing business systems management solutions and enterprise reporting. He was also co-founder and CTO of Simulus a UK-based technology company providing simulation-based performance analysis tools for Oracle and UDB. Simulus was acquired by BMC in 2002. Mr. Pestell has also worked on large data integration and data storage projects at Cray Research. He received a First Class Honours degree in Computer Science from the University of the South Bank London. Session: |
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Ulla Savoretti is a CMU Certified Enterprise Architect with 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Ulla has been working in different industries such as Banking, Transportation and Energy. She has introduced and implemented corporate data models across organisations, governance processes as well as reusable interfaces using the CDM. Her area of expertise is within Information Management. Ulla has spoken on IM conferences inDenmark and Norway . Session: |
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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. Session: |
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Neil Storkey is responsible for creating a world class data management capability at BAT with key focus areas of integrity and sustainability of the information assets held within the enterprise data warehouse. Mr. Storkey has 17 years prior experience of leading and delivering MDM business / IT change management programs in large global enterprises. These included enterprise MDM strategies, business change management, and establishing MDM working practices around standards, stewardship, governance, organisation and quality. Prior to BAT, he was Senior Enterprise Architect for MDM at Nokia where he was responsible for the master data governance program. Mr. Storkey also helped drive the SAP MDM implementation at Nortel Networks with an emphasis on Global Finance Data Governance processes. He attended Scots College and Victoria University of Wellington. 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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Thore Thomassen has worked with IT solutions for the financial sector as a developer, project manager and architect since 1989. He started in Storebrand in 1997 and has been one of the main architects behind Storebrands SOA initiative. He has a Bsc in Computer Science from Heriot Watt in Scotland. Currently he is a working with IT strategy and is the main architect for the customer area within Storebrand. He has been one of the main driving forces behind establishing a common Nordic customer solution for Storebrand, based on IBMs MDM package. Thore has a broad experience from SOA based solutions and is currently working on an initiative to standardize, integrate and automate business processes across the enterprise. Session: |
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Nigel Turner is an independent data management consultant, specialising in enterprise data quality and data governance. Recently he authored part of the Institute of Direct Marketing's "IDM Award in Data Management", a new online data management training programme to be launched in March 2011. Prior to this Nigel worked for British Telecommunications plc. (BT) for 30 years. He held a variety of senior roles at BT, mainly specialising in information management and CRM. His last BT role was as an Information Management Consultant within BT's Innovate & Design, where he worked with BT Group Human Relations to improve BT's management of personnel information. Before this Nigel ran BT Innovate & Design's Customer Management practice where he led a team of 170 consultants & technical specialists in CRM and Data & Information Management, including data warehousing, data migration, data quality, data mining, data visualisation, business intelligence, Siebel, Interactive Voice Response & Computer Telephony Integration. He also spent five years in BT's Group Strategy unit, where he led enterprise wide business information management and data quality initiatives. During this period he also personally provided data management consultancy to a number of external organisations including the UK Ministry of Defence, HBOS, Intel US & Belgacom. Nigel has published several papers on information management (IM) and data quality, and is a regular speaker at CRM & IM conferences. In November 2007 he was voted runner up in the Data Strategy magazine's Data Manager of the Year award. Session:
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Dr Thomas Vogel studied business administration and computer science in Germany and the United States. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge, UK. He started his career as a research scientist with Alcatel Research, Paris. Since 1995 Thomas is with Novartis, Switzerland, where he was responsible for the build up of the global wide area network, head of infrastructure and operations for a Novartis Division, head e-business IT and head corporate application infrastructure and architecture. In 2006 Thomas was named Head Information Management, Novartis Pharma. Session: |
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Adam White brings 20+ years of experience in large banking and insurance system initiatives with a focus on MDM enterprise initiatives. Mr. White's most recent project experience includes experience with IBM's WebSphere Customer Center, Informatica MDM (Siperian), Oracle's Customer Data Hub, Siebel's Universal Customer Master, Initiate Systems (now IBM Master Data Services), and Data Flux: development of enterprise roadmaps to move large organizations into SOA architecture, implementations of CDI, MDM, metadata repository, and data governance processes. Project responsibilities included: business requirements, functional requirements, vendor product evaluations, business case, vendor contracts for software and services, and configuration requirements - including data mastering requirements. Prior to Baseline Consulting, as Senior Manager of Integration for the California State Automobile Association he managed key initiatives including: Enterprise CDI, SOA architecture for Enterprise Orchestration and Enterprise Middleware, and Metadata Repository. He also was a contributor to the corporate IT Re-Engineering and Data Governance transformation programs. Additionally, Mr. White was employed at Wells Fargo during its acquisition of Crocker National (the largest banking merger in history at that time), as well as projects with IBM and EDS. He received his MBA from St. Mary's College of California. Session: |
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Ed Wrazen is VP Marketing International with Harte-Hanks Trillium Software, a leading provider of total data quality solutions. Working with customers, partners and industry analysts, Ed is responsible for the international marketing operations of Trillium Software . With over 25 years experience working on IT systems, Ed started his career as a computer programmer on retail banking and travel reservation systems. He has been heavily involved in database and data management technologies as a product developer, consultant and lecturer, specialising in data architecture, performance design, data integration and data quality.. He is a regular speaker at industry events worldwide and author on data management, data governance and data quality topics. Session:
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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. Session:
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