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Eric Chacon is the Global Head of Data standards for Citi’s Chief Data Office. He has been with the CDO since its inception in 2010, and was a member of the team which developed the Global Data Roadmap, Citi’s end-to-end data management strategy, in 2009. Prior to joining the Chief Data Office, Eric ran the Business Architecture competency for Citigroup’s Architecture and Technology Engineering group (CATE), architecture and solution-design support to Citi’s business units. Eric joined Citi in 2005, from IBM’s Business Consulting Services group where he provided Technology Strategy consulting services for IBM’s clients including Citigroup, Bloomberg, S&P, and other Financial Services companies. Prior to business consulting he was an architect and developer in the telecom-datacom space, designing and developing networking devices for companies such as Siemens, Racal-Datacom, and Fujitsu. Eric has a B.S. in computer science from the University of Florida. He was a member of the Florida Army National Guard with a Military Occupational Specialty of Infantry and later, Military Intelligence (Counterintelligence). He lives in Forest Hills with his wife and 7 year old son. Session: |
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Malcolm Chisholm has over 25 years experience in data management, and has worked in a variety of sectors, including finance, insurance, manufacturing, government, defense and intelligence, pharmaceuticals, and retail. He is an independent consultant specializing in data governance, master data management, metadata engineering, business rules management/execution, data architecture and design, and the organization of Enterprise Information Management. Malcolm is a well-known presenter at conferences in the US and Europe, writes columns in trade journals, and has authored the books: Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases; How to Build a Business Rules Engine; and Definitions in Information Management. He holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, and can be contacted at mchisholm@refdataportal.com. Session: |
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Stijn Christiaens is co-founder and operational director at Collibra (www.collibra.com), a Data Governance enterprise software company. As such he has a global responsability for all technical pre sales, implementation and support activities. This allows him to have a front seat view on real customer demands, issues and implementation challenges. Prior to founding the company he was a senior researcher at the Free University of Brussels STARLab, a leading semantic research center in Europe, performing application-driven research in semantics. As such, he participated actively in several international (ITEA, FP6, FP7) research projects and conferences (OTM, FIS, ESTC, ...). Stijn has also published various articles in the field of ontology engineering. He is an active DAMA member and speaker at DAMA events in Europe and was recently one of the best received speakers at the IDC SOA event in London with his presentation on 'Business Driven SOA'. Session: |
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The Founder and Managing Partner of Fitzgerald Analytics, Jaime G Fitzgerald has developed a distinctively quantitative, fact-based, and transparent approach to solving high stakes problems and improving results. His approach enables translation of Data to Dollars™ using methodologies clients can repeat again and again. He is equally passionate about the “human side of the equation,” and is known for his ability to link the human and the quantitative, both of which are needed to achieve optimal results. During more than 15 years serving clients as a strategy consultant, Jaime has focused on customer experience and loyalty, customer profitability, technology strategy, information management, and business process improvement. Jaime has advised market-leading banks, retailers, manufacturers, media companies, and non-profit organizations in the United States, Canada, and Singapore, combining strategic analysis with hands-on implementation of technology and operations enhancements. Session: |
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Sean Kimball is a senior executive with 20 years of IT financial services experience in investments, banking and insurance, managing global data strategy, architecture, infrastructure, operations, network, data services, development, and IT risk in 12 countries. Session: |
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Michele Koch is the Director of Enterprise Data Management and the Data Governance Office at Sallie Mae. Michele was responsible for the successful design and implementation of the enterprise Data Governance and Data Quality Programs at Sallie Mae. Their Data Governance Program won TDWI’s 2010 Best Practices Award for Data Governance and the international 2011 Data Governance Best Practice Award. Michele received dual masters’ degrees from The American University and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. Session:
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Denis Kosar has been a leader in data management and data architecture for over 30 years. He has held executive positions in data architecture and data governance at Chase Manhattan Bank, Prudential Healthcare, Citigroup, SAP and now AIG. His current position is VP Data Governance at AIG where he is responsible for developing and rolling out the Data Governance across AIG and all of its affiliate companies. Previously Denis has been a Data Governance consultant where he has helped companies establish the role in a number of different industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Government and Entertainment. Denis is an educator and writer on data related topics. He has presented papers at numerous seminars and conferences. Some examples include: "Data Warehousing, Practical Advice from the Experts", Prentice Hall 1997 (contributor) "Data Quality in the Healthcare Industry", a paper presented at MIT's Total Data Quality Management Program's 1999 Information Quality Conference. You can reach him at denis.kosar@aig.com. |
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Frank Lemieux is Vice President Financial Services Solutions at Adaptive, Inc. and has over 25 years of project management, business analysis, technical design and implementation experience serving the financial services industry with extensive subject matter expertise in banking and capital markets, reference data, market data and risk data, including the associated metadata requirements and data quality issues. His focus includes data quality, metadata management, information taxonomy and ontology solutions, strategic blueprint and roadmap for enterprise data management platforms, workflow management, requirements gathering, database design, ETL, relational data models, prototyping, software development, quality assurance, project management, business analysis, and data warehousing. Prior to joining Adaptive, Frank was the global lead for Data Quality and Business Semantics for one of the world's leading global consultancies. Session: |
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Dr. Geoffrey Malafsky has a PhD in Nanotechnology from The Pennsylvania State University. He was a research scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory before becoming a technology consultant in advanced system capabilities and designs for numerous Government agencies. He has over 25 years of experience and is an expert in multiple fields ranging from Nanotechnology, modeling & simulation, Knowledge Discovery & Dissemination, object-attribute data systems, and information engineering. He founded and operated the technology consulting company TECHi2 providing support for challenging problems in enterprise-scale data engineering, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business Intelligence, and rapid prototyping of distributed web systems. He is now CEO of software start-up company Phasic Systems Inc offering the DataStar product suite with its innovations in semantic technology, object-based data models, and high-performance web data transactions to the Government and corporate markets for enterprise-scale high-quality authoritative data. Session: |
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Over 17 years of computer industry experience in management software development and consulting. For the past 7 years I have been focused on delivering data management solutions to companies all over North America from financial services, government contractors, healthcare, higher ed and retail to name a few. Currently, I am the Information Governance Practice Director at BTRG, where we provide our customers with solutions that reduce the overall project time and cost for implementing enterprise-wide information governance. Session: |
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Xiu McGovern is the Data Quality Management and Governance Executive for Bank of America’s Consumer Banking division. In this role, she is responsible for data quality, metadata, lineage and data controls as well as data governance functions for the Customer, Deposits, Mortgage, Card, and Payments domains. Xiu leverages a four-pillar strategy designed to measure, mitigate, control and simplify the data environment. She executes using a risk based approach focused on key business elements and prioritized systems and applications. Her goal is to ensure the Consumer Bank meets or exceeds the enterprise data management policy and standards thus driving financial benefit, improving customer satisfaction and reducing regulatory risk. Prior to her current role, Xiu was the Analytics Operations Executive for the Customer Segments and Deposits organizations. Her responsibility was focused on optimizing the existing data environment and building new capabilities. She built business intelligence tools that promoted self-service reporting and analytics, and provided new customer and house-hold oriented views of data to facilitate strategy development. Xiu joined Bank of America in July 2007 as the Small Business Segment Analytics Executive. Prior to joining the bank, Xiu worked internationally and domestically for General Electric in the Consumer Finance and Banking division for 13 years. At GE, Xiu held various roles in Finance, Quality, Project Management, and Pricing and Product Management. Xiu graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and East Asian Studies. Xiu is also a graduate of GE’s Financial Management Program and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Session: |
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Arka Mukherjee, the founder and CEO of Global IDs Inc., is a well-known expert in global data management, with extensive experience in creating new technologies to assist businesses in the U.S. and around the world. Arka founded Global IDs (GIDs) in 2001. Under his leadership, the company has developed Master Data Management and Data Governance products and solutions for a myriad of Fortune 2000 companies across multiple vertical industries. Arka was the lead architect in developing GIDs semantic solutions to help companies save time and money, while also offering better data traceability to help customers reduce risk. Prior to GIDs, he was the principal of IBM Global Services where he was the practice leader in business intelligence services and was responsible for building and growing this e-business practice. Before IBM, he was a senior manager at Andersen Consulting (currently Accenture) and was a practice leader in implementing enterprise-wide technology architectures. Arka has had several papers published in trade magazines and research journals and is a regular speaker at trade shows and expositions. He received a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from Princeton University. Session:
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Linda Powell is the Chief of the Economic Data Management and Analysis section in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She has a BA in Economics from Rutgers University and an MS in Finance from George Washington University. She has over 25 years of experience in the banking industry including a money center bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, and the Board of Governors. She has worked in research for over ten years. Session: |
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Robert (Bob) S. Seiner is the President and Publisher of KIK
Consulting & Educational Services and the Publisher of The Data
Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). In 2012, TDAN.com will celebrate its 15th
anniversary and attracts close to 125K visitors every month. In 2012, KIK
Consulting will celebrate its 10th anniversary and focuses on knowledge
transfer and consultative mentoring. Session: |
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Kenneth Viciana has extensive Data Management experience in the Financial Industry. He has led many strategic data initiatives in key areas including; Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Data Governance, and Business Intelligence. He is driven to deliver robust data management solutions that provide an enterprise golden source of data that is to be used in support of decision making, financial reporting, and compliance. Session: |
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Karl Wehden is a worldwide expert in Information Governance strategy for IBM and helps clients to define strategies to address data quality, information lifecycle management and data security. Mr. Wehden has worked with over 50 of the world's largest financial services organizations to drive real measureable business results from their Information Governance programs. Session: |
