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Dr. Suzanne Acar possesses over 25 years of government experience in enterprise data management and data architectures. She currently serves as the Principal Data Architect at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). She is also co-chair of the inter-agency Federal Data Architecture Subcommittee (DAS) under the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee (AIC) of the Federal CIO Council responsible for providing data interoperability and information sharing related advice based on the Federal Data Reference Model (DRM). In the past, she led award winning enterprise data management programs that furthered the interoperability goals of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Army. She serves as the government advisor for the Data Management Association (DAMA) National Capitol Region Chapter as well as MIT’s Information Quality Symposium. The DAMA International Government Award and the Federal 100 Award are among the many honors and awards Dr. Acar has received. Session:
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Steven Adler is Chairman of the IBM Data Governance Council, a leadership forum created in 2004 to explore common challenges and solutions in Data Governance. Session:
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Peter Aiken founded Data Blueprint (a professional services company providing value-based data engineering) in 1999 and is an Associate Professor (Information Systems/Virginia Commonwealth University). His experience and research has widely explored data and its relationship to systems and business engineering. He is the author of Data Reverse Engineering and Clive Finkelstein's co-author of Building Corporate Portals Using XML (McGraw-Hill 1996/99). His sixth book XML in Data Management is co-authored with David Allen. He has held leadership positions with the US Department of Defense and consulted with more than 50 organizations in 18 different counties. His research publications have appeared in the Communications of the ACM, IBM Systems Journal, IEEE Software and many others. He is a member of ACM, and the IEEE (Senior Member). He has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999 and has received two of their International Achievement Awards. He has lectured internationally on these and related topics. Session:
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Jessica
Suzanne Arroyo (Sue)
has over twenty years experience in information technology in both the federal
and commercial sectors. She worked for over ten years for the Directorate of
Logistics, CECOM, and the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Monmouth as a data
architect for MAPS, a procurement processing system for multiple Army
installations. She later worked as a project manager for the system and was
responsible for the planning and execution of multiple enhancement projects. Session:
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Laura Avent is the business lead for the Customer Master Data Management program at Lexmark. In addition to this role, she is the lead for Data Governance initiative at Lexmark. She has implemented several customer related programs at Lexmark. Prior to joining Lexmark Laura has worked in channel sales and marketing roles at various companies. Session:
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Dave Bartholomew has over 30 years experience as a technology executive and management consultant. The first 25 years of his career were spent in the financial services industry. Recently he joined Southern California Edison (SCE) in an Information Management Strategy leadership role for the Power Procurement Business Unit. SCE is one of the largest investor owned utilities in the country serving approximately 15 million customers in California. Session:
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Becky Briggs has over 20 years IT experience with the last 10 in data warehousing, business intelligence and data governance. Becky currently leads teams supporting her division in project management, strategic program management, quality management and performs the role of data steward for the enterprise data warehouse responsible for data management, security, classification, access management, data provisioning and data acquisition initiatives. Session:
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Donna Burbank has more than more than 12 years of experience in the areas of data management, metadata management, and enterprise architecture. Donna currently is the director of product marketing for CA’s data modeling solutions. Previous to this role, she has served in key brand strategy and product management roles at Computer Associates and Embarcadero Technologies and as a senior consultant for PLATINUM technology’s information management consulting division in both the U.S. and EMEA. She has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa and speaks regularly at industry conferences. She has recently co-authored a new book entitled Data Modeling for the Business. Session:
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Born In France, Marie Cartron-Mizeracki she completed a MS in Biochemistry at the National Institute of Agronomy in Paris and then a MS of Bioinformatics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After some time at the bench doing research in microbiology and pathology, she joined the Multiple Myeloma research group in Arkansas to take part in the management of their clinical and research database and perform some data analysis as well. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Information Quality at UALR under Dr.Wigand's mentoring. Session: |
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Winston Chen serves as Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, responsible for formulating long-term direction for Kalido's business strategy and product offerings, as well as developing key partnerships with technology, content and global services companies. Session:
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Malcolm Chisholm, Ph.D. has over 25 years of experience in enterprise information management and has worked in a wide range of sectors. He specializes in setting up and developing enterprise information management units, master data management, and business rules. His experience includes the financial, manufacturing, government, and pharmaceutical industries. Malcolm writes numerous articles and is a frequent presenter at industry events. He runs the websites www.refdataportal.com and www.bizrulesengine.com. Sessions:
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Stijn Christiaens is co-founder and operational director at Collibra (www.collibra.com), a Data Governance enterprise software company. Prior to founding the company he was a researcher at the Free University of Brussels STARLab, a prominent semantic research center in Europe, performing application-driven research in semantics. As such, he participated actively in several national (IWT, FWO, IWOIB) and 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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Data management strategist and data evangelist, Kira Chuchom heads up the Data Quality Strategy & Alignment group, Cisco’s Enterprise Data Quality and Data Governance, within Cisco IT’s Business Intelligence and Data Services organization. Kira and her team deliver business value through 1) stakeholder engagement and alignment in strategic data management, 2) design and operationalization of Data Governance, and 3) improving data quality across Cisco. The team fosters, facilitates and enables cross-functional collaboration and partnerships between business and IT across Cisco’s data ecosystem through key enablers such as a federated Data Governance framework, a Data Quality Improvement methodology that includes a Data Certification process, a Data Quality Center of Excellence that is co-led by key business and IT stakeholders, a thriving Stewardship Community, and usage of data quality tools. Kira’s experience also includes Master Data Management (Customer and Product), Enterprise Data Warehouses, data modeling, data architecture, hierarchy management and metadata strategy. Session: |
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Patricia Chung has over 10 years experience in decision support at large healthcare institutions and is currently working at Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. She has managed a several projects in data warehousing, business intelligence and other clinical and administrative systems. Pat has learned firsthand that the success to these projects is data quality and has sought to develop a process that would not only incorporate a technical function but engage users from all aspects of the organization on the importance of data quality. She holds a Masters in Health Administration from the University of Ottawa. Session: |
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Nancy
Curtis is a
pioneering practitioner of data governance, who has extended the principles and
practices into the content and knowledge management space. With a diverse
background in Industrial Engineering, IT, Marketing, and an MBA, she has a
holistic approach to solutions that are designed for success, based on
organizational adoption and return on investment. Session:
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Kevin Cusack is a Partner in Accenture’s Information Management Services group. He has over twenty-five years of broad industry and consulting experience in Information Technology. His delivery experience includes technology solutions to business analysis problems including Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence Portals, Master Data Management, Data Governance, Sales Reporting, Sales and Marketing Analysis, Inventory/Production Planning, Budgeting, Sales Forecasting, Strategic Planning, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Customer Relationship Management, and Information Technology Architecture and Strategy. Session:
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Debbie D Agostino is a Data Governance Leader at Hallmark Cards, Inc. Debbie has 30 years of experience at Hallmark including 20 years in Creative and Product Development, 8 years in Consumer Understanding and Insights and the last 2 years in Data Governance. Under her leadership in this role, Debbie has been responsible for developing and implementing strategies for treating data as a corporate asset, developing a corporate policy for the management of master data, building a data stewardship model and leading a corporate initiative to address sensitive information. Session:
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Elizabeth Davis leads the Information Quality Group at the IFC in the Accounting and Financial Operations Department. Elizabeth joined the IFC in April 2001 with the founding of what became the Information Quality Group within the Controller’s Department. This 4-person unit evolved from initial funding as a two year program for data clean-up into the IFC unit with responsibility for and the enterprise-wide mandate for data governance at IFC. In 2006, this function was recognized through an internal audit for achieving the best ratings in data governance maturity compared to hundreds of industry assessments by the contracting agency conducting the audit (Data Blueprint). Elizabeth is a member of the International Association of Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ) and a speaker on data governance best practices. Her academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Pepperdine University, and a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Session: |
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Gavin Day is responsible for the day-to-day domestic operations and the company's global IT infrastructure, which includes direct responsibility for DataFlux technical support capabilities. He also works closely with the DataFlux research and development group to deliver customer-driven solutions. He joined DataFlux in 1999 and has helped the company design, implement and maintain enterprise-level solutions for companies worldwide. Gavin has a degree in computer science from North Carolina State University. Session:
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Barbara Deemer is the Chief Data Steward at Sallie Mae. In that role she leads the Data Governance Council which is comprised of representatives from all Lines of Business. Barbara has 27 years of experience in the Accounting, Finance and Servicing areas of Sallie Mae. She was the Controller of the Company from 2000 to 2003 until she took an extended leave of absence. She returned to Sallie Mae in 2005 to work on data improvement projects and is now in her current role focusing on Data Governance and Data Quality. Barbara graduated in 1982 from George Washington University with a BBA in Accounting. Session:
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Dan Defend earned his Masters in Computer Science from University of Illinois. He has experience at Motorola as an Engineering Manager first in Unix OS and then in embedded cell phone software where he also led analysis and data-driven improvement using Digital Six Sigma methodology. He is currently leading the Data Quality program at Yahoo! where significant improvements are underway involving centralized monitoring and data cleansing across Yahoo!’s audience data pipeline and relying heavily on organizational leverage and distributed ownership and accountability. Session: |
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Martha Dember is a recognized leader in the field of Master Data Management, Data Governance and Regulatory Compliance for the management and reporting of data. She has more than 20 years experience in information technology and consulting services in the retail, distribution, import and export, insurance, banking, utilities, healthcare, and entertainment and hospitality industries. Ms. Dember specializes in the area of business intelligence (BI) and data management having helped many organizations develop their BI strategies, formulate their Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and develop executive dashboards, scorecards and predictive analysis models to mention just a few of the accomplishments. She evaluates organizations risks and success factors for implementing BI, and helps clients develop their roadmaps for achieving their longer term, strategic BI goals. She has worked for more than 18 years with top executives to use business information to improve business operations and results. Ms. Dember has an MBA with a specialization in the Management of Information Technology, is a Certified Business Intelligence Practitioner (CBIP) and is a frequent lecturer at industry and user group conferences, world wide. Session: |
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Karen Dickinson began her career at Capital One as an MIS Analyst for the Collections & Recoveries Data Warehouse. She was one of the first Data Stewards at Capital One. The first data steward team at Capital One was created based on her role within Collections & Recoveries. She then moved to the Corporate Real Estate (CRE) department supporting their new data warehouse. She expanded their data management program in CRE where she was the business lead/owner in all IT analytical and BI projects. She identified data management gaps within the department and established/ implemented their Information Data Reporting standards. During this time she also consulted with other departments who were forming their own Data Stewardship processes/programs as well as the Enterprise Data Management department assisting in consolidating Capital One's Information Data Management policy. Later she moved to the Bank as a Senior MIS Analyst Manager to assist in establishing the Bank Data Stewardship team. She has set up a team in a rapidly growing area and established policies and procedures within the Bank to assure consistent data management aligning with Card and the Enterprise. Bank Data Stewardship continues to grow as Capital One consolidates data from various sources within the legacy bank environments. This data is integrated into a more streamlined portfolio of sources and a single data warehouse for the Bank. Session:
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Dr. Walid El Abed 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 recognized 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 Dr. Walid is a visionary and thought leader in the Data Excellence and Business Excellence practices for global organizations. He is a worldwide-recognized expert in the domains of Data Governance, Data quality, Data conversion, Meta data and master data management. Session:
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Larry P. English, president and principal of INFORMATION IMPACT International is one of the most well known authorities in Information Management and Information Quality Improvement. He has provided consulting and education in approximately 40 countries on five continents. Mr. English was featured as one of the “21 Voices for the 21st Century” in the American Society for Quality’s Journal "Quality Progress" in its January, 2000 issue. DAMA awarded him the “Individual Achievement Award” for his contributions to the field of information resource management in 1998. He was awarded the Heartbeat of America’s “Keeping America Strong” award in December, 2008 honoring his work helping his clients to implement effective Information Quality processes that enable them to eliminate the high costs of business process failure caused by missing, inaccurate, duplicate or untimely information. Mr. English’s widely acclaimed book, "Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality," has been translated into Japanese by the first information services organization to win the Deming Prize for Quality. His newest book, "Information Quality Applied: Best Practices for Improving Business Information, Processes and Systems" is now available. Session: |
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David Gaines joined The Toro Company in 2006 after spending 7 years in CRM strategy consulting. His primary area of expertise is multichannel information architecture strategies that engage customers and drive revenue. David has also worked on projects involving contact centers, sales and marketing automation, e-business, enterprise content management and customer analytics. At Toro, David focuses on enterprise data management; his goal is to create a “data as a service” (DaaS) environment that will deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. He has been a longtime evangelist for platform-based approaches to data management and believes that mastering data is key to reducing costs and increasing agility across the enterprise. David has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Computer Science from Charleston Southern University. Session:
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Pat Garvey has been with EPA since 1984. He has worked in the Hazardous Waste Program, the Agency’s Comptroller Office, the Denver Regional Office and now is with the Office of Environmental Information in Washington DC. He has spoken at numerous national and regional conferences on a variety of topics on technology, environmental protection and public empowerment. Pat Garvey graduated with a Masters degree from the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs at U.T. Austin in 1975. His undergraduate work is from Florida State University in Social Work. Session:
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Sandesh Gawande is CTO at Abyss Group Inc, www.AbyssGroupInc.com, a Data Integration Products & Services firm. The core activities include Data Integration consulting, Data Architecture Design Services, ETL Strategy & Auditing and reconciliation software (iCE Audit™) Implementation www.IntegritycheckEngine.com Sandesh is an expert in ETL strategy and blogs at www.ETLGuru.com .He has developed Data Integration & ETL consulting & training practice under ETL Interface Architecture®. Currently he is authoring ETL Book which will be a complete Bible for ETL development. He is actively implementing, advising or training various financial firms on various Data Integration projects. Session:
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Altug Gurer is an accomplished business professional with over 25 years experience in the areas of Data Quality, Project and Program Management, IT, Sales, Marketing and Journalism. He received various industry awards in journalism and owned an Export Management Company for 7 years. His in-depth field expertise in IT and Business has successfully led to noteworthy process improvements and efficiency in various areas within his organization. He joined Avaya’s Data Quality Center of Excellence 3 years ago as Program Manager to work with a team of industry experts; under the formal program which is founded on a value-driven approach that prioritizes efforts based on business benefits, optimizing Avaya’s data quality investment, maximizing business impact, and ultimately generating margin rich revenues. By positioning Data Quality as an integral component of business functions and initiatives has been resulted millions in realized profits in last 39 months with a return on investment >2,400%. Session: |
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Gordon
Hamilton, a
seasoned professional considers himself, somewhat
facetiously, a "recovering data analyst". Session: |
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Cynthia Hartman is a 38-year veteran of The Hartford. Most of that time has been spent as a business data management professional, with time served in a variety of analytical positions in The Hartford’s statistical data reporting area, the field coding liaison area, and Personal Lines Underwriting. About 7-8 years ago, Ms. Hartman spent a considerable portion of her time working on, understanding, and improving her company’s process of reconciling statistically reported data to their annual statement. The knowledge of the data that she gained on that effort was a perfect lead-in to her assignment to the Enterprise Strategic Data Services Unit (ESDS) four years ago. Ms. Hartman’s work in ESDS has included development of The Hartford’s P&C Enterprise Data Standards, their Data Governance and Stewardship foundational process, and especially their Data Quality Program. She currently holds the position of Senior Business Consultant in ESDS and serves as the business program manager of their data profiling tool and development of their data quality program. Sessions: |
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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 he grew to a 300-person 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
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Dan Holle has worked in Information Management for over 20 years in various industries. He has worked in the following industries: Defense, Legal, Telecommunications, Insurance, State Government, Healthcare, and currently works for Pfizer in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Data Governance and Data Management are key areas where Dan's experience is relevant. Session: |
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Kathy
Hunter
has over twenty years information systems experience and, twelve years ago
attended training in Information Quality Improvements. Soon after, she
instituted an Enterprise Information Quality Division at T-Mobile (previously
One2One). In their first three months they managed to recover £10 million in
lost annual earnings, thus providing a quick 800% return on investment against
the team’s two year budget and that was only the beginning. Session: |
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Geoffrey Kemmish has spent 25 years working on Wall Street in a variety of systems and data roles. As Chief Data Officer of Acadian Asset Management, he is responsible for the quality and governance of all externally-generated data used in both operational activities and in Acadian's proprietary 'quantamental' investment process. Session:
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Michele Koch runs the Data Governance Program for Sallie Mae. She has more than 27 years of experience in structured analysis and design techniques for both process and data modeling. Michele spent the first ten years of her career as a consultant providing systems analysis and design leadership using CASE tools to Fortune 500 companies. Her last 17 years have been spent within data administration at Sallie Mae. Currently, she is the Director of the Data Governance Office at Sallie Mae and manages the enterprise data management team. Session:
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John Ladley is a Business Technology Thought Leader with 30 years experience in planning, project management, improving IT organizations and successful implementation of information systems. John Ladley is a widely-known data warehouse pioneer and a recognized authority in the use and implementation of business intelligence and Enterprise Information Management. He is widely published and frequently writes and speaks on a variety of technology and enterprise information management topics. He President of IMCue Solutions, a firm focused on improving client value through managing information. He is also the occasional editor of the Data strategy Journal, a web-based publication on all topics related to data and EIM. His Information Management experience is balanced between strategic technology planning, project management and practical application of technology to business problems. Sessions:
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Michael Lombard is a Vice President at Global Data Competency. He specializes in helping companies to design and develop data governance and data management programs, as well as helping them better align business and IT. Session:
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David Loshin is the President of Knowledge Integrity, Inc,
(www.knowledge-integrity.com), a consulting company focusing on customized
information management solutions including information quality consulting and
training, business intelligence, metadata, and data standards management. David
is among Knowledge Integrity’s recognized experts in information management,
contributing to Intelligent Enterprise, DM Review, and The Data Administration
Newsletter (www.tdan.com) and is a channel expert for the Business Intelligence
network (www.b-eye-network.com). Sessions:
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Laura
Madison is a Senior
Vice President and director of the newly formed Data Management Program at Rabo
Support Services, Inc. (a subsidiary of Rabobank International) in Jersey City, NJ. She has spent the last year researching Data Management in the wider
world, and educating her colleagues about the importance and value of including
Data Management as a strategic function. Prior to joining Rabobank, Laura led a consulting group specializing in process improvement for wholesale international banking operations. Session:
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Peter Mandel is a Product Line Manager for IBM Optim Data Management with a focus on Data Governance. Mr. Mandel joined IBM at the Silicon Valley Laboratory where he held a wide variety of development and technical strategy roles related to IBM's database and data management portfolio of products. He has launched development initiatives across a broad range of data management technologies including content management systems, video servers, spatial database, and media asset management systems. Most recently he led new initiatives in enterprise search and text analytics in the IBM Research Division and IBM Software Group. He has a degree in Economics from Cornell University. Session:
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Christopher McBride is currently leader/coordinator of the cross-functional NNI Data Governance Board which includes representatives from Diabetes and BioPharm organizations. He is responsible for customer, organization, product, employee and territory master data stewardship, including input into match-merge rules and data quality reporting. Mr. McBride moved into current role after working in BioPharm Business Analysis where position included sales incentive compensation plan creation and administration, field activity reporting, field call planning creation/administration, and CRM system training and enhancements. His prior experience includes time in help desk software sales engineering, IT business analysis and pharma CRM application development and roll-out. Session:
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Scott McCurdy has over 20 year of experience in a variety of technical and business roles within the software industry. He joined ASG in 2002 responsible for product management of metadata management solutions and is currently the SVP of Business Solutions and Strategy. 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 data
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Brian McVay Senior Solutions Engineer, DataFlux Corporation Brian came to DataFlux in early 2006 with over 10 years in the data quality industry assisting Fortune 1000 companies with enterprise data quality projects. Brian works with DataFlux customers to help them understand the technology and how it can fit within their architecture, providing customers with technical solution development and integration, as well as hands-on training. Brian graduated from Northeastern University with a marketing/MIS degree. Session:
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Brett Medalen has over 10 years of experience in data related fields including data modeling, data quality, metadata exchange and data integration technologies, including ETL and change data capture. The first 5 years of his career he spent as a consultant implementing integration systems for Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a Data Architect of Data Administration at Sallie Mae. He is part of the leadership team to design and implement the enterprise data quality program at Sallie Mae. Brett received his Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Session: |
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Eric Michellod is a governance manager at Groupe Mutuel Assurance,
one of the largest insurance company in Switzerland. He has 20 years experience
in managing business computer projects specialized in insurance domain.
Confirmed data architect and expert in data modeling and database management. Session:
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As leader of the iJET Enterprise Data Operations team, Richard Murnane and his team are responsible for the collection, processing, monitoring and quality of client and iJET production data. Rich has 15 years experience designing, building and supporting database systems, is a member of the DAMA (National Capitol Region Chapter). Rich is also a member of the iJET professional services team that provides travel industry and data architecture services for Corporate and Federal Government clients. Session:
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Dan Myers currently manages Enterprise Business Intelligence governance initiatives for Farmers Insurance. At Farmers he has also managed data and functional B.I. testing. Dan conducted an extensive metadata software review and is completing a Proof of Concept for an Enterprise Metadata Repository. He authored the Farmers' governance policy for metadata management. Dan has worked as an independent Oracle Certified Professional consultant in both front and back-end development capacities on a variety of projects. Dan’s fluency in Japanese enabled him to work in both the public and private sector in Japan. Dan received his MBA from the U.S.C. Marshall School of Business, June, 2009. 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. Sessions: |
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Tom Orrick is the newest member of Hallmark Cards' data governance team, joining the group in March. For the previous 13 years Tom managed Hallmark's video and meeting production teams. He has 25 years experience managing creative and technical organizations and he is an experienced project manager on communication and technology based projects. Session:
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James Orr is the Director of Enterprise Data Strategy for Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks LLC. Mr. Orr has been with Harte-Hanks for more than two years and has close to 20 years of proven, results-oriented data governance selling and consulting experience. He consults with customers, helping them establish and execute on their enterprise-wide data governance and data quality strategies. Mr. Orr has spoken at major data quality and IT industry shows including the annual TDWI Data Goverance Conference. Session:
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Salvatore Passariello is a Director in PwC's Advisory practice with over 20 years of professional experience focusing on helping clients making improvements and resource allocations across various architecture and information management programs. He has extensive experience in a lead role across the technology project lifecycle, including enterprise data management, data warehouse/data mart strategy, design and implementation, data modeling, logical and physical database design, data/database administration, business intelligence strategy, design and implementation, program management, and data governance. Sal is a highly energetic, organized, and effective communicator who draws upon a broad base of experience and knowledge to provide clients with creative solutions to complex problems. Session:
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Elizabeth Pierce is an Associate Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). She joined the faculty in Fall 2006 as part of UALR’s efforts to launch the first Master of Science in Information Quality. Prior to coming to UALR, Dr. Pierce taught for 11 years at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in Statistics & Management Science from the University of Michigan, an MS in Computer Science from Iona College, and BS degrees in Quantitative Business Analysis and Mathematics from Penn State. Session: |
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David Plotkin is the Manager of Data Quality for the AAA of Northern Ca, Nevada, and Utah. He has been working with data modeling, metadata and data quality for over 15 years. He has built multiple metadata repositories and is directly responsible for running the data quality effort and organization and chairing the Data Governance committee (including data stewardship) at AAA of Northern Ca, Nevada, and Utah. He serves as a subject matter expert on many topics around metadata and data quality. Session:
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Ian Rowlands is ASG's Senior Director of Product Management. He heads product management for Metadata and Application Management and is also tasked with providing input across ASG's entire portfolio. Ian has also served as Vice President of ASG's repository development organization. Prior to joining ASG, Ian served as Director of Indirect Channels for Viasoft, a leading Enterprise Application Management vendor that was later acquired by ASG where he was responsible for relationships with Viasoft's distributor partners outside North America. He has worked extensively in metadata management and IT systems and financial management, and presented at conferences world-wide, including DAMA and CMG. Session:
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Arona Primalani brings over 15 years of experience in Services, Sales and Product Marketing for enterprise document and workflow management, collaboration, localization, content management and search, Business Intelligence platforms, Rich Internet Application, and data mining and warehousing technologies. She has brought these solutions to companies in the financial, manufacturing, telecommunications, health care, life sciences and high technology clients such as Salesforce, AT&T, UGH, General Electric and Charles Schwab. Prior to Earley & Associates, Arona was the lead Principal Consultant for JustSystems (a leading technology provider of XML technologies) and some of the early deals with clients and partners, including IBM and BearingPoint. Prior to that, Arona was the key Sales Engineer for with Enkata Technologies (a successful provider of Business Performance Analytics and Text Classification Analytics) where she built and deployed BI solutions with custom taxonomies and classification models for telecommunications, health care and financial companies. Arona holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from The American University in Washington, DC, and is a certified Oracle Database Administrator. She has also earned a Sales Advantage certificate from Dale Carnegie. Session:
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Pablo Riboldi has been an Instructional Designer, Developer, Business Analyst, and for the last three years 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 on Euclidean Geometry. He is a very animated presenter with a knack for showing how to apply complex concepts in practical ways. Session:
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Jiro Sakamoto has a diverse business background focused in the consumer package goods industry. He served in many senior leadership roles while creating bottom line results oriented to increase shareholder value in a large, global, multi-cultural, team setting. Jiro has demonstrated ability to leverage complex, information technology systems using innovative methods to improve and enhance business processes in a dynamic and changing business environment. Extensive global experience includes leading key data management areas of worldwide projects and expatriate assignments in Switzerland and France. Being in high volume, low margin businesses, Jiro brings in depth understanding and execution expectations in linking business requirements in operational savings initiatives. Session:
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Javier Salido has 12 years field experience working with large enterprise and government customers, first as a consultant and later as a practice manager for Microsoft Consulting Services in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. A former researcher at the Network Security Laboratory in the University of Washington, Mr. Salido holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration from the Foster School of Business, both from the University of Washington. He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), and currently works with Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group, where he is responsible for the Data Governance initiative Session:
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As a senior member of the iJET Enterprise Data Operations team, Falguni Sanghani oversees all tasks data related which include custom report building, designing a customer reporting portal and profiling, monitoring and cleansing data. Falguni has 14 years experience in various roles in the data industry including a Data Manager position at the Center for Disease Control. In the past 12 months, Falguni has become the iJET expert in all things DataFlux and has led iJET through the changes required to embrace the cultural change of focusing on Data Quality. Session:
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David Schlesinger, a
frequent speaker on Data Security Architecture and a member of the Data
Management Association (DAMA), also has a CISSP Security certification and is
Vice president of the Phoenix Chapter of the Information Systems Security
Association (ISSA) which gives him a unique view of Enterprise Data Compliance Session: |
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Jeff Schmitt is currently Director of Information Architecture and Data Quality Operations at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. He leads a team of information architects, data analysts and modelers, and provides leadership to a variety of enterprise data management initiatives. Jeff came to his current role via the circuitous route of graduate studies in anthropology, which serves him well in his current capacity. is currently Director of Information Architecture and Data Quality Operations at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. He leads a team of information architects, data analysts and modelers, and provides leadership to a variety of enterprise data management initiatives. Jeff came to his current role via the circuitous route of graduate studies in anthropology, which serves him well in his current capacity. Session:
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Michael Scofield is an independent consultant in data management, data quality, and semantic data integration. He also holds an adjunct faculty position at Loma Linda University in the Department of Health Information Management. He is the recipient of the 2008 DAMA International Community Award presented in San Diego, March, 2008. He was also a 2007 nominee for the DAMA (Data Mgmt. Assn.) Award for Professional Achievement. Mr. Scofield is a popular speaker in topics of data management, data quality, data warehouse design, as well as satellite imagery interpretation and emergency communications. His career has included education and private industry in areas of data quality, decision-support systems, data warehousing, and data management. His articles appear in DM Review, the B-Eye Newsletter, InformationWeek magazine, the IBI Systems Journal, and other professional journals. He has spoken to over 150 professional audiences for organizations such as Data Management Assn chapters (16), European Metadata Conferences (4), information quality conferences (3), The Data Warehousing Institute (6), Oracle User Groups (9), Institute of Internal Auditors, Assn. of Government Accountants, Quality Assurance Association chapters, Assn. for Computing Machinery and other professional and civic audiences. He has humor published in the L.A. Times and other journals. Session:
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Laura Sebastian-Coleman manages the Data Quality team for clinical analytic applications at Ingenix, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, where she has worked since 2003. During that time, she has implemented the data warehouse's Data Quality Program, which includes per load and quarterly reporting on data quality metrics. In early 2006, she and her team launched the Data Quality Community. In 2007, she led a redesign of Galaxy’s intranet and training programs. In 2008 she began leading a Metrics Initiative. Before joining Ingenix, she spent eight years in internal communications and information technology roles in the commercial insurance industry. She holds a Certificate in Information Quality from MIT, a B.A. in English and History from Franklin & Marshall College, and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester (NY). Sessions:
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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 2009,
TDAN.com celebrated its 12th anniversary and attracts close to 125K visitors
every month. In 2009, KIK Consulting celebrated its 7th anniversary and focuses
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Ravi Shankar is senior director of MDM Product Marketing at Informatica. Ravi is responsible for product and technical marketing activities for master data management (MDM) as part of the Data Quality business unit at Informatica. Ravi joined Informatica following the Siperian acquisition, where he ran product marketing. He helped position the company as a proven leader in multidomain MDM. With over 20 years of leadership experience, Ravi has directed product marketing, product management, and business development efforts at enterprise software leaders such as Oracle. Ravi holds a BS (Honors) and an MS in Computer Science, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Ravi is a published author and a frequent speaker on MDM and data governance. Session:
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Len Silverston is a best-selling author, consultant, and speaker with over 25 years of experience helping organizations integrate their information, systems, and people. Mr. Silverston is a thought leader in the fields of data modeling, data management and in the human dynamics of integrating information. He has been a pioneer in the field, most notably by developing an extensive library of "Universal Data Models", or in other words, re-usable models, which he has used and licensed to help a great deal of organizations to develop data models in much less time with much greater quality. He is the author of The Data Model Resource Book series (Volumes 1, 2, and 3), which describe hundreds of reusable, holistic data models. The volume 1 book was rated #12 on the Computer Literacy Best Seller List and volumes 1 and 2 have been translated into Chinese. In 2009, he co-authored and published his latest work, “The Data Model Resource Book, Volume 3, Universal Patterns for Data Modeling”. Mr. Silverston has published many articles and has been a keynote speaker all around the world at many international conferences talking on subject ranging from re-usable models for integration, to politics, power, and culture in information management. He is the winner of the DAMA (Data Administration Management Association) International Professional Achievement Award for 2004 and the DAMA International Community Award for 2006. He received the highest speaker rating in the DAMA International 2009 conference for his talk on “What to Do When Data Professionals Disagree”. Mr. Silverston's company, Universal Data Models, provides consulting, training, publications, and software to enable integration of information, systems, and people via “Universal” solutions. Session: |
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Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D. is a highly acclaimed author and speaker in the fields of data stewardship and governance, data warehousing, data modeling, project management, IS strategic planning and metadata management. She holds a doctorate in Management Information Systems, is a certified data management professional (CDMP) and project management professional (PM). Anne Marie has taught at LaSalle University’s and Rowan University’s Management Information Systems departments. Anne Marie serves on the board of directors of DAMA International and is on the faculty of Northcentral University. She is Editor-in-Chief of Real World Decision Support, and a columnist for the EIM Insight journal. Anne Marie is the Director of Enterprise Information Management at 21st Century Insurance, a Farmers’ Insurance company Sessions:
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Sreedhar Srikant is an Enterprise Data Architect at Lexmark working on the Data Governance Program. Prior to joining Lexmark, he has been part of several data management initiatives at several fortune 500 companies. Session:
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Tatiana Stebakova spent first 15 years of her career as Medical doctor (general surgeon) in Russia, Moscow. Became involved in the design and implementation of the National Public Health Initiatives (childhood immunisation and cancer screening) and primary care services integration in New Zealand. This work led to more involvement into information system's design and integration. Worked as a data quality manager for the New Zealand Ministry of Health, particularly looking after quality of the National Healthcare Identification (NHI) Database. In 2005 was invited to Australia to lead the design of the Healthcare Identifier (HI) project which will see the allocation of identifiers to every healthcare individual, healthcare provider individual and Healthcare Provider Organisation. Designed data quality Governance into the HI service system's architecture and operational business processes. Currently work on the implementation of the data quality Governance for the HI community. Session: |
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Jay Talaviya manages data management functions at Kelley Blue Book driving the strategy in the area of Information Quality and Data Management. His main domains are Systems Data Analysis and implementation, metrics definitions, Frameworks, KPIs definition, design and new product development. He has worked both in India and US on various technology projects, having more than 10 years of service oriented experience in initiatives related to business data and application excellence, product development, frameworks design. His specialization is in building strategy for data analysis, data quality, business intelligence, data architecture and new product development type of initiatives. He has Bachelors in Engineering from India with honors, Masters in Computer Science from California State University and Executive MBA from University of California, Irvine. Session: |
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Sanjeev Taran is a Director at PwC in the Information Management Advisory Practice. He is an accomplished database professional with over 22 years consulting experience focusing on Data Warehousing, BI, Data Quality, Web Content Management, eDiscovery and Project Management He has led several large scale technology implementations at Fortune 500 companies including enterprise information architecture strategy and design, enterprise search, data warehouse/data mart design, database administration, data modeling, and data integration utilizing ETL, EAI & SOA technologies. Session:
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Dimpsy Teckchandani is an experienced manager in PwC’s Advisory practice focusing on technology and enterprise decision data management (EDM) and Business Intelligence (BI) services. She has over 8 years of experience primarily in the areas of data governance, master data management, business intelligence and enterprise wide reporting, data warehousing, data quality and other data related transformational services. Having worked on multiple client bases across industries during her professional career, Dimpsy has developed both tactical and strategic understanding of business and technical processes successfully leveraging factual analytical techniques to streamline enterprise-wide reporting environment. She has single handedly lead a number of engagements in this area and most recently completed the design and implementation of a data management strategy and a data governance program for a large mortgage services client in addition to a master data management program for another financial transaction processing client. While the former primarily included creation of a data governance organization and design of policies, procedures, standards and metrics for sustaining data quality reflected in management reports, the latter focused on the entire master data management program that included these very activities as success criteria. Dimpsy specializes in working with management to drive information transformation through a technology agnostic sustainable approach. Additionally, she has conducted a number of fit-gap analysis and feasibility studies, developed business cases and conducted tool evaluations for large organizations as part of her projects. Session:
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Gwen
Thomas is Founder
and President of The Data Governance Institute, which provides consulting,
executive mentoring, training, program development, and information services,
including the web’s largest Data Governance resource, at www.DataGovernance.com
and the Data Governance & Stewardship Community of Practice.. Sessions:
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Aparna Vani earned her Masters in ECE from University of Houston. She worked as Hardware Design engineer at Compaq and development lead at TVGuide. She has versatile experience as test designer and architecture at Motorola. Currently, she is working as Chief DQ Architect at Yahoo, responsible for data quality strategy and design, working on global organization wide projects like robot filtering and bcookie churn. Session: |
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Jim Viveralli is a Data Architect responsible for implementing Data Governance at Erie Insurance. Prior to this position he supervised the external statistical reporting area at the ERIE. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University. Jim is the past Chairman of the Technical Statistical Advisory Committee (TSAC) with the Independent Statistical Service, Inc. He serves on the Insurance Data Management Association (IDMA) Board of Directors and the Meta-Data Professional Organization (MPO) Board of Directors. He has participated in several working groups with ACORD and served on the Editorial Board for the DAMA DMBOK. Jim has over twenty-six years experience working in the trenches of data management from both a business and an IT perspective. Sessions:
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Christian
Walenta has held a
variety of professional and management positions with IBM in Germany, UK and the USA. His professional experience of more than 20 years includes information
management, data governance, management of supply chain systems, business
development and project management. Christian serves as the President on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ) Session:
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Mike Wheeler, Director of Data Governance Solutions with Kalido, brings more than 20 years of experience in data management, business intelligence and business process management. Mike’s understanding of how people, process and technology use data to drive business value has worked with many world class customers to improve business performance through better business decision making, improved process execution, and a deeper understanding and avoidance of risk to the business. Session:
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With more than 10 years IT experience, Alan White is Chief Architect for a Global Master Data Management initiative at The Nielsen Company. Alan interfaces with users, sponsors and stakeholders to determine and prioritize their evolving needs by taking a holistic view of problems in order to implement sound solutions. Tasked to evaluate leading technology providers for enabling enterprise application integration, data quality management, and business intelligence, Alan effectively leads vendors and colleagues to prove concepts and technology, and to design business processes with supporting systems that provides the expected benefit, within scope and can be accomplished with acceptable risks. Session:
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C. Lwanga Yonke works as Information Quality Process Manager with Aera Energy LLC. He currently leads the company's highly successful information quality process. His previous positions include Manager of BI, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, and various petroleum engineering and operations assignments. An ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Lwanga earned an MBA from California State University and holds a BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Lwanga is a founding member of IAIDQ and currently serves as an Advisor to the IAIDQ Board and as a board member for several other non-profit organizations. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), a senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ ), and the recipient of the 2008 SPE Western North America Regional Management and Information Award. Session: |
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Greg Zegarowski is President of Financial Leadership Corporation, whose mission is building sustainable success® from start-up to Fortune 100. Greg has been an invited speaker at numerous professional events such as Enterprise Data World, Electronic Patient Record Conference and webinars with the SEC on Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Greg was a CPA with Deloitte and an audit partner with a regional CPA firm. Following several years as the CFO of an international medical equipment company he founded Financial Leadership Corporation and has over fifteen years experience consulting in financial services and other industries. He recently served as lead consultant to a national bank on a multi-year data governance initiative. Greg has an educational background in behavioral science (B.S.), business (MBA), and ethics (M.A.) and received a Certificate in Environmental and Social Risk Analysis for Financial Institutions from the United Nations Environment Program (Switzerland). Sessions:
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