Boulder BI Brain Trust

Boulder BI Brain Trust Founder

Claudia Imhoff	Claudia Imhoff: President and Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust and Intelligent Solutions, Inc. A thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy. Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D. is a popular and dynamic speaker and internationally recognized expert on analytical CRM, business intelligence, and the infrastructure to support these initiatives - the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five highly-regarded and popular books on these subjects and writes monthly columns (totaling more than 100) for technical and business magazines. She has an expert channel, a monthly newsletter, and a popular blog on the BeyeNETWORK.com. She has served on the Board of Advisors for DAMA International and was chosen by the DAMA organizations to receive the 1999 and 2005 Individual Achievement Awards. She is an advisor and a faculty member for The Data Warehousing Institute and was named a Fellow to the Institute in 2006. She serves as an advisor for several technology and commercial companies.
Boulder BI Brain Trust Members
Carla Agüero	Carla Agüero is Vice-President and Business Consultant of NEXTER in Asunción, Paraguay. Carla has been involved in business intelligence and data warehousing since 2003, she worked in the Telecommunication and Financial industry in Paraguay before joining Nexter in 2006 where she has successfully implemented data warehouses and BI solutions for a variety of organizations. In addition, she provides training to companies interested in implementing the culture of making decisions based on information to improve profit and performance.
Augusto Aldeghi	Augusto Aldeghi is a datwarehouse analyst at a large online retailer, who spent most of his career in consultancy, around Business Intelligence and Datawarehousing. Having implemented BI and budgeting systems in companies of any size for the last 15 years, he's a strong advocate of putting "business" back in BI. He graduated in Aerospace Engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan.
Bence Arató	Bence Arató, Managing Director of BI Consulting Hungary. He has been in the BI industry since 1995 as an analyst, architect and adviser. He writes about analytics on the BI.Hu website since 1998 and organizes several DW&BI conferences in Budapest.
Stewart Bond	Stewart Bond, Senior Consulting Analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, covers Application, Data and Process Integration, and Business Intelligence. Stewart has nearly 25 years of global I.T. experience in diverse projects across multiple industries within challenging environments. Prior to joining Info-Tech, Stewart was the V.P. of Technology for a company specializing in delivering Business-To-Business and Enterprise Integration services to the U.S. healthcare industry. The company was grown out of IBM, where Stewart was a senior certified IT architect in their Business Consulting Enterprise Integration Practice. Stewart's experience also includes providing key technical leadership on enterprise integration and business transformation strategy engagements; and enterprise integration solution delivery projects to customers across multiple industries. Stewart has an extensive background in helping customers to understand their integration and information goals and objectives through careful analysis of business, technical and operational requirements and strategies. He has also worked at the solution and implementation level helping his customers to implement effective solutions that align with their organization's strategic initiatives.
Marcus Borba	Marcus Borba, Founder of Borba Consulting, a Brazilian advisory services company specializes in designing, integrating, and implementing strategic performance management, business intelligence and analytics solutions. Marcus is a seasoned professional with over 27 years of in-depth information technology experience and more than 12 years of extensive experience in the business intelligence market, always with the focus on providing high value-added solutions for businesses.
Michael Brooks	Michael Brooks: Specialist Leader of Deloitte Consulting LLP's Information Management practice for healthcare providers and related organizations. He has worked with a wide variety of healthcare organizations including national health care networks, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and physician groups. Michael has over 25 years' experience in business intelligence/analytics strategy, healthcare information technology planning, affiliated physician technology strategy, healthcare information exchange, technology selection, and other areas.
Russell Callahan	Russell Callahan, is anindependent consultant at 1st Trend. Russell is mentor and architect who has a deep background for the deployment of business dimensional analysis systems. The origin of his experience was the IBM and Metaphor Corporation partnership of 1988 for which he was a charter member of the IBM business intelligence practice for the Metaphor products. Since that time, Russell has worked on over 100 BI engagements, using his knowledge of dimensional analysis to assist business leaders to meet diverse business objectives.
Gary Cokins	Gary Cokins, Founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC. Gary is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, consultant, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) methods and systems. His degrees are Cornell University (industrial engineering and operations research; 1971) and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (MBA; 1974). Prior to founding his firm in 2012 he was with a Fortune 100 corporation, and a consultant with Deloitte, KPMG, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and SAS. He is on committees and task forces with many global accounting and analytics institutes. He is a prolific blogger and article writer and has authored six business books. His Business Predictive Analytics book is due July, 2013.
Ken Collier	Ken Collier was one of the first to start combining agile methods with data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics to create the Agile Analytics style. With an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science engineering, Ken is formally trained in software engineering, data management, and machine learning. He enjoys challenging problems in the areas of systems architecture and design, systems/software development lifecycles, project leadership, data warehousing, business intelligence, and advanced analytics. He directed the data warehousing and business intelligence solutions group for a major consulting firm, and written extensively about Agile Data Warehousing and BI, including his book entitled, Agile Analytics: A Value-driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
Ted Cuzzillo	Ted Cuzzillo is an industry analyst and journalist with more than 20 years' experience explaining, analyzing, and researching how people use technology. To paraphrase Lance Armstrong, who says "It's not about the bike," Ted says, "It's not about the computer." His current research focuses on business analysts, including the tools they use, the roles they play, and their careers. He can be reached at Tbbb@datadoodle.com.
Dr. Barry Devlin	Dr. Barry Devlin: Founder and Principal of 9sight Consulting. Barry is among the foremost authorities on business insight and one of the founders of data warehousing. He is a widely respected consultant, lecturer and author of the seminal book, Data Warehouse–from Architecture to Implementation. Barry's current interest extends to a fully integrated business, covering informational, operational and collaborative environments to offer a holistic experience of the business through IT. He specializes in the human, organizational and IT implications and design of deep business insight solutions.
Steve Dine	Steve Dine: President and Founder of Datasource Consulting, LLC. Steve has more than 10 years of hands-on experience delivering and managing successful, highly scalable and maintainable data integration and business intelligence solutions. He also assists companies with BI tool assessments and teaches a course on the topic of Lean BI for The Data Warehouse Institute. He is the former director of global data warehousing for a major durable medical equipment manufacturer and former BI practice director for an established Denver based consulting company. Steve earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont and a MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Joseph A. di Paolantonio	Joseph A. di Paolantonio: Independent Consultant. Joseph plays with data by using Bayesian statistics, Agile implementations, and Open Source tools. He has headed both Fortune 100 professional services organizations and boutique consultancies. He is passionate about creating and applying analytical techniques and management methodologies to solving business, engineering and scientific problems. His current focus is Energy Management and the Internet of Things. With over 30 years of experience, Joseph works with his customers in using their data to solve real problems. He has created unique Predictive algorithms, such as BayLife, which used Bayesian statistics to formulate an inspection schedule for the Space Shuttle Main Engine components. He is the co-creator of the 8D BI Implementation Method, which was declared Agile in 2002 by a Practitioner, and is a signatory of the Agile Manifesto. Joseph blogs for The TeleInterActive Press.
Clarise Doval Santos	Clarise Z. Doval Santos, PMP: Independent Consultant. Clarise has experience as a strategic consultant, program manager, technical lead and practitioner in all areas of data management and analytics She has headed data warehousing, BI and Analytics practices in both Fortune 100 organizations and boutique consultancies. She is passionate about using data to help those with disabilities and severe medical conditions. Her current focus is Health Care, Mobile, AgileBI and Open Source. She is the co-creator of the 8D BI Implementation Method, which was declared Agile in 2002 by a Practitioner, and is a signatory of the Agile Manifesto. Clarise blogs for The TeleInterActive Press.
Howard Dresner	Howard Dresner: President of Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, an independent advisory firm and a well known authority and author in the areas of business intelligence and performance management. Howard has nearly 30 years of IT industry experience with 21 years in the business intelligence market. He spent 13 years at Gartner, where he was a Research Fellow and Lead Analyst for BI. He also served as Chief Strategy Officer at Hyperion Solutions prior to forming Dresner Advisory Services. Howard is a frequent speaker around the globe and has published two books on the subject - including: Profiles in Performance - Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change (John Wiley & Sons, November 2009) and The Performance Management Revolution: Business Results through Insight and Action (John Wiley & Sons, November 2007).
Mark Dushanko	Mark Dushanko: Founder and Principal of Dumetka, LLC, has over 25 years of experience in applying information technology to solve business problems. Mark has led data warehousing, BI, and information modeling efforts in the pharmaceutical and government sectors, and helped develop balanced scorecard and performance measurement programs. Mark has been actively involved with technology evaluation and selection, IT portfolio management, and the development and management of organizational/technical architectures. He has been a speaker at national and international conferences, and taught in graduate programs at Penn State University. His current interests include the social and cognitive impact of system designs as a path to improve individual and organizational performance. Mark and his family live in the Philadelphia area.
Martijn Evers	Martijn Evers: Founder and Principle of DataMasters(Unseen). Martijn has been designing and developing information systems for over 15 years. The last 10 years mainly in roles like consultant, analyst or architect. His passions lie with modeling and metadata driven system design. His current focus is on temporalisation and system generation. Besides his consulting role he also does research and is connected to the Radboud University of Nijmegen as a Datawarehouse architect. Martijn is currently president of the Dutch Data Vault usergroup, and is responsible for promoting Data Vault in Higher education.
Mike Ferguson	Mike Ferguson: Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited As an independent analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence, data management and enterprise business integration. Based in UK, he has over 28 years of IT experience. Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on BI strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, MDM and data governance. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the BeyeNETWORK in various European countries, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry.
Jorge Garcia	Jorge Garcia: Senior BI and Data Management Analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Jorge has more than 20 years of experience in all phases of application development, database and data warehouse (DWH) design, as well more than 9 years in project management, covering best practices and new technologies in the BI/DWH space. Prior to joining TEC, García was a senior project manager and senior analyst developing BI, DWH, and data integration applications with Oracle, SAP Business Objects, and data integration. He has also worked on projects related to the implementation of BI solutions for the private sector, including the banking and services sectors. He has had the opportunity to work with some of the most important BI and DWH tools on the market.
Dana Gardner	Dana Gardner: president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 20 years. Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: Cloud computing, big data, mobile, SOA, business process management, business intelligence, next-generation data centers, and application lifecycle optimization. His specific interests include social media, cloud interoperability and security, as well as integrated marketing technologies and techniques. Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld. He is a former news editor at IDG News Service, Digital News & Review, and Design News. Follow Dana on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Jonathan Geiger	Jonathan Geiger: Executive Vice President Services, Intelligent Solutions, Inc. With over 35 years of management and hands-on experience in information management, including business intelligence, customer relationship management, quality assurance, data management, data quality, application development and support, productivity management, and training. Jonathan has written over sixty articles on business intelligence, customer relationship management and related topics, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and is a co-author of Data Stores, Data Warehousing and the Zachman Framework: Managing Enterprise Knowledge (McGraw-Hill, 1997), Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) and Mastering Data Warehouse Design: Relational and Dimensional Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
Rick Gilbert	Rick Gilbert: Executive Director and Data Management Consultant of Winter Corporation With more than 35 years of technology and executive management experience, Rick provides independent consulting to clients to plan for successful implementation of their large-scale data management programs. Having extensive first-hand experience and knowledge in large-scale data warehouse development as well as business management perspective, Rick brings an additional business-value dimension to the planning of data warehouse applications. Previously, Rick was Managing Director of Enterprise Decision Support Solutions for FedEx Services and also held executive positions in IT, Marketing, Customer Service, and Operations Management at US West and its predecessor Mountain Bell Telephone Company.
Ben Goewey	Benjamin Goewey: Founder and Principal Consultant for Datamensional, LLC. Mr. Goewey has extensive experience providing positive impacts to companies through the utilization of various business analytics tools and solutions. Ben has been passionate about providing actionable, relevant, and timely information for decision makers to help them make decisions more quickly and effectively. Before founding his own firm in 2009, Ben implemented analytic solutions at IBM and Fidelity Investments. He has implemented and advanced the utilization of open source business analytics and data integration tools at a broad range of customers including enterprise companies such as Cisco, Dell, Huawei, and at various midsize and start-up companies.
Michael Gold	Michael Gold: co-founder and CEO of Farsite, a boutique data science firm that takes big data and builds predictive models that assist companies in making strategic decisions. His firm has deep expertise in the statistical software R and deploys solutions for the retail, healthcare, and casino/gaming industries. Since 2007, Michael has directed Farsite's strategy, built partner relationships, and headed up business development. He shares his expertise at speaking engagements for organizations including TDWI and O'Reilly Strata.
Kent Graziano	Kent Graziano: Owner of Data Warrior LLC, in The Woodlands, Texas. He is a lifetime member and past-president of both the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) and the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG). He is a certified Data Vault Master (DVDM), Oracle ACE Director, and expert data modeler and architect with 30 years of experience, including over 20 years using Oracle, Oracle tools, and doing data warehousing. Kent has written numerous articles and done over 50 presentations (both nationally and internationally). He was the recipient of the 1999 Chris Wooldridge Award (from IOUG) for outstanding contributions to the Oracle user community. In 2003 he was presented with The Doug Faughnan Award for his dedicated service and outstanding contributions to RMOUG. In 2007, he was the recipient of the ODTUG Volunteer Award. He is a co-author of four books including The Data Model Resource Book (1st Edition), Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing an Enterprise Standards Document, and Supercharge Your Data Warehouse. His most recent publication is A Check List for Doing a Data Model Design Review available in Kindle on Amazon. Kent can be contacted at kent.graziano@att.net or followed on twitter @KentGraziano.
Dr. Richard Hackathorn	Dr. Richard Hackathorn: President and Founder of Bolder Technology, Inc. He has written three textbooks entitled Enterprise Database Connectivity, Using the Data Warehouse (with W.H. Inmon) and Web Farming for the Data Warehouse. He earned his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine.
Pauline Hannemann	Pauline Hannemann: An independent management consultant, thought leader and practicing visionary with 25 years of experience in enterprise information management, business intelligence and technology. Ms. Hannemann's strategic and tactical experience spans the entire spectrum of the CIO across many industries. Her blended passion and experience in business consulting, sustainable practices, innovation and Information management enables her to deliver an unparalleled holistic perspective to her clients. Previous roles include, Executive Management Consultant, CIO-Sr. Executive Director of Information Resources, Sr. Principal- IM practice, Associate Partner – BI practice, Master Business Consultant, Sr. Executive Director of Technology, Director of Information Management, and Founder of The Information Engineers.
Kenneth Hansen	Kenneth Hansen: Founder and Managing Consultant for Indicium Domain, an independent consultancy focused on enabling clients to gain competitive advantage by use of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence applications. Kenneth developed a wealth of skills and experience in business management working for the Barclays Group in the UK and in Italy before starting a team for data analytics in the marketing function. That led him to focus his career, straddling business and technical areas, on Data Architecture, Modelling and Analytics where his experience spans Banking, Insurance, Retail and Shipping. Based in Europe; a member of DAMA and speaker at Enterprise Data World 2012; he is preparing a book on enablers for competing on analytics.
Chuck Hooper	Chuck Hooper: Owner of BIAlytics. Chuck does business intelligence consulting, speaking engagements, and training sessions on visual analytics, data warehouse design, and other BI topics, at both the technical and the executive levels. In 2005, PRS became Tableau's first consulting partner. In 2008, Chuck joined Tableau Software to start their Professional Services group. As of April 2011, Chuck is back in the independent consulting world, with his 40+ years of experience, specializing in BI for healthcare and education.
Philip Howard	Philip Howard: Research Director of Bloor Research, where he heads up the Information Management group. Having joined the company in 1992, Philip has recently celebrated (if that's the right word!) his 21st anniversary with Bloor Research. Prior to becoming an industry analyst Philip worked with a number of companies in the IT sector, including NCR, GEC and Raytheon in a variety of capacities ranging from systems analyst and developer through sales to product management and marketing.
Cindi Howson	Cindi Howson: Founder of BI Scorecard a resource for in-depth BI product reviews, based on exclusive hands-on testing. She has been advising clients on BI tool strategies and selections for 15 years. She is the author of Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App and Business Objects XI: The Complete Reference. Prior to founding BI Scorecard, Howson was a manager at Deloitte & Touche and a BI standards leader for a Fortune 500 company. She is a TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) faculty member, writes for Intelligent Enterprise and the BeyeNETWORK. She has an MBA from Rice University.
Ralph Hughes	Ralph Hughes: MA, PMP, CSM serves as Chief Systems Architect for Ceregenics, provider of project leadership consulting for DW/BI programs among the Global 2000 since 1988. Inventor of the Agile Data Warehousing method and the Zuzena automated DW/BI testing engine, he published the first book on agile data warehousing in 2008. He is a faculty member of The Data Warehouse Institute, frequently a keynote speaker at their quarterly world conferences, and one of five judges on their annual Emerging Technologies and Methods practices award panel. He started in DW/BI and data analytics while earning his masters degree from Stanford University in econometric forecasting, and has led data warehousing programs in the aerospace, telecommunications, e-commerce, and pharmaceuticals industries.
Hans Hultgren	Hans Hultgren: President and CEO of Genesee Academy, LLC. Hans is an educator, speaker, and consultant in the data warehousing and business intelligence space. He has been teaching and working in the broader industry for 25 years and currently specializes in enterprise data warehousing, data vault modeling, and emerging trends in BI. His recent consulting roles include DWBI Advisor, EDW Architect, DW data vault model manager, DW designer, and several model and architecture reviewer roles. Current training focus is on using hybrid delivery techniques for both standard and certification classes. Hans is also speaking at international conferences on data vault, EDW, agile DW, and the integration of industry reference models.
Julie Hunt	Julie Hunt: Independent Consultant, Julie Hunt Consulting, a software solutions strategy and market intelligence practice. Julie is an accomplished software industry analyst, providing strategic market and competitive insights for vendors and buyers. Julie has the unique perspective of a software industry "hybrid" -- extensive experience in the technology, business, and customer/people-oriented aspects of creating, marketing and selling software. She has worked in the B2B software industry on the vendor side for more than 20 years in roles from the very technical (developer, SE, solutions consultant) to customer-focused work in strategies for products/solutions, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market initiatives. Her core software technology domains are data integration, data quality, analytics, OSS, SaaS, cloud, WCM/WEM, enterprise portal, social media/marketing, collaboration, and ECM.
John Johansen	John Johansen: Partner of Agile Technologies, a management consulting firm helping companies innovate, execute and realize bottom line performance improvements. As a partner since the firm's founding in 1997 Mr. Johansen leads the firm's business intelligence and analytics engagements and consults for clients on data warehousing, business intelligence and strategic application architectures. His clients include global insurance and financial service companies, travel services organizations and public sector agencies. Mr. Johansen holds a Computer Science degree from Lehigh University.
Raj Joseph	Raj Joseph: Independent Consultant, intellectyx. Founder of Intellectyx. Raj has more than 13 years of leadership experience across both startup and multinational companies, with a focus on Product Strategy, Development & Launch, Integration Strategy & Planning, and Change Enablement across the organization. During his business and technology consulting experience, he has delivered various highly scalable Business, Visual Intelligence solutions and Business Process Platforms across the world. Raj earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from India and his MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver. Currently, he is actively involved in many other local entrepreneurial communities in the state of Colorado.
Krish Krishnan	Krish Krishnan: is the founder president of Sixth Sense Advisors Inc. He is a recognized expert worldwide in the strategy, architecture and implementation of Big Data, Text Analytics and High performance Data Warehousing. He has written a book on "Building the Unstructured Data Warehouse" with Bill Inmon and is soon publishing a new book titled "Data Warehousing in the Age of Big Data". A sought after consultant, he practices what he preaches and vice versa. Krish teaches at TDWI, and speaks at many conferences worldwide. He publishes with the www.beyenetwork.com and other trade publications. Twitter Handle - @datagenius.
John Ladley	John Ladley: President of IMCue Solutions, is a recognized authority in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Information Management (EIM). His information management experience is balanced between strategic technology planning, project management and practical application of technology to business problems. He is author of "Making EIM Work for Business – A Guide to Managing Information as an Asset", and he frequently writes and speaks on a variety of BI and EIM topics. John occasionally edits the Enterprise Data Journal, a web-based publication on all topics related to data and EIM.
Mark Madsen	Mark Madsen: President of Third Nature, is a former CTO and CIO with experience working in both IT and vendors, including a stint at a company used as a Harvard Business School case study. Over the past decade, Mark has received awards for his work in data warehousing, business intelligence and data integration from the American Productivity & Quality Center, the Smithsonian Institute and TDWI.
Wolfgang Martin	Wolfgang Martin: is the founder of Wolfgang Martin Team. He is a leading European authority on business intelligence, performance management, analytics, big data, business process management, information management, information governance, SOA, CRM, SaaS, and PaaS. After 5½ years with META Group as Senior Vice President, International Application Delivery Strategies, Mr. Martin established the Wolfgang Martin Team. He continues to focus on technological innovations that drive business, examining their impact on organization, enterprise culture, business architecture and business processes. Dr. Martin has a doctoral rer.nat. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Bonn ( Germany).
David McGoveran	David McGoveran: Founder and Principal of Alternative Technologies, an independent industry analyst and consulting firm in data management, business intelligence, and business process management founded in 1976 with clients worldwide. David has over 35 years experience with leading edge information technologies, from design, development, and education to market creation, forecast, positioning, and evangelizing. He is well-known as an author and speaker, and for his contributions to database, transaction processing, integration and BPM technologies.
William McKnight	William McKnight: President, McKnight Consulting Group, William is a strategist, lead enterprise information architect and program manager for complex, high-volume full life-cycle implementations worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence. Many of his clients have gone public with their success story. William is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge, has authored more than 150 articles and white papers and given over 150 international keynotes and public seminars. His team’s implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won Best Practices awards. William is a former IT VP of a Fortune company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA.
	Jerry Modes: Partner of Business Ingenuity, is a data systems entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience designing and managing enterprise data warehouse solutions. Jerry has a strong development management background and is the founder of two successful new-concept companies – Teradata and HyperParallel. As a visionary leader who motivates and builds highly effective teams, Jerry has an impressive record of achievements in creating and growing startup companies in the technology industry. In 1994, he founded and led HyperParallel, which developed and sold high-performance business intelligence software; HyperParallel was acquired by Yahoo in 1999. Teradata, which Jerry co-founded, pioneered relational database computer systems. Teradata (NYSE: TDC) was acquired by AT&T in 1992, and subsequently spun-out in 2007, and currently has sales of $1.7 billion. Previously, Jerry worked at Citicorp, where he was involved with the introduction of the first ATM machines.
Joyce Montanari	Joyce Montanari: President of DBTech Solutions, Inc. Joyce advises clients on all aspects of business intelligence, and data management. This includes metrics-driven technology selection for tools like ETL, profiling, database, quality, and metadata. Joyce speaks frequently at data warehouse conferences, and is a contributor to several trade publications. She co-authored with W. H. Inmon, and others on data warehousing and e-business, published by Wiley & Sons. Joyce has managed and implemented data warehouses and operational data stores for pharmaceutical, restaurants, telecommunications, government healthcare, financial, oil and gas, insurance, research and development and retail companies.
Yves Mulkers	Yves Mulkers has a main expertise in ETL and data modelling and has more than 15 years experience in the IT landscape within various consulting firms and 7+ years experience in production and logistics environments in various roles. Yves is a previous tdwi chapter officer and former partner enabler of a community bringing Business Intelligence practitioners, academic world and BI vendors together. He is further establishing and elaborating vendor, BI practitioners and researchers relationships, nurturing the knowledge sharing and evangelising BI in all its forms and uses. Currently actively working as an advisor on Data modelling and BI assignments at McKinsey Solutions.
Steve Murchie	Steve Murchie: Chapter President Denver/Rockies of the Keiretu Forum. Steve has over twenty-five years experience in the software industry, starting as a programmer/analyst and progressing through a variety of roles in sales, marketing and general management. The companies he has worked with span the spectrum of the industry, including startups, turnarounds, a VC-backed roll-up and an eight-year stint at Microsoft, where he helped grow the SQL Server business from $300M to over $1B in under five years. In 2004, he left Microsoft to return to the start-up world as CEO of a fledgling company, and got his first taste of the angel investing process. While that initial exposure didn't earn any financing for his business, he did gain a lot of insight from the Keiretsu Forum members, which was inevitably even more valuable. When Steve decided to relocate back to Colorado, he explored the possibility of bringing a chapter of the group to Denver, and the result is a very successful new chapter launched in March 2007.
Philippe Nieuwbourg	Philippe Nieuwbourg: Founder & Editorial Director of Decideo.fr. Philippe has around 20 years of experience in analyzing and writing about BI and Data Warehousing tools and best practices. In 1990 he created the first newsgroup on the French speaking Internet about OLAP. Decideo.fr is today the leading web community in the French speaking world about BI with more than 9,000 subscribers. Decideo.fr is affiliate site of the BeyeNETWORK.
John O'Brien	John O'Brien is Founder and Principal of Radiant Advisors, a strategic advisory firm that mentors and guides companies in meeting the demands of next generation information management, architecture, and emerging technologies. With over twenty years of experience delivering value through data warehousing and business intelligence programs, John's unique perspective comes from the combination of his roles as a practitioner, consultant, and vendor CTO in the BI industry. As a recognized thought leader in BI, he has been publishing articles and presenting at conferences in North America and Europe for over ten years.
David Ortiz	David Ortiz: Senior Business Intelligence consultant at AAJ Technologies, a leading systems integrator and solution provider in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. David has spent the last 10 years working in various organizations with a focus on enterprise data solutions. He has successfully implemented large scale BI projects on various organizations ranging from Fortune 100's to start up organizations. David places a strong focus on implementing BI strategies and roadmaps providing technology agnostic vision to organizations.
Bill Pearson	Bill Pearson is a consultant, author, mentor and architect who has been working with business intelligence for over 19 years. Bill created Island Technologies Inc. in 1997, and has developed a large and diverse customer base since. Bill's background as a CPA, Internal Auditor, and Management Accountant enable him to provide value to clients as a liaison between Accounting / Finance and Information Services.
Ron Powell	Ron Powell is President of Powell Interactive Media, which specializes in consulting and podcast services. He is an independent analyst, consultant and editorial expert with an extensive media, marketing and technology background. Ron has extensive knowledge and experience in business intelligence, big data, analytics and data warehousing, and maintains an expert channel expert and blog on the BeyeNETWORK. Additionally, he has a wealth of consulting expertise in business management, marketing and IT systems. In 2004, Ron founded the BeyeNETWORK, which was acquired by Tech Target in 2010. Prior to the founding of the BeyeNETWORK, he was cofounder, publisher and editorial director of DM Review (now Information Management).
Tom Pringle	Tom Pringle is Principal Analyst and Founder at Pringle & Company, an independent market analysis house focused on Business Intelligence software and services markets. Tom's experience covers industry analysis, management consultancy and practice management. He started his career at Datamonitor, ultimately leading the CRM research group before heading on to join Deloitte Consulting's Information Management practice where he worked with clients across industries on the strategy, management and best practice of information management. Prior to founding Pringle & Company, Tom worked at the Boston Consulting Group as its European IT practice manager. Tom's research and publications focus on the market dynamics of Business Intelligence; highlighting the trends, future direction, opportunities and risks shaping the BI marketplace.
Neil Raden	Neil Raden: Founder of Hired Brains. Neil is an active consultant, industry analyst, speaker and author. His articles appear in industry magazines, he is the author of dozens of sponsored white papers for vendors and other organizations. He has contributed to numerous books and is the co-author of Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions. You can read Neil's blog here.
Ali Rebaie	Ali Rebaie: is an entrepreneur and independent data analyst who recently founded a technology start-up in the MENA region. He is now implementing the BI strategy for the startup to become a data-driven company. He was also the founder & president for the first PASS SQL Server & BI chapter in Lebanon. He organized and presented in several online & offline events which attracted thousands of students, developers, & IT professionals in Lebanon and the region. He also led and developed several technology projects in Business Intelligence, m-health, and mobile solutions. Ali is passionate about applying Big Data in different fields like social media, marketing, and healthcare to create value in business and global economy as whole. He is also a blogger who is currently launching the first Big Data community for the Middle-East and North African region. Ali earned his bachelor degree in Management Information Systems from the Lebanese American University.
Gildardo Rojas	Gildardo Rojas Nandayapa: Systems Architect and Business Intelligence Consultant. Gildardo has more than 19 years of IT experience, architecting, developing and delivering successful operational, analytical and performance measurement solutions to organizations from various countries and sectors. Beyond hands-on experience, he keeps focus on trends, methodologies, vendors and software products, testing and assessing them to better match specific requirements and environments. Gildardo is a former Director and co-founder of IQ2B S.A. de C.V., BI & DW division of a larger Consulting Group. He holds a BS in Electronics Engineering and a MS in Computer Sciences, he teaches courses at a postgraduate level to Computer Sciences and Business Intelligence students at Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth A.C.
Ken Rowley	Ken Rowley: Founder and Managing Director of Toronto-based MarketFactor. Through an independent consulting practice Ken and his associates specialize in market positioning, sales performance and operational business improvement. With a background in sales and marketing management in BI, MarketFactor uses a range of sales and branding methodologies, combined with data analytics and BI tools, to bring clarity to our clients' decision making and business transformation. Ken has over 25 years of expertise in game-changing IT technologies representing BI products since 1997 that include: Brio, Hyperion, Cognos, Business Objects and Informatica. MarketFactor's focus is helping companies use analytic tools to better understand where they are today, and to build strategies for sales acceleration driving exponential growth.
Chuck Russell	Chuck Russell: Co-founder and Senior Partner at Collective Intelligence Inc, an information technology consulting firm located in Harrisburg, PA. Mr. Russel focuses on Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Knowledge Management and Mobile Tech. Prior to Collective Intelligence, he co-founded Infobuild Networks, Peak Technologies, and Innovative Desktop. See his blog at www.ikicstart.org.
Terri Rylander	Terry Rylander: Principal of Advanced Marketing Colleteral, Terri has over 15 years experience in business intelligence, specializing in the business side of BI where she is passionate about ensuring BI solutions drive actual business value. She has been on both the technical and business side, in roles from web application developer to Director of BI. She was one of the first to establish a formal Business Intelligence Competency Center in a Fortune 200 company. Today, she runs her own marketing business for business intelligence and high tech companies, leveraging her insights as a former customer.
Michael A. Schiff	Michael A. Schiff: Founder and Principal Analyst of MAS Strategies, an independent data warehousing industry analyst firm. Mike was formerly the Vice President of the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence service at Current Analysis as well as the Executive Director - Data Warehousing and Advanced Decision Support for Oracle Corporation's Public Sector Group. He was also the Director of Software AG's Data Management program where he was one of the industry's earliest proponents of the data mart concept. While at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984, he formulated the architecture for one of the first data warehouse implementations. Mike earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from MIT's Sloan School of Management specializing in operations research as an undergraduate, and information systems as a graduate. His prior experience as an IT Director and Systems and Programming Manager provide him with a thorough understanding of the technical, business, and political issues that must be addressed for any successful systems implementation or product launch.
Rick Sherman	Rick Sherman: Founder of Athena IT Solutions, a Boston-based consulting firm providing business intelligence, data integration and data warehousing consulting, training and vendor services. Rick has been involved in BI and DW since 1987. He has shared his expertise in over 100 industry articles and dozens of speaking engagements and webinars. An adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University, Graduate School of Engineering, he also teaches DW/BI classes to clients. Rick provides independent industry analysis through his blog The Data Doghouse.
Illya Singh	Illya Singh: President and founder of Omniana Consulting, LLC., a consulting firm that specializes in providing expertise in Business Performance Management, Data Management, and Enterprise Architecture strategy. Illya has over 20 years experience in the IT industry and over 15 years in the enterprise data management space. During this time, he has provided expertise to many major corporations in the capacity as an architect, senior management executive, corporate trainer, and consultant. He is the author of numerous white papers, the Director and cofounder of The Data Warehouse Institute South Florida, the Vice President and cofounder of DAMA South Florida, and a member of the Devry University Computer Information Systems Advisory Board.
Evangelos Simoudis	Evangelos Simoudis: Managing Director at Trident Capital. He focuses on investments in business analytics, software (SaaS) and Internet businesses (advertising technology and e-commerce). Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.
David Stodder	David Stodder: Director of BI Reasearch at TDWI. He focuses on providing research-based insight and best practices for organizations implementing BI, analytics, performance management, data discovery, data visualization, and related technologies and methods. He is the author of TDWI Best Practices Reports on mobile BI and customer analytics in the age of social media, as well as TDWI Checklist Reports on data discovery and information management. He has chaired TDWI conferences on BI agility and big data analytics. Mr. Stodder has provided thought leadership on BI, information management, and IT management for over two decades. He has served as vice president and research director with Ventana Research, and he was the founding chief editor of Intelligent Enterprise, where he served as editorial director for nine years.
Paul te Braak	Paul te Braak: Independent Consultant and founder of abaX data. Paul has been delivering solutions to business for over ten years and focuses on data, business and process modelling to improve the alignment of performance management and operational systems. Starting his career as a Chartered Accountant, Paul soon realised the need to align business and information technology. He is a regular speaker on business intelligence, data modelling, data mining and design.
Oliver Vagner	Oliver Vagner: Principal Architect of Solution Forge, LLC has over 20 years of consulting experience in multiple industry verticals including retail, food service, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and defense. Oliver is an experienced technology professional with a Bachelors and Masters of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida. Solution Forge, LLC, an Atlanta-based consultancy, provides business intelligence design and strategy services across a wide breadth of industries and technologies. Solution Forge works with clients and partners to define the business need, assess the correct technologies and architect the best solution to enable superior decision support in the enterprise..
Rick van der Lans	Rick F. van der Lans is Founder of R20/Consultancy. Rick is an independent analyst, lecturer, and author. He specializes in data warehousing, business intelligence, service oriented architectures, and database technology. He is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. He has lectured professionally for the last twenty years. In 2009 he introduced the Data Delivery Platform, a BI architecture based on data virtualization principles. He writes for BeyeNetwork.com and for several IT magazines. He has published many successful whitepapers. Rick is the chairman of the annual European Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Conference and the annual BI Event. He is the author of several books on computing, including the popular Introduction to SQL and SQL for MySQL Developers.
Felice Vitulano	Felice Vitulano: Head of Business Intelligence & Information Management for Exprivia, an Italian consulting firm. He has an Executive MBA from Politecnico di Milano and a degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Bari. He has more than 15 years of extensive experience in the Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management market, always with the focus on providing value-added solutions for businesses. He manages complex BI projects, especially for large industrial companies and Public Sector. He is a passionate user of raw data for solving real business and social problems.
Colin White	Colin White: Founder of BI Research. He is well known for his in-depth knowledge of leading-edge business intelligence and business integration technologies, and how they can be used to build a smart and agile business. With more than 35 years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events. He is also conference chair for DCI's Portal, Collaboration and Content Management conference. Colin has written numerous articles on business intelligence and enterprise business integration. Colin has an expert channel and blog on the BeyeNETWORK.
Nancy Williams	Nancy Williams Vice President of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing at DecisionPath Consulting, a full-service BI/DW consulting firm. Focusing her work on how Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW) can be leveraged to improve business performance, Nancy is a well-known industry educator, author, and practitioner. She has more than 25 years of business management and technical experience. Nancy is a long-standing faculty member at TDWI and hosts the BI impact channel on the BeyeNETWORK. She has authored articles in numerous publications and is co-author of the highly-rated book The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence. Nancy received her MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.
Richard Winter	Richard Winter is an industry expert in large scale data management technology, architecture and implementation with over twenty-five years of experience. As President of WINTERCORP, a consulting firm in Cambridge MA, he advises executives on their strategies and critical projects, focusing on scalability, performance and availability in data warehousing, analytics and big data. Mr. Winter is a frequent author and speaker. He leads seminars and structured workshops on scalability management, including the architecture and selection of data warehouse, analytic data and big data platforms. Mr. Winter also has extensive experience in the creation, direction and evaluation of pilot systems, proofs-of-concept, benchmarks, and other performance measurement and systems engineering projects.
Lynn Winterboer	Lynn Winterboer is an Agile DW/BI trainer and consultant. She is passionate about applying Agile frameworks to DW/BI projects and improving the way teams deliver value to stakeholders. She has participated in both Agile and Data Warehousing projects since the mid-90s, where she's held many team roles and understands from experience the unique set of challenges faced by DW/BI teams who want to benefit from the incremental style of Agile development. Lynn holds a BA in Southwest Studies from Colorado College, a Master's in International Management from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business, and is Certified Business Intelligence Professional at the Mastery level (CBIP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) & Product Owner (CSPO) and a PMI Project Management Professional (PMP).
Lyndsay Wise	Lyndsay Wise: President and Founder of WiseAnalytics, an independent analyst firm specializing in business intelligence, master data management, and unstructured data. For ten years, she has assisted clients in business systems analysis, software selection, and implementation of enterprise applications. Lyndsay conducts regular research studies, consults, writes articles and speaks about improving the value of business intelligence within organizations.