Aaron Zornes is the founder and chief research officer of The MDM Institute. Mr. Zornes is a noted speaker and author on Global 2000 enterprise IT issues and is the most quoted industry analyst on the topics of customer data integration' (CDI), master data management (MDM), and data governance. Mr. Zornes is also the editor and lead contributor to DM Review's CDI Newsletter as well as the monthly columnist for both CDI and MDM.

Editorial Director, DM Review Magazine and BI Review Magazine.
Jim Ericson is responsible for identifying and aligning all areas of editorial content for DM Review and BI Review and for ensuring that the magazines maintain their position as market leaders in the data warehousing, business intelligence and information management arena. He is a primary contributor of features, interviews and editorial comment in both publications. 

A founder of PROTRADE, the massively popular and innovative sports fantasy site, Jeffrey Ma shows companies how to harness the power of rational, quantitative analysis to improve decision-making and the bottom line. Ma’s life at MIT, where he was a number-crunching genius who took Vegas by storm, is the basis of the bestselling book Bringing Down the House, and an upcoming major motion picture, 21, starring Kevin Spacey.

Mr. Allburn is a 19-year industry veteran and President/CEO of DataDelta, Inc. which provides CDI-MDM consulting and patent-pending, vendor-neutral match accuracy analysis software used to analyze & optimize the match accuracy of Data Quality, CDI & MDM vendor match engines including custom, in-house match engines.

Misty Allen is a Business Solutions Manager responsible for managing the global Marketing & Customer Data Business Analyst teams at National Instruments (NI).

Alok Arora has more than 20 years experience directing and architecting CRM strategies, large scale enterprise products and applications, financial products and information systems.

Tarun Batra is the President of LumenData, LLC. Prior to LumenData, Mr. Batra led the MDM and Business Intelligence Consulting Practice at Oracle for North America. He has been a frequent speaker at Industry conferences focused on MDM and Data Quality.

Patrick Booher is Director of Customer Data Management at Autodesk, Inc. Mr. Booher joined Autodesk in 2005 and has over 14 years of experience in applying people, process and technology towards solving business problems and enabling new business capabilities.

Karen Boswell is VP of Data Management Services at Premier Inc, a leading hospital performance improvement alliance and purchasing organization. 

Mark Boucher is responsible for the solution architecture in support of Intel’s supply network capabilities.  He has over 21 years of supply chain knowledge that spans ERP solutions to business intelligence.  Additionally in previous positions at Intel Mark drove data quality practices across the corporation.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University and recently received APICS’ (Association of Operations Management) CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) designation.

Martin Boyd is VP Marketing at Silver Creek Systems, a pioneer and leader in automated product data solutions that complement PIM and MDM solutions with a full range of solutions from initial clean-up and standardization to enrichment, translation, integration and ongoing governance across all product data domains.  Martin has over twenty years experience in Product Management, Product Marketing and Marketing Communications for enterprise software companies.

Thomas Brauch has over 10 years of experience in analytic marketing practices primarily in the financial services and high-tech industries. Mr. Brauch is an expert in database marketing and has developed or managed the development of sophisticated targeting and forecasting models to help companies improve their customer’s lifetime value and optimize campaign effectiveness. Prior to this position, he was Vice President of e-Commerce and Analytics at Bank of America. Mr. Brauch holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from University of California at Berkeley and a M.S. degree in Statistics from California State at Hayward.

George Bryce, Enterprise Architect and Program Manager for Procter & Gamble’s Global Data Management organization, is a 22 year P&G veteran with 17 years managing the company’s master data.  Mr. Bryce has led in the design and development of P&G’s master data systems and work processes in which a single SAP data client manages the company’s master data.  Successful master data management has been a key enabler for acquisitions and industry efforts such as GDSN (Global Data Synchronization).   He has also taken leading roles in industry standards projects such as the GS1 Data Accuracy Task Force.

Suresh Chandrasekaran is vice president of product management and marketing
at Denodo Technologies, an innovative provider of Enterprise Data Mashups
that combine data integration, web extraction and search in a single
platform.

Mr. Chandrasekaran brings over 17 years of experience in strategy
consulting and enterprise software products and marketing on a worldwide
basis. 

Prior to Denodo, he was the vice president of worldwide marketing at
Vitria Technology where he managed all aspects of marketing Vitria's
award-winning BusinessWare BPM and Integration suite and pre-built vertical
solutions called Business Process Applications. He has also held management
positions at Epicentric (now Vignette), AltaVista, and Compaq, and was a
management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton for 5 years. Mr. Chandrasekaran
is a Chartered Accountant and has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the
University of Michigan.

Mark Clare is the Vice President of Data Integration Services at TIAA-CREF and oversees Master Data Management, Enterprise Data Movement and Business Intelligence.  Mr. Clare’s responsibilities include enterprise-wide data management strategy, governance and architectural functions within the organization, blending data management ‘best practices’ with the implementation of new technologies and ensuring success of all data related business initiatives.  

David Codelli is Group Manager of Segment Marketing at Sun Microsystems. A 15 year veteran of business integration, Mr. Codelli integrated systems and applications in healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing before becoming product manager of the flagship eGate Integrator product from SeeBeyond Technologies Corporation, which was later acquired by Sun Microsystems.

Shirlee Collins is a Senior Project Manager at ADP Dealer Services, the leading provider of integrated computing solutions to nearly 25,500 auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and RV dealers throughout the world.

David has been with IBM since 2005 and is currently responsible for product management of IBM Information Solutions, including IBM's Master Data Management group of products. Prior to joining IBM, David worked at DWL Inc., and was responsible for product strategy, marketing, and product management for DWL Customer, a leading CDI hub.

Lisa Cortez, Manager of the Global HR Information Systems organization for Chevron, has management responsibility for HR Master Data Management, Enterprise Data Movement, Global HR IT Investments, Global HRIS Governance and Strategy, HR IT applications and Business Intelligence. 

Angie Couron currently manages the Customer Data Integration Group at Network Appliance. Formerly, she headed up NetApp’s Enterprise Data Stewardship Group. As manager of CDI, Ms. Couron drives initiatives around data management, customer master and data quality architecture, testing and training. Previously, she was an integral member of the design and integration team that implemented NetApp’s “Enterprise-Wide Customer Master” an operational, real-time master using Oracle Customers Online (OCO). The successful 4-year old “Customer Master Program” at NetApp integrates three individual source applications and ultimately feeds downstream business intelligence reporting from the data warehouse. Ms. Couron has over 20 years experience in data management, including four years in Database Marketing.

Christopher Dwight is responsible for driving the success of Oracle's MDM portfolio throughout North America. In this role, Mr. Dwight engages with both partners and

Christopher Dwight is responsible for driving the success of Oracle's MDM portfolio throughout North America. In this role, Mr. Dwight engages with both partners and customers to develop and articulate their MDM strategies. With more than twelve years experience in the MDM field, he has helped numerous Global 1000 size companies overcome significant master data challenges to create tangible business value. Previously, Mr. Dwight was Director of MDM Business Development for EMEA at Hyperion Solutions and was based in Paris, France. Prior to Hyperion, he was a founding member of Razza Solutions, the Texas-based software start-up that pioneered financial and analytical MDM technology.

Tim Enten is the Risk Data Quality Manager in the Risk Data Strategy and Governance Group at Wachovia. During his 17 years of banking experience he has implemented and managed data warehouse environments, data marts, and data quality/control solutions. Recently, in order to ensure Basel II compliance, he has developed Risk Data Policy, Standards and Guidelines to oversee risk data quality and address risk data related issues across the company.

Tony Fisher joined DataFlux in September 2000 as President and CEO. During that time Mr. Fisher has guided the company through tremendous growth to become a market-leading provider of technology for data quality, data integration, data governance and master data management.

Bence Gazdag is the global process owner (GPO) for Oracle’s customer data quality management project. Mr. Gazdag has held this position since 2004 when Oracle merged all of its financial and CRM instances and created a global single system instance. The new global instance required close collaboration and standard processes among all lines of business around data management.

Jon Gerush is a technology manager with experience implementing, supporting, enhancing, upgrading and integrating enterprise wide systems including data integration, data warehousing, BI, CRM, HR Management, and Web (Internet, Intranet and Extranet).

Alex Gorelik is responsible for the company's technical vision, direction and product development. Mr. Gorelik spent the last 20 years developing cutting edge data-integration technology and founded Exeros in 2002 after spending several years helping large IT organizations integrate their systems, and experiencing first-hand the challenges of mapping data in complex environments.

Hardeep Gulati leads the product strategy for Oracle’s Product Information Management solution (Product Hub), Agile Product Lifecycle Management, and Configurator applications.   Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Gulati was Vice President of Product Development at SpinCircuit Inc., an electronics component supplier management company founded by Cadence, HP, Flextronics and Avnet.  He also was Chief Technology Officer and founder for eBizAutomation Inc. that was acquired by SpinCircuit.  Mr. Gulati also has worked at Lucent Technologies and Dun & Bradstreet.  He holds an MBA from the Wharton Business School in addition to his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science & Engineering.

Bob Hagenau's 20 year career in the software business includes positions as a key player in multiple successful start-ups as well as well-known public companies. At Purisma, Bob is responsible for the definition of Purisma's product strategy, positioning of solutions and corporate development activities.

Malia Hardin’s current responsibilities include product marketing for IBM’s Master Data Management offerings, InfoSphere Master Data Management Server and WebSphere Product Center. Ms. Hardin has contributed to IBM’s Master Data Management offerings for over four years, including involvement in acquisitions, product strategy, and product marketing. Prior to joining IBM, Ms. Hardin worked with emerging eCommerce business models and technology companies in her roles at venture capital and strategic management consulting organizations. Ms. Hardin has her Masters of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College. Ms. Hardin resides in Seattle with her husband and son.

Umesh Hari is has gained deep experience during the past decade in designing and implementing large business intelligence, data warehousing, data management and data integration projects in Oil & Gas, Utilities, Energy Trading, Capital Markets and Financial Services. Mr. Hari has also helped several clients formulate their of data management strategy leveraging data governance, data quality, master data and metadata technologies. He is a seasoned speaker and published author of numerous articles and papers on data management and architecture, focused on solving client problems in the Information Management arena. Mr. Hari has advanced degrees from India and Texas A&M

Mr. Hartley has been with ConAgra since 1995 and is currently responsible for defining and achieving the company’s data strategy and objectives. Mr. Hartley manages ConAgra Foods’ data-related activities, including data governance, and data maintenance. His key responsibilities are to define data-related business processes and data standards, ensure compliance to those standards, as well as publishing and monitoring the company’s data scorecards and metrics.

Phil Howard has 25 years of HR and HRIT experience.  During the last three years has worked as a Business Analyst on Project Olympic, expanding one instance of SAP HR to 102 countries.  New assignment will focus on initiatives to improve HR data quality across systems.

J.P. Hurtado has over eight years of diverse industry and consulting experience working with Fortune 500 companies.  Mr. Hurtado has specialized in customer relationship management (CRM), customer data integration (CDI), marketing, business process reengineering, and data analysis.  At RCCL, his current responsibilities include: CDI tool selection, CDI project sponsor, in addition to current and future state CDI functional architecture.  Prior to RCCL, Mr. Hurtado worked with Ernst & Young and Capgemini.  He received his BSBA in Decision Information Sciences from the University of Florida.

Mark Boucher is responsible for the solution architecture in support of Intel’s supply netwo

Rakshit Kapoor
Director, Master Data Management and Data Architecture
TIAA-CREF

Rakshit Kapoor is the Director of Master Data Management at TIAA-CREF. He has the responsibility for enterprise initiatives on Data Quality, Data Model, Data Architecture, Customer Data Integration, Metadata and Data Governance.

Pascal Laik is the Vice President of Oracle Master Data Management (MDM) Product Strategy. His group’s responsibilities include the direction of Oracle’s investment in the Master Data Management area as well Oracle’s MDM go to market strategy. 

Doug LaVelle serves as the Director of the Business Relationship Management team at Corporate Express (CE), a worldwide distributor of office related products and services with gross revenues in excess of $8B. 

Chris Lucas is recognized as a subject matter expert in the areas of CRM and Customer Information Management with specific expertise in data quality, data integration and data enrichment. Mr. Lucas' expertise is based on more than 19 years of business-to business information and technology experience.

As a key MDM contributor at GMAC ResCap CTO Rob Lux has had broad experience with data management throughout all of GMAC Financial Services.  Mr. Lux has been at GMAC since 1998.  Prior to GMAC, he held leadership positions with EDS, Reuters, and Globe Ticket.  He also has held IT positions at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and IBM.  Mr. Lux has a BS Degree from Drexel University, a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton, is a Certified Mortgage Technologist (CMT), and is PMP certified.

During the early to mid-90's, Mr. Lyle worked as a data warehousing consultant on numerous enterprise-scale, massively parallel warehouse projects. From this experience, he helped found and grow Influence Software from 1996 to 1999 as a pioneering company in the development of packaged Analytic Applications. After Influence was purchased by Informatica in 1999, Mr. Lyle’s ideas and R&D leadership following his role as VP of R&D for the Informatica Applications led to the development of Metadata Manager and several patents and pending patents throughout Informatica's product lines.

William McKnight is a renowned expert in information management.  Mr. McKnight has architected and directed the development of several of the largest and most successful enterprise data warehouse programs in the world.  Five clients in the past year have gone public with their success case study where he was advisor or architect of the solution.  Mr. McKnight is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a best practices judge, widely quoted, master's level instructor and has authored more than 100 articles/white papers and given over 100 seminars.  In 2005, CSI acquired McKnight Associates, Inc., which placed #306 in the Inc. 500. He is a former Fortune 100 IT VP of a recognized Best Practices Information Management Program, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Justin Magruder joined Freddie Mac in July 2007 as VP of Enterprise Information Strategies and Management.  Mr. Magruder is accountable for the policies, procedures, operations and compliance for Freddie Mac’s data, records, and content management.

Mr. Manda is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience in implementing Enterprise solutions using Oracle, PeopleSoft, etc. As a founder of Rhapsody Technologies, he is a seasoned implementer of CDI solutions. Mr. Manda regularly lectures on CDI implementations, Oracle’s Trading Community Architecture, and related topics, etc. Mr. Manda is also the chairman of the Oracle SIG for Oracle Customer Data Hub.

Dr. John Maslanski has over 15 years of technology and information management experience. While at Merck for the last 12 years, Dr. Maslanski has experience across a broad set of business areas including supporting the Drug Discovery, Clinical Trial, R&D Management, and Global Sales and Marketing business areas. Most recently, Dr. Maslanski has been leading the Information Architecture practice for the enterprise within Merck's Enterprise Architecture group as well as playing a lead architect role in Merck's Global CRM program.

Daniel Mathieux is the Director of the MRM (CRM) Action Center for the national office of AAA.  His responsibilities include providing business guidance, solution development, and operational support to customer / business intelligence initiatives for AAA Clubs.  He has a proven history of applying business, technical, and process improvement skills to meet and exceed business objectives. 

Mr. Mathieux has extensive experience in developing and implementing a variety of technical projects and is certified in database marketing.  He has developed and implemented numerous solutions in the area of database marketing, customer knowledge integration and management, Internet personalization, customer service interaction management, and on-line communications.

Mr. Mathieux resides in Florida with his wife.  Outside of the extensive community involvement, they own and operate a small alpaca ranch near Daytona Beach.

Mr. McCready is a partner with CSC’s Consulting Group.  He leads the Data Integration/Data Warehouse Practice within its Technology Services Group.

Gokula Mishra has more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant and an enterprise architect in developing and implementing business driven IT strategies, architectures and enterprise wide cross-functional as well as Enterprise Information Management solutions. He has designed and implemented solutions for large global enterprises involving application development, systems integration and conversion, enterprise application integration (EAI) across ERP, CRM & SCM, enterprise data models, Data storage and movement, information lifecycle management, master data management, meta data management, Data Quality management, Data Governance, business intelligence/enterprise data warehousing (BI/DW),ETL, data mining, predictive analytics, sales and marketing process automation and optimization.

Nimish Mehta is CEO of LumenData, LLC.  Until recently, Mr. Mehta was Senior Vice President, Enterprise Information Management at SAP where his responsibilities included the development and management of “Data Layer” of the SAP Product Offerings.  This included Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Enterprise Search, Database and more.  

Martin “Marty” Moseley plays an integral role in Initiate Systems’ strategic technology direction, development and future product evolution, and is a key evangelist on behalf of the company.  Mr. Moseley joined Initiate from Intuit where, as chief architect, he implemented Initiate Identity Hub™ software to provide a single view of all Intuit customer information and transactions.

Having worked with the software and systems providers that have been key to the formulation of MDM, Kelle O’Neal has played important roles in many of the groundbreaking initiatives that have confirmed the value of MDM to the enterprise.  Recognizing an unmet need for clear guidance and advice on the intricacies of implementing MDM solutions, Ms. O’Neal founded First San Francisco Partners early in 2007.   First San Francisco Partners immediately established a reputation as the first-call resource for companies looking to tap the value of CDI and MDM.  Ms. O’Neal developed her ability work through organizational complexity, build consensus and drive results in senior roles at companies such as Siperian, GoldenGate Software, Oracle, and Siebel Systems.  She has worked at the executive level in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.  Her strong background in CRM, enterprise software, and systems integration enable her to provide expert counsel to any organization seeking to execute an MDM project.  Ms. O’Neal most recently served as General Manager, EMEA, for Siperian.  She earned her B.A. from Duke University and also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Richard Pilkington is responsible for driving research and product management efforts. This includes product strategy, messaging/positioning, sales process/training, customer/market analyses, and partnership/alliance development.

Dan Power is President of Hub Solution Designs, Inc., a management
consulting firm specializing in Master Data Management, Customer Data Integration and Data Governance.

Mr. Manda is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience in implementing Enterprise solutions using Oracle, PeopleSoft, etc. As a founder of Rhapsody Technologies, he is a seasoned implementer of CDI solutions. Mr. Manda regularly lectures on CDI implementations, Oracle’s Trading Community Architecture, and related topics, etc. Mr. Manda is also the chairman of the Oracle SIG for Oracle Customer Data Hub.

Neil Raden is the founder of Hired Brains, Inc., a research, advisory and consulting firm specializing in Business Intelligence, Decision Automation, Data Mining, Semantic Technology, Information Integration and Real-Time Analytics.  Hired Brains has been active since 1985 across North America and Europe.

Robert Rich’s vision for innovative data integration, quality and governance solutions that positively impact business performance is at the heart of DataQualityFirst Inc.   Known for his enthusiastic presentations and subject matter expertise, Mr. Rich is a recognized expert in data quality, data integration and managing master data in complex heterogeneous environments. 

Heidi Roybal is the VP of Finance Systems and Operations, has been with Wamu for 10 years and is located at the bank’s corporate headquarters in Seattle Washington.  In her current role Ms. Roybal reports up through the Corporate Controller’s division, in which she is responsible for daily operations of the bank’s core finance system platforms. 

Diane Schmidt is a Senior Director at Freddie Mac supporting Enterprise Information Strategy & Management (EISM).  Reporting to Justin Magruder, VP, EISM; Ms. Schmidt is responsible for the management and implementation of the Reference Data Services Initiative.  

Robert S. Seiner is the President and Principal of KIK Consulting & Educational Services, LLC, a consultancy focused on designing and implementing best practices in the areas of data governance & data stewardship, meta-data management, data management programs and data architecture.

Rajesh Shewale manages clients in the central United States for Wipro. With over 15 years consulting experience in manufacturing, military, financial, insurance, hi-tech, and training industries, Mr. Shewale specializes in building enterprise-wide solutions in the BI and MDM space. One of his key achievements has been architecting EDW solution for US Army Recruiting Command. He received his MBA from the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

Anshuman Sindhar is a manager with BearingPoint's Financial Services practice. He has ten years of experience in information management, business intelligence, master data management and customer data integration solutions. He has helped clients operationalize their performance measurement and enterprise risk management goals.

Abhay Singhal is a Solution Lead of Teradata Master Data Management since 2006.  He is currently the overall Solution Architect for various MDM initiatives at Intel.  Prior to Teradata Mr. Singhal was part of MDM team at i2 Technologies where he was member in various customer and project initiatives.  His complete profile can be seen at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/abhaysinghal

John Smolarski leads the master data management efforts associated with Countrywide's Financial and Human Resource data retained within the PeopleSoft ERP platform.  Prior to this position, Mr. Smolarski was responsible for development of reporting, data warehousing, and application development teams implementing budgeting, management reporting, and scorecard solutions.

With over 25 years of experience in the consulting practice, Mr. Srinivasan has contributed extensively to organizations, helping them derive strategic benefits and greater return on investment from their IT investments.

Mr. Manda is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience in implementing Enterprise solutions using Oracle, PeopleSoft, etc. As a founder of Rhapsody Technologies, he is a seasoned implementer of CDI solutions. Mr. Manda regularly lectures on CDI implementations, Oracle’s Trading Community Architecture, and related topics, etc. Mr. Manda is also the chairman of the Oracle SIG for Oracle Customer Data Hub.

Kuldeep Tanwar currently manages MDM, ERP/CRM and Business Intelligence Applications at Wind River Systems in Alameda, California.  Mr. Tanwar has worked on 9+ ERP and CRM implementations using Oracle EBusiness Suite, Peoplesoft and Siebel technologies over the past 10 years. He recently completed a successful operational MDM implementation using Oracle's Customer Data Hub product, SOA Suite, and Trillium.  Mr. Tanwar has over 15 years experience in design and managing of packaged and custom applications including similar projects at  Exodus, Cable & Wireless,DST & Aremisoft.

Mr. Manda is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience in implemen Manda is also the chairman of the Oracl

Mr. Viswanathan is a seasoned IT professional, with over 19 years of ITexperience. As the Practice Director for MDM at TCS, he is responsible for creating and developing industry specific uses of the TCS Master DataManagement offering.