Gartner Business Intelligence Summit

Bob Baker is a Director on the Microsoft SQL Server team, working at Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington. He has worldwide responsibility for Microsoft’s Business Intelligence and the SQL Server system integrator partner ecosystems. Prior to his role on the SQL Server team, Bob managed the worldwide technical relationships for several of Microsoft’s largest ISV partners, including SAP, Teradata, and others. He has also served as technical leader in a variety of small software companies, including as Vice President of Host Systems Product Development at CRS Retail (now owned by Epicor Software) and as Senior Manager at Pandesic, a joint venture between Intel and SAP. Bob began his career as an IT analyst at Procter & Gamble. Bob’s educational background is a BS in Computer Science from Indiana University. He resides in Snohomish, Washington, with his wife and three children.

Rene' Batsford has over 15 years experience in the Retail, Manufacturing and Entertainment Industries. He has worked for leading brands such as Molton Brown Cosmetics and EAT, where he holds his present position as Head of IT. EAT were the first UK chain to roll out a fully integrated contactless payment solution. Arguably Rene's biggest project to date was delivering the IT Strategy and infrastructure for the world renowned "The O2" as European IT Director for Anschutz Entertainment Group.

Ian Bertram is a managing vice president in Gartner Research, where he leads the Business Intelligence Research team globally and is the head of Research for Asia/Pacific. Mr. Bertram's team of analysts focuses on topics such as business intelligence strategy and platforms, analytics, corporate performance management, Web analytics, business activity monitoring and competency centers. The analysts within this team cover various countries across the globe, publishing research and advising clients on strategic and tactical advantages with respect to trends in business intelligence and information management. Mr. Bertram is based in the Gartner Sydney office.

Mark Beyer is a research vice president in Gartner, where he has specialized in information architectures, data integration and business intelligence strategies, data solution architectures and technologies for data warehousing, data marts, and data integration. His area of coverage extends into SOA principles for data management. From a practical perspective, prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Beyer has almost 11 years of direct field experience in data management, integration, business intelligence and application development and was a power user before that.

Andreas Bitterer is a research vice president in Gartner, where he specializes in business intelligence, data integration and data quality, with expertise in open-source and mobile BI, location intelligence, and BI governance.

With bags of experience in the business intelligence market, Richard really understands the opportunities that NeutrinoBI's revolutionary freeform search & discovery technology opens up for business users and analysts. In his previous commercial roles within Oracle and Ingres he developed a deep foundational knowledge of business information and intelligence systems. His educational background in computer science means that he quickly grasps the requirements of IT teams as well as business managers. Richard now brings this understanding to the NeutrinoBI fold, along with a proven track record of strategic selling, account management, and partnership development.

Stephen Brobst is the CTO at Teradata. Previously, he founded three start-up companies (one acquired by IBM, one acquired by NCR, and one IPO). Stephen performed his Masters and PhD research at the MIT in the area of high performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen was recently appointed to Barack Obama's Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Stephen Brobst is the CTO at Teradata. Previously, he founded three start-up companies (one acquired by IBM, one acquired by NCR, and one IPO). Stephen performed his Masters and PhD research at the MIT in the area of high performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen was recently appointed to Barack Obama's Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Christophe Caquineau is a Vice President at Avanade, managing the Business Intelligence Service Line in Europe, Africa and Latin America. He has responsibility for leading the development of BI solutions for the market, ensuring the delivery readiness of each region, the shaping of large BI programs and delivery quality assurance for Accenture and Avanade. He has been working in the BI Accenture/Avanade group for 15 years and started his career in managing Parallel Computing Data Centers for French research institutes. Christophe has a PhD in Computer Science.

Neil Chandler is a Gartner research director, where he focuses on business intelligence, analytics and performance management. This includes writing about and advising organizations about market trends, vendors, service providers and best practices. Mr. Chandler has a leading position in driving Gartner's research into performance management incorporating metrics, scorecards, strategy management and corporate performance management.

Erica Driver is a senior director of global product marketing at QlikTech. She was a lead on the launch of QlikView 11, which shipped in November 2011. Her current focus is on QlikView’s social Business Discovery efforts. Prior to joining QlikTech, Erica was a co-founder and principal with ThinkBalm, an independent analyst firm focused on work-related use of immersive technology. Prior to co-founding ThinkBalm, she was a principal analyst at Forrester Research, where she specialized in enterprise collaboration platforms and strategy.

Erica Driver is a senior director of global product marketing at QlikTech. She was a lead on the launch of QlikView 11, which shipped in November 2011. Her current focus is on QlikView’s social Business Discovery efforts. Prior to joining QlikTech, Erica was a co-founder and principal with ThinkBalm, an independent analyst firm focused on work-related use of immersive technology. Prior to co-founding ThinkBalm, she was a principal analyst at Forrester Research, where she specialized in enterprise collaboration platforms and strategy.

Ben Eazzetta is president of International Operations for Rolta India Limited, a leading multinational technology services provider serving, North America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East since 1982. Eazzetta joined Rolta after having served as president of Intergraph's Security, Government, and Infrastructure division, where he led all aspects of global sales, marketing, delivery, and business development. His career with Intergraph spanned more than six years and included several positions, including chief operating officer of the Process, Power, and Marine Division and president of the Public Safety Division. Prior to Intergraph, Eazzetta worked at Exxon Company, USA, rising from a mechanical engineer ultimately to department head over operations and maintenance responsible for safety, operations, training, and contract administration. Mr. Eazzetta holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering and master's degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech.

Roxane Edjlali is a research director focusing on DBMS, data management and integration technologies.

For the last 20 years, Timo Elliott has worked with companies around the world on their information strategy. A popular and engaging speaker, he presents regularly to IT and business audiences on subjects such as why BI projects fail and what to do about it and the intersection of BI and enterprise 2.0. His Business Analytics blog at timoelliott.com tracks innovations in business intelligence, performance management, and analytics, including topics such as augmented corporate reality, collaborative decision-making, and social network analysis. He holds a first-class honours degree in Economics with Statistics from Bristol University, England.

Mr. Fischer has worked for Siemens since 2003. From 2003 – 2010 he was a Senior Consultant for Siemens IT Solutions, where he focused on global projects in IT strategy, architecture and infrastructure. He is currently, since 2010 the Senior Project Manager for Siemens Rail Systems, where he has worked on various projects including Environmental Compliance (Reach, RoHS, Battery-Law) and Integrated Project Management and Planning, based on SAP BW and Information Builders WebFOCUS. Mr. Fischer received a scholarship from Siemens to study Telecommunications and IT, and holds a Masters of Computer Science degree from Fernuniversität Hagen

Harriet is a 20+ year veteran in BI market, including 8 years in professional services on customer implementations. She is spokesperson and writer on key trends including BI convergence with Social Software, Big Data, Cloud and workload optimized systems. Her passion is how technology translates into helping organizations make better, faster decisions through broader BI adoption and deployment success.

Bill Gassman is a research director in Gartner Research, where he is part of the Business Intelligence infrastructure team. He is the lead analyst for the topics of business activity monitoring and Web analytics.

Dimitris Geragas joined Gartner Consulting's federal practice in November 2006 in Arlington, Virginia. He brings extensive and demonstrated experience in business alignment, IT strategy and governance, enterprise architecture, information and data strategy and management, and knowledge management. He is an expert in business intelligence, analytics, informatics and knowledge encapsulation and has broad experience in a wide range of business functions, including strategy, marketing, differentiation, finance and business development.

Rob Geraghty is the founder of The Wow Factor and helps you to deliver your message in a way that will leave your audience impressed. Rob previously worked for Accenture, Mars & Vodafone and he now coaches senior business people in how to communicate with passion and authenticity. Whether you are presenting to your Board, pitching to Dragon’s Den or addressing an industry conference, Rob gives you the confidence to stand up and impress your audience.

John Hagerty brings more than 30 years of experience in enterprise applications and technologies to his role as research vice president in Gartner's Business Intelligence group. His research focus is analytics, including supporting technologies and applied best practices by content area.

Tim Harford is a world renowned behavioural economist and award-winning Financial Times columnist. Frequently described as 'Britain's Malcolm Gladwell,' his first two books, The Logic of Life and The Undercover Economist, have been translated into 30 languages and sold well over a million copies. He is also presenter of Radio 4's More or Less. 2011 saw the arrival of Tim's third book, ADAPT: Why Success Always Starts With Failure. It suggests that today's challenges can't be solved with ready-made solutions. We must learn to improvise, rather than plan. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, physics, maths and economics, Tim shows how adaptive, trial-and-error processes can help tackle everything from innovation to financial crises. Gillian Tett describes it as "required reading for anyone trying to navigate an increasingly complex world." But whilst he's a 'serious' economist with a career spanning Oxford, Shell and the World Bank, Tim's FT columns dwell on the economics of daily life and offer tongue-in-cheek solutions to readers' problems. He used a similar, highly accessible style as presenter of the BBC2 series, Trust Me, I'm an Economist. Drawing on the frontiers of economic research, Tim's speeches cover everything from theories on how to save the world from Armageddon to how we can match odd socks, lose weight and find happiness. He might also reveal the hidden logic of the world around us: when a teenager commits a burglary or a smoker lights a cigarette we seem to be a million miles from common sense - or are we? Weaving evidence from sources like casinos and speed-dating, Tim shows that human behaviour is actually surprisingly logical.

Gareth Herschel is the Gartner lead analyst on the use of analytics to drive improved business performance in the area of customer relationships. Today's analytical enterprise uses metrics to improve (not just track) performance, employs predictive analytics to drive better decisions, and applies social network analysis and text mining to improve understanding of customer segmentation, value and satisfaction across the marketing and customer service channels.

Bill Hostmann is a research vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research, where he focuses on business intelligence.

As CEO of Autonomy Promote, Multichannel Technology, Andrew leads the businesses specializing in advanced technologies for organizations seeking to organize, understand and optimize on multichannel customer interactions across the web, contact center, social media and more. In this role, Andrew is a primary advocate for the Chief Customer Officer and every organization's desire to compile a complete and meaningful picture of their customer interactions. Prior to joining Autonomy through the ZANTAZ acquisition in 2007, Andrew served as a CEO and President of Singlecast Technologies Inc., an early pioneer of information classification, real-time policy management and compliance & legal technologies, which he founded. From 1996 to 2002 Mr. Joiner served as an investment banker with Citigroup in New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Vanderbilt University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.

Dave Kasabian is responsible for developing and executing Tagetik’s global positioning and go-to-market strategy. Kasabian has over 20 years of experience in the performance management software market. Most recently as the founder of the Pervasive Performance Group (PPG) and as Research Director with AMR Research (nowGartner) where his coverage area included performance management and business intelligence technology and processes. Before joining AMR Research, Dave was a Director at Alvarez and Marsal Business Consulting and spent 13 years at software vendors Cartesis (nowSAP) and Hyperion Solutions (nowOracle) in various management positions including Product Marketing, Product Management, Implementation Services, and Channel Alliances.

James Knight is Web Capabilities Product Manager at Betfair, responsible for defining and driving ecommerce strategy. James’s remit covers a number of enterprise-wide solutions including CMS, Analytics and Personalisation. James has a background of supplier selection and implementation across a variety of enterprise solutions. Prior to Product Management, James was employed in Programme and Project Manager roles for 10 years.

Nick Manning is the UK Sales Lead for the HP & Microsoft developed SQL Appliances at HP. His experience within HP spans 14 years, and most recently he has been focused on bringing HP’s Integrated Infrastructure programme to market in the Cloud and BI/Data Management areas. The commitment between HP and MS, as primary partners for BI/DM solutions, offers customers lower deployment and management costs for large scale data platforms. The importance that both vendors attach to this business is unprecedented, highlighted by the investment and extensive resources allocated to the programme. Nick co-ordinates this business within HP, and interfaces into the Microsoft teams in the UK to develop the new AppSystem for Microsoft BI and Data Management solutions portfolio. Prior to this, Nick has been involved within the Telco & Media business selling application platforms and solutions, and has a computer science education.

Nils Jakob Olsen is 54 years old and has spent most of his career in finance and management. During the last 10 years he has been responsible for managing the corporate planning processes at the Norwegian Post.  Now developing and implementing their model of managing continuous improvements, using rolling forecasts.

Thomas Otter is a research vice president in Gartner Research. He covers human capital management (HCM) trends and technologies, including core HR, payroll, talent management and workforce analytics. As part of this research, Mr. Otter analyzes organizational models, such as shared services and business process outsourcing, and he has a strong interest in how emerging technologies such as social software can improve HR and organizational performance. Mr. Otter also covers European HCM compliance issues, such as data protection law. He was Gartner's lead analyst on SAP from 2009 to 2011.

Jon Page is EMC Consulting’s subject matter expert on deployment and usage of Big Data and Analytics solutions. Jon advises clients on BI Strategy, Data Warehousing solutions, project planning and management, business driven data modeling, Data Governance and implementing organization structures, roles and responsibilities. Prior to EMC, Jon was the Vice President for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing in Oracle EMEA, he also spent some time with HP leading their Neoview pre-sales effort. Jon was also a founder member of Teradata Europe where he built the Professional Services Group.

Christoph is passionate about Business Analytics. He is in charge of working with IBM's customers on researching, delivering and communicating best practices in the area of Business Analytics and Financial Performance Management. Before assuming this role, Christoph spent several years building up the Cognos services practice for the US Pacific Northwest. He started his career as a management consultant at KPMG where he advised clients in the areas of Finance Transformation and Performance Management.

Massimo Pellegrino leads the Enterprise Information Solutions (EIS) division in HP Enterprise Services. The organization is focused on providing HP clients with enterprise information and intelligence solutions to solve some of their most pressing business problems. Massimo is an inspired leader who has both the credentials and passion required for building an empowered organization focused on establishing HP as the undisputed leader in the information management space. He has two decades of management experience in IT and Professional Services and is fluent in both English and Spanish. Previously, Massimo held the position of VP and General Manager of BIS in EMEA where he directed HP’s Business Intelligence effort with great success. Prior to joining HP, he held the position of Area Vice President for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa at NCR/Teradata where he developed data warehousing growth strategies by country for the telecommunications, financial services, retail and manufacturing industries. Massimo holds a degree from Padua University. He is based in Milan, Italy.

James (Jamie) M. Popkin is the managing vice president of the Gartner for Technical Professionals Data Management Strategies team. He is also a Gartner Fellow Emeritus and chairman of Gartner U.S. Symposium/ITxpo. Mr. Popkin is currently covering text analytics, e-discovery, business analytics and information modeling topics with a background in search, enterprise content management, business intelligence and social software topics. He previously managed the IT Leaders Business Intelligence and Information Management Research group and was involved in the development of the Pattern-Based Strategy (PBS) research theme. Mr. Popkin can discuss business intelligence, performance management, data management and integration, and PBS topics. He also ran Gartner Research in Asia/Pacific and Japan, is the co-author of "IT and the East: How China and India are Altering the Future of Technology and Innovation" and was the founder of the Gartner China Outsourcing Summit. From this experience Mr. Popkin can discuss the ICT industries of China and India.

Over 20 years information technology experience focusing on the design and development of software systems Aimia (UK): Head of IT for Aimia’s Intelligent Shopper Solutions division responsible for design, development, delivery and support of all IT systems and infrastructure. Project managed the build of Self Serve, Aimia’s retail data analytics reporting system. TIS Worldwide (USA): Project Managed the design and delivery of several ‘dot-com’ era websites and data warehouses Almedica Technology Group (USA): Director of Software Development for a pharmaceutical software company

Nigel Rayner is a vice president in Gartner Research, where he covers financial management applications and how finance systems impact the role of the CFO and the finance function. With more than 30 years of finance and business application experience, Mr. Rayner is an acknowledged expert on how to deploy financial management applications as part of an ERP strategy. His research also focuses on ERP instance consolidation and the implementation of shared services for finance.

James Richardson is a research director at Gartner, where he focuses on business intelligence (BI) and performance management.

Lyn Robison is a research vice president in the Data Management Strategies team of the Technical Professionals research group. Mr. Robison provides guidance on topics including data mobility, mobile data strategy, BI and mobility, master data management, data clouds, unstructured and semistructured data management, metadata management, and information quality.

Daniel Rodriguez Sierra joined the Business Intelligence Division of Telefónica Group eleven years ago. He has managed the implementation of EDW solutions at Telefónica’s operating bases worldwide. Daniel currently helms the group’s Global BI Technology domain, assessing operators in BI processes and BI architecture, contributing to BI standard-setting initiatives, conducting research and developing universal solutions and a homogeneous infrastructure.

Paul Rodwick is the vice president of product management, Oracle Business Intelligence at Oracle. Mr. Rodwick brings to Oracle over 20 years of diverse marketing, product development, and business leadership, as well as experience serving worldwide markets including EMEA and Japan. He is responsible for product strategy and delivery for Oracle's BI products, including BI tools and infrastructure, multi-source analytic applications, and predictive analytics technology and applications.

Jason Rose is head of business intelligence (BI) solution marketing at SAP. Jason leads the go to market activities for the industry’s leading on premise and cloud based BI solutions: SAP BusinessObjects. With over 12 years of experience in BI and performance management Jason is able to drive crisp customer communications, tailor market messages and grow SAP’s thought leadership position in BI. Joining Business Objects in 2005 and holding leadership positions in both sales and marketing, Jason has been helping customers solve critical business issues through the application of information and putting in place the right incentives. Jason is a frequent speaker at conferences, and analyst events on analytics and the impact of information on corporate performance and decision making.

Saptarshi Routh is an associate director with Gartner Consulting. His expertise is primarily around business-IT alignment, IT strategy and governance, enterprise applications, and business intelligence strategies. He is also focused on supporting clients to understand implications and align their IT initiatives against key disruptive technology trends, such as cloud, social computing and mobility. He works across a wide range of industries including financial and professional services, public sector, and a variety of commercial and industrial sectors such as telecommunications, technology, pharmaceuticals, mining, manufacturing and logistics.

Rita Sallam is a research vice president at Gartner, where she focuses on business intelligence (BI), analytics and performance management. This includes writing about and advising organizations on market trends, vendors and best practices. Of particular interest is advanced analytics on diverse data and an emerging area that Gartner is calling collaborative decision making, which is the convergence of technologies that improve the quality and transparency of decisions.

Kurt Schlegel is the agenda manager for Gartner's Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management research agenda.

Ryan Schmiedl leads a product management organization which is responsible for overall product direction for SAS' core technology portfolio: Business Intelligence, Data Management, Analytics and Decision Sciences. Ryan and teams work closely with SAS’ Research and Development and Sales organizations to ensure SAS offerings are aligned with customer and market demand. Previously, Ryan held leadership positions in SAS' Professional Services and Finance Services Practice. While at SAS, he has led the development of a variety of high profile analytic solutions for clients. His areas of expertise include software development, distributed and parallel computing, real-time systems, and applied analytics. He received an engineering degree and MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mr. Siegel has been leading and managing enterprise scale technology innovation programs in both transactional and decision support systems for more than 17 years. His experience in information management, vendor management, process reengineering, and application development spans a number of leadership roles at such firms as Pfizer, Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Gateway, Inc., Science Applications International Corporation, and The Insight Group, Inc. Currently, Mr. Siegel heads the Enterprise Information Delivery COE at Avon Products, Inc. In this role, he is responsible for managing large, global teams that architect, develop, and deliver complex business intelligence applications as well as application support programs for all Avon functions and geographies.

Dan Sommer is an analyst in Gartner's Technology & Service Provider Research group, where he is a member of the software team in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), with his prime responsibility being the lead for business intelligence markets. Mr. Sommer joined Gartner in January 2005 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Joao Tapadinhas is a research director at Gartner, focused on business intelligence (BI), analytics and performance management.

With first-rate account management and VP level credentials in the technology sector, Niall has developed the NeutrinoBI partner and customer engagement strategy. He leads the team in using their skills to identify and develop business opportunities and revenue plans. Easy to talk to and work with, Niall takes time to understand customers’ requirements and is a passionate customer advocate within the company. Before joining NeutrinoBI, Niall was Senior VP and General Manager of i2 International, Senior Manager at Detica, National Sales Manager of SunGard and Regional Account Manager at Siemens. Niall is also currently the Managing Director of Morgan Aquila.

Arzu Umur is CRM and Campaign Director, responsible for Analytical and Operational CRM and Database Marketing activities for all channels in Yapı Kredi Bank since November 2009. She is responsible for implementing and maintaining database marketing, datamining, contact management infrastructures. She is also driving the activities in order to ensure the usage of CRM system and solutions in all bank. Since 2004, Arzu Umur has been working in Yapı Kredi Bank in different positions. Before joining Yapı Kredi, Arzu Umur was an actuary at an international insurance company.

Jef van der WEE, CIO and advisor business strategy development at the Flemish Department of Work & Social Economy Jef Van der Wee is since 2006 CIO and advisor business strategy development at the Flemish Department of Work & Social Economy. In this role he is responsible for a challenging IT-investment program for building a better service for both internal clients as the public. Working with both business & IT makes that he as a broad business insight and brings this together in his daily work. Prior to his role as CIO he worked 5 years as policy advisor in the Flemish Employment Administration. Jef owns a master in Labour Sociology from the Leuven University and a degree in business administration of the Leuven Postgraduate School.

Ivo Weterings is an associate director in Gartner's Consulting department. He has more than 10 years of consulting experience in business intelligence, application development and implementation, ERP systems, change management, IT strategy, IT governance, and architecture. Mr. Weterings joined Gartner in 2007 and worked mainly for clients in the financial services industry and public sector.

Andrew White is a research vice president, and his primary research focus is master data management (MDM). He specializes in the drill-down topic of creating the "single version of the product" using MDM of product data. Mr. White has a strong background in supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and multienterprise collaboration. His roles include key initiative lead for information governance and MDM programs, as well as back-up agenda manager for information management, and he also chairs the U.S. MDM summits. Mr. White received the Gartner Thought Leadership Award in 2006 for his effort in pioneering Gartner's research in enterprise information management that led to MDM.

Eric Yau, Vice President, Business Intelligence and Performance Management, has primary responsibility for driving sustainable growth through the delivery of market-leading Business Intelligence and Performance Management products; investment planning and market requirements; and engagement and support of sales teams to help facilitate growth and solution success on a global scale. Prior to joining Cognos, Eric was Chief Executive Officer of Juice Software and also held key leadership positions with SAS.