Gartner Master Data Management Summit

Christophe Barriolade, President & CEO, Orchestra Networks Christophe Barriolade is President and Chief Executive Officer of Orchestra Networks, a leading and independent master data management software vendor. Orchestra Networks’ solutions enables business and technology users to develop, use and enrich their most important asset—data. He co-founded Orchestra Networks in 2000 and has helped develop what is becoming one of most recognizable pure play MDM brands in today's market. Responsible for the direction and strategy of the company, Barriolade brings significant insight in the benefits of applying data governance using MDM, shared from his working relationships with some of World's largest corporations.

As the Head of Global Commercial Data, Sarah has built a new data governance organisation capability in support of the new Commercial and Supply Chain Operating Model. The capability establishes a new approach to data governance, standardisation, harmonistion and quality for GSK as part of its Core Business Services. In collaboration with IT, Sarah has provided the business leadership for the SAP MDM & BPM solution being delivered alongside the ERP transformation programme. Sarah’s career includes leadership roles in GSK’s Financial Trading Company as Director for Data Operations and New Business Integration, Supply Chain Process Consultant and Business Change Lead in two major transformation projects within Supply Chain.

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.

Having been with Gartner for more than 17 years, Michael Blechar is vice president and distinguished analyst in the Information Management Research area of Gartner's Research and Advisory Services. Mr. Blechar specializes in the area of metadata management/repositories, information and data services from a service-oriented architecture (SOA) perspective, master data management (MDM) design of services, data modeling tools, solution and application architecture roles and responsibilities, business and IT collaboration, information analysis and design, technology life cycle risks, and the IT Market Clock brand of Gartner research.

Regina Casonato is managing vice president in Gartner Research. Ms. Casonato manages the Information Management research team, which focuses on technologies, tools and approaches that provide for consistent access, organization, delivery and governance of structured and unstructured information to all consumers (users, applications, processes and so forth). The Information Management team supports five key Gartner research agendas: Data Management and Integration, Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Content Management, Master Data Management Business Intelligence and Information Management, and People-Centered Computing. Ms. Casonato is also Gartner country leader for Italy.

John Dixon, a Gartner Research director, researches BPM methodologies and supporting technologies across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with the intent of providing practical, implementable solutions for Gartner clients.

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

Alex Freund is an MDM Project manager in Sanofi R&D. He has been managing projects for more than 10 years. He has been dealing with MDM solutions for 3 years and has ensured Master Data projects success by implementing a Master Data governance framework.

Ted Friedman is a vice president in Gartner Research, where he is a member of the Information Management team. His research focuses on data integration, data quality, information governance and information management strategy.

Paul Fulton is VP of Data Governance at Visa Europe. He is responsible for setting and agreeing data policies and processes and day to day running of Visa Europe’s data governance function. This covers data quality management, security, compliance, definitions and master data management in a BI context. He is responsible for ensuring trusted data in a warehouse containing over 20 billion records. Paul has worked in BI and data management for over 10 years, with a range of high data volume businesses in a consultant and end user capacity. He started work with Accenture within their customer data management practice assisting retail and telecomunication clients in BI and CRM transformation programmes before moving to Yell Group as their Enterprise BI and Data Architect. Paul holds a masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University.

Arthur Gebhard has been employed at Océ since 2001, first as International Product Market Manager and since 2007 as Director of the Océ Global Master Data Organization. Prior to joining Océ he worked for 10 years in the aerospace industry. Throughout his career he has focused on connecting business needs with technology, and on addressing customer needs through new processes and working methods. He earned an MSc degree from the University of Delft in 1991 and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management in1998.

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.

Terry Hunter has built solutions and delivered expertise on market leading electronic trading platforms, B2B end to end retail solutions, B2C ecommerce sites, Deal Settlement systems for the financial markets, Market Data systems, Customer Services application for call centres and Multi Channel Retail Systems.

Dividing his time between North America, Europe and Asia, Former Stockbroker turned Author and Speaker, Mark Jeffries, is invited to speak at and moderate major corporate conventions, conferences and meetings. Jeffries offers a valuable and extremely relevant toolbox of innovative and instantly useable communication ideas designed to help you refine the way you communicate, negotiate, network, and connect with your clients, customers and colleagues. Working with organizations that include: Microsoft, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, CA Technologies, HP, Nexen, Boeing, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Canada. Mark introduces instantly useable ideas and techniques deployable within any business situation. From building and maintaining valuable relationships to the subtleties of word power and the secrets of planting ideas, accumulating payback credits and leveraging networking secrets, Jeffries shares how the intangible skills of tailored-communication are always the ones that build your influence, win new clients and grow sustainable revenue.

Neal started his career in Industry working for British Steel but moved across to TSB Bank in 1988. He has spent that past 23 years working for Lloyds TSB in a number of senior positions in General Insurance, Wealth management, IT, Change management and Operations. His most recent roles were as the Director of Operations for the Lloyds TSB retail network and delivering the integration of the Savings businesses across Lloyds Banking Group (LBG). He led the delivery of the Single Customer View programme across LBG and has recently left LBG to become an independent banking consultant.

Sakari “Sakke” Jorma was at the end of 2011 leading Nokia Master Data management in a very challenging environment and now in the middle of moving to new challenges. His main areas of expertise are business value of Master Data, Implementation methodologies and link between Business process and MDM. He also has worked in Sales development (CRM) and Product Lifecycle management (PLM) areas for years. He is also very experienced in People & Behavior change Management for implementing better business processes, IT tools and methodologies.

Debra Logan is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. She covers information governance, e-discovery, legacy information management and strategic information management, along with new and emerging roles in the digital economy. She is currently working on topics including information archiving, information retention management, strategic information management and e-discovery market trends.

Aaron Mahimainathan is Vice President, master data management and governance solutions for SAP. In this role, he focuses on strategy definition and GTM for enterprise information management and master data management portfolio. Previously he held positions in solution marketing and product management including marketing, product strategy and definition of the SAP MDM product. He has over 15 years of experience in product marketing, product management, product strategy and technology consulting. Prior to Joining SAP, Mr. Mahimainathan was lead product manager at Siebel Systems as part of their customer data integration (CDI) solution. Prior to Siebel, he held senior consulting management positions at Oracle Corp. where he led several implementation projects for Oracle’s ERP and CRM solutions with focus on the telecommunication industry. He has authored and spoken widely on information management trends and technologies. Mr. Mahimainathan holds a MBA from University of California, Berkeley and a MS in Engineering from State University of New York, Syracuse.

Bill O'Kane is a research director in the area of master data management (MDM) on the Information Management team within Gartner Research. He provides expertise and advice to Gartner's clients and staff in regard to MDM program management, MDM vendors and technologies, MDM implementation styles, and MDM's role within an overall enterprise information management (EIM) strategy, including data governance implementations.

Steve heads up the European arm of Cognizant's MDM Practice that has grown to more than 700 practitioners globally. His experience of Information Management spans more than 20 years working with some of the largest corporations worldwide. His passion for MDM stems from encouraging organizations to recognize and get value from their information assets in such companies as Shell, Unilever, JPMorgan, Wärtsilä, Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemicals, as well as a number of software vendors. Steve has worked on many successful MDM initiatives enabling business transformation, regulatory compliance and analytics. 2011 has been an exciting year with many new MDM projects: 2012 looks set to be just as interesting with data governance, the cloud and organizations building their own Centres of Excellence all topics catching the imagination.

John Radcliffe is a research vice president at Gartner in the information management team. His main research focus is master data management (MDM), with a special emphasis on MDM for customer data and creating the "single view of the customer." He has served as chair of Gartner's U.S. and EMEA MDM Summits and was lead author of Gartner's Seven Building Blocks of MDM. He analyzes and comments on the MDM market and helps clients achieve successful MDM programs.

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.

Andrew Schulze is the Group Data Architect for Royal Dutch Shell, where he is currently involved in a number of enterprise wide projects, including the development and implementation of an enterprise data model, an MI strategy, the creation of an enterprise MDM service, a data quality strategy and a meta data strategy. Andrew has deployed solutions in most of the data architecture disciplines, including BI, MDM and data quality. His background includes work in the public sector and extensive time in the financial services industry. Andrew established and managed the data architecture team in JPMorgan’s WSS division. While there he defined a master data management strategy and addressed a number of data quality issues.

Michael W. Smith is a vice president in Gartner Research, focusing on the value of IT. Mr. Smith's principal responsibilities include the development of business performance frameworks and methodologies to help organizations evaluate IT-enabled business initiatives. Mr. Smith's published research covers topics involving how to use business methodologies such as Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma to demonstrate the business value of IT. Mr. Smith conducts workshops and assessments for Gartner clients and prospects.

Bill Swanton comes to Gartner through the AMR Research acquisition and brings more than 31 years of enterprise manufacturing expertise to his role as VP and distinguished analyst. Mr. Swanton covers application strategy and the business value of IT, including IT benefit realization techniques used by Fortune 1000 companies to expand the value they receive from their ERP and other applications investments. Recent areas of focus have been application organization maturity (ITScore), BPM for ERP, and MDM for ERP. Mr. Swanton has also analyzed the high-tech and discrete industries, with a specific focus on how brand owners, contract manufacturers, and other suppliers manage global demand-driven supply networks (DDSNs). His tenure at AMR Research enabled him to work in a variety of roles at the company. He built the manufacturing strategies service from a single analyst to a team of vertical-industry specialists covering aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical, CPG, high tech, and life sciences. In this role, he led the development of the firm's REPAC model of manufacturing processes. Mr. Swanton also launched AMR Research's product life cycle management coverage in 1997 and continues to follow its role in the larger enterprise architecture.

For the last seven years Koen Van Impe has worked at Umicore specializing in Enterprise Data Management and Enterprise Architecture. Prior to that Koen spent eight years at Accenture specialising in a.o. IT Strategy, and 3 years at Procter & Gamble in the Finance & Accounting function.

Elsje Verdoodt holds a degree of Applied Economics of the University of Leuven and a Master in Financial Management of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. She started her career in Umicore in 1995 and has been working in Audit and Controlling. Since 2002, she is Group Credit Manager of Umicore.

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.

Dr. Wolfgang Wiese is Application Owner for Master Data Management and Material Master at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. In this role, he is responsible for the corporate MDM applications managing Material Master, Value Chains, Projects and Financial Master Data from the IT perspective. Additionally, he is responsible for the Material Master in the global ERP systems. He has over ten years experience in development of master data applications for various types of master data like material, bill of material or routing. Dr Wiese holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.