Matthias Leybold

Matthias Leybold has over 8 years experience in the field of information management, primarily dealing with unstructured content.  He is currently a Senior Manager at Deloitte in Switzerland.

His areas of key interest and expertise include enterprise search and the analysis of natural language as well as enterprise communications which deals with the whole value chain from template management for document driven processes, document creation at runtime and, finally, multi-channel publishing of these documents. In addition to leading the Swiss ECM practice at Deloitte Consulting, he most often acts as engagement manager or subject matter expert.

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Steve Ardire

For the past 15+ years, Steve has provided incisive business strategy and development, product marketing, and sales consulting services to ‘disruptive’ early stage software startups mainly in semantic enterprise, knowledge discovery, enterprise information management, E2.0 and related space.

Steve’s core strength is to establish value— defined through the customer — as the guiding mind-set for all customer interactions.

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Kathy Hunter

Ms. Hunter has over twenty years information systems experience and, twelve years ago attended training in Information Quality Improvements. Soon after, she instituted an Enterprise Information Quality Division at T-Mobile. In their first three months they recovered £10 million in lost annual earnings, providing a quick 800% return on investment against the team’s two year budget and that was only the beginning. 

Olga Maydanchik

Olga Maydanchik is an experienced consultant and practitioner in the field of data quality. Olga was involved in more than 20 large-scale data conversion, consolidation, and cleansing projects. Her clients include such household names as Kimberly-Clark, Sprint, and Verizon. Prior to starting Data Quality Group, Olga was a senior partner at Arkidata Corp.  She holds MS degrees from Moscow State University and Wayne State University.

Steve is the Chief Strategy Officer for Datanomic. Steve has more than 20 years IT experience, 14 of which have been gained specifically in data quality management. During his career, Steve has improved data quality for organizations including BT, Thomas Cook, Credit Suisse, Norwich Union and the Inland Revenue.  Steve has also held a number of senior IT roles including manager of products and services at data management specialist Kognitio and Managing Director of Tranato, a specialist data quality consultancy acquired by Datanomic in 2006.

Steve is a Charter Member of the International Association of Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ – www.iaidq.org) and Secretary of its UK Community of Practice.

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John Platten

John Platten is the CEO and Principal Consultant of Vivamex Limited a data quality, data migration, data warehousing and data management consultancy. John has worked in IT for over 20 years and began building data warehouses around 1995 when the concept was relatively new. 

His clients have included T-Mobile, GlaxoSmithkline, BP, and Shell where he has led data quality, data warehouse and ERP migrations into SAP projects.

Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas has 20 years of experience in the IT industry; spanning business intelligence, financial systems, change management and many other areas.

Having spent the first eight years of his career as a manager in a UK software house, more recently he has developed award-winning data warehousing / business intelligence solutions that have been deployed in the European and Latin American operations of a large, multinational insurance organisation.

Peter has run several specific data quality initiatives and of course ensuring the quality of data is a major part of any successful BI project.

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Andrew Brooks

Andrew is a seasoned Business Information & Data ‘change agent’ – influencing and delivering fundamental changes in the way in which organisations understand, govern and exploit their information and data assets.

Andrew’s innate ability to ‘grasp the thorns’ of complex, wide-ranging, and often ambiguous business process, technology, people and information/data issues has developed his reputation as a highly effective Information Management trouble-shooter at organisations including T-Mobile, Vodafone, Mannesman, AT&T, Tesco, Abbey National Bank, Ofcom and Toyota.

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Bryn Davies

Bryn Davies has over 23 years of broad industry experience in IT and in particular Data Management. In addition to designing, building and managing one of the first data warehouses in SA, he spent 14 years with Sybase South Africa as Technical Director and later Regional Manager for the Cape Town operation. During this time, he was involved in all aspects of Business Intelligence, data management, enterprise application and data integration, and data and information quality.

He was also product and solutions manager for leading data quality software solutions, and managed numerous consulting exercises at SA companies for data quality, data integration and BI.

Subsequently Bryn co-founded InfoBlueprint and he is currently Managing Director of the company, which is dedicated to providing leading professional services in the fields of Information Management and Data Quality. He has presented and authored a number of articles on the subject of data quality.

Nathan Jones

Nathan Jones is a Manager in Deloitte’s Information Management & Integration practice in London, specialising in information quality and enterprise data management.

He has focused on operational business intelligence, data management, data quality and data warehousing for nearly 10 years, and worked with clients from blue chip energy and finance firms through SME’s to large and small public sector organisations.

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