Graham Rhind

Graham Rhind has specialised for over 16 years in international address and postal code methodologies. He started by building the European database of Scitex SA in Brussels, and then became Research and Development Director for OTS Group in The Netherlands. He is now an independent consultant and owner of GRC Database Information.

His researches have led him to write three books, “Building and Maintaining a European Direct Marketing Database” (1994) , “Global Source Book for Address Database Management” (1998, updated twice annually) and “Practical International Data Management – A guide to working with global names and addresses”(2001).

He is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, and has developed a range of software and reference data for optimal international address data standardisation, formatting, validation and de-duplication. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Internet Marketing in 2002.

Graham is a charter member of the International Association for Information and Data Quality.

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Erwin Meerman

Erwin Meerman has 20 years of experience in various IT roles in smaller and bigger companies. He started as a dBase programmer and Novell Network engineer, evolving into Object Oriented programming and SAP implementations.

For the last 10 years, Erwin has been working mainly in SAP projects, as implementation consultant, test coordinator and as project manager. Besides these more general roles, in SAP he is specialized in Master Data and in Planning and Production.

While being part of a global MDM project with an international tobacco company, his interest in MDM related topics grew. As a next step in his career, he has setup and currently leads the MDM department for SVZ Industrial Products in the Netherlands; A worldwide supplier of fruit and vegetable ingredients to the food industry.

His specialties in the world of master data are data governance, data architecture, organizational change management related to MDM and master data maintenance in SAP.

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Alberto Villari

Alberto Villari is a Charter Member of the IAIDQ.

He began his IT career in 1993, working as a Consultant Object Oriented Developer and later as a Database Analyst.

In 1998, he joined Bvlgari, the Rome-based multi-national firm that specializes in contemporary Italian jewelry and timepieces. His I/DQ career began in 2000 with the Bulgari Data Quality project; he later became the Data Quality Manager in 2002.

His project, Data Quality @ Bvlgari, was presented at the Data Management & Information Quality Conference (October 2003, London, UK) and at the DAMA International Symposium & Wilshire Meta-Data Conference (April 2003, Orlando Florida, USA).

Specialties:

Broad application of sound Data Quality principles, including organisational process revision, technology and software reccomendation, Data Quality accountabilities appointment, definition of Data Management Policies and Guidelines.

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Steve Sarsfield

Steve Sarsfield is a data governance business expert, speaker, author and blogger.

He is a product marketing professional at a major data quality vendor and author of the book “The Data Governance Imperative.”  He has held speaking engagements at events such as MIT Information Quality Symposium, the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ) Symposium and at SAP CRM 2006 summit.

Specialties:

• Strategic Business Planning & Development
• Enterprise Product Expertise
• Author of Book “Data Governance Imperative”
• Accomplished Speaker and Dale Carnegie Graduate
• Project and Budget Management

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John Morris

John Morris is a highly experienced Data Migration professional with a 25 year history in information technology.

For the last ten years he has specialised solely in delivering Data Migration projects. During that time he has worked on some of the biggest migration projects in the UK and for some of the major systems integrators.

John is the author of “Practical Data Migration” the top selling book on data migration published by the BCS (British Computing Society).

John’s personal blog on the BCS website is available here: John Morris – Practical Data Migration Blog.

John is a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and abroad. He is passionate about elevating Data Migration to the position it deserves as a skill-set and marketplace in its own right

In 2006 he co-founded Iergo as a specialist data migration consultancy. Iergo only specialise in Data Migration bringing their many years of experience to the problem domain.

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Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen

Henrik L. Sørensen is a Data Quality and Master Data Management professional also doing Data Architecture.

He has worked nearly 30 years in the IT business with a large range of business areas as government, insurance, manufacturing, membership, healthcare, public transportation and more.

Today he works with such companies as:

• DM Partner, an innovative Danish provider of customer data management services and related reference data
• Locus Informatik (part of Trapeze Europe), a specialized provider of solutions for public transportation
• Omikron Data Quality, a leading European based data quality tool vendor

Prior to, he worked as an independent consultant with implementation of advanced data matching solutions at Dun & Bradstreet, Experian and other global as well as local leading service providers and organizations.

Sørensen is a charter member of IAIDQ (International Association of Information and Data Quality).

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Ed Wrazen

Ed Wrazen is vice president product marketing with Harte-Hanks Trillium Software, a leading provider of total data quality solutions.

Ed started his career as a computer programmer working on retail banking and travel reservation systems and has over 30 years of experience in Information Technology in a variety of roles.

During the 1980s, he worked with Dr Codd & Chris Date, the leading relational database pioneers, where he consulted and lectured on database technologies.

In the last 20 years, he has worked with a number of leading consulting and software companies, specialising in data architecture, data migration, data quality and performance management.

He is a frequent industry presenter and author on data management and data quality related topics.

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Felipe Flores

Felipe Flores, CEO of Clear Blue Water,  has spent his career helping clients uncover the hidden value in their business data. He has acted as a consultant, advisor and manager in a wide array of projects in multiple industries. Felipe has worked with clients in the real estate, mining and telecommunications industries. He specialises in rapidly identifying opportunities to apply innovative technologies to solve business problems.

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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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Dan Power

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

Prior to founding Hub Solution Designs, he was the general manager for Dun & Bradstreet’s strategic alliance with Oracle Corporation.

Mr. Power has twenty years of experience in management consulting, enterprise applications, strategic alliances, marketing, corporate strategy, project management and entrepreneurship at companies like Deloitte & Touche, Computer Sciences Corporation, eCredit and Parson Consulting.

He has worked with Oracle’s MDM, ERP and CRM platforms for more than twelve years. He is frequently an invited speaker at technology conferences and has written several articles for publications such as DM Review. He regularly advises clients on developing & implementing high impact MDM strategies.

He studied Computer Science at Princeton University, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College in Wellesley, MA.

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