Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited.  As an analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence / analytics, data management, big data and enterprise architecture.  With over 35 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on business intelligence strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture and data management.  He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles.  Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at Teradata on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates.  He teaches popular master classes in Big Data, Predictive and Advanced Analytics, Fast Data and Real-time Analytics, Enterprise Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Virtualisation, Building an Enterprise Data Lake and Enterprise Architecture.  Follow Mike on Twitter @mikeferguson1.

Nigel Turner is Principal Information Management Consultant for EMEA at Global Data Strategy Ltd. and Vice-Chair of the Data Management Association of the UK.  Nigel has worked in Information Management for over 25 years, both as an in-house implementer of Information Management solutions at British Telecommunications plc and subsequently as an external consultant to more than 150 clients, including the Environment Agency, British Gas, HSBC, Intel US and others.  Follow Nigel @@NigelTurner8

Ian Wallis is Head of Data, Analytics & Insight (DA&I) at the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). DA&I’s role is to transform DIO into a data-driven, evidence-based organisation to support efficient use of £3.5bn of annual spending to enable the armed forces to live, work and train. Ian’s remit encompasses data management, business intelligence, MI and reporting, analytics and insight.  Ian has nearly thirty years’ experience in this field and has managed programmes in blue chip organisations, including data warehouse projects at organisations including Centrica and BBC. He has led analytics teams at HSBC, Royal Mail and The Pensions Regulator and delivered data management programmes at Thomson Reuters, Barclays and Arqiva.  Ian works for Aecom and is deployed through the Strategic Business Partner arrangement which has insourced private sector expertise to transform the DIO. Prior to this, Ian worked as an interim manager through his own company, Data Strategists.

Godfrey Morgan is the Head of Data Governance working within the Data, Analytics and Insight team, at the Defence Infrastructure Organisation. The DIO has the responsibility for the management of property, infrastructure and related services to ensure strategic management of the defence estate as a whole, optimising investment and critically supporting military capability to the best effect. He is responsible for implementing a Data Governance framework working with Data Owners and Data Stewards to embed the value of data as a corporate asset through data ownership, data quality, and the usage and understanding of uniform data standards.. His responsibilities also include working with external industry suppliers to ensure data matching and verification of key defence asset data. Godfrey has experience of working in Data Governance for a number of large financial services and asset management organisations over the last sixteen years.

Lars Nordwall was born and raised in Stockholm, and has lived in Silicon Valley since 1998. Mr. Nordwall joined Neo Technology early 2011 as the COO, and has transformed the company from an early stage European based start-up to one of the rising stars in Silicon Valley.  His track record includes: (1) A turn-around and transformation of Pentaho from a flat-lined struggling Business Intelligence software provider to a leader in the Big Data Analytics space. The company was acquired by Hitachi for $600M; (2) SugarCRM where he joined as the founding VP of WW Sales, and established the firm to become one of the global SaaS CRM leaders; and (3) Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), where he built his career foundation and was fortunate to experience rapid growth from 400 to 6,500 employees, transformation to one of the hottest consultancy firms in the world with a market cap over >$5B, followed by an acquisition by Novell.  Mr. Nordwall has an M.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Stockholm University School of Business, and he has completed an Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School in Boston.

Neil Storkey is an independent consultant specialising in enterprise data and information management strategies with a focus on trust, integrity and sustainability of information assets. Neil started his data journey as an accountant back in 1991, where consolidation and reporting of financial management information depended on consistent quality data.  25 years on, he has lead and delivered change management programs in large global enterprises shifting the onus of accountability of data and information away from IT. These enterprise programs included BW / BI, MDM strategies, business change management, Data and Information strategies, all based on establishing business lead working practices around standards, stewardship, governance, organisation and quality.  His strategies have been recognised as industry leading and innovative which challenge established data management practices.  Neil’s career following the data has allowed him to experience industries in motor manufacturing, financial services, recruitment, telecommunications, mobile telephony, tobacco and Hydrocarbons.  His challenge to everyone is to lose the tag of ‘ownership’; we are but custodians of company data.

Dana Julinschi currently leads an ambitious programme to implement company-wide master data governance, together with data quality processes and KPIs.  Throughout the past eight years she has been part of several MDM implementation projects in different industries with a strong focus on change management within governance organisations, MDM maturity assessments, data quality KPIs and data maintenance processes.  The overall goal of each of her projects is to turn master data management into a way of living for the organisations.

Christopher Bradley has spent 35 years in the forefront of the Information Management field, working for leading organisations in Information Management Strategy, Data Governance, Data Quality, Information Assurance, Master Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence.   Chris is an independent Information Strategist & recognised thought leader.  Recently he has delivered a comprehensive appraisal of Information Management practices at an Oil & Gas super major, Data Governance strategy for a Global Pharma, and Information Management training for Finance & Utilities companies.  Chris guides Global organizations on Information Strategy, Data Governance, Information Management best practice and how organisations can genuinely manage Information as a critical corporate asset.  Frequently he is engaged to evangelise the Information Management and Data Governance message to Executive management, introduce data governance and new business processes for Information Management and to deliver training and mentoring.  Chris is Director of the E&P standards committee “DMBoard”, an officer of DAMA International, an author of the DMBoK 2.0, a member of the Meta Data Professionals Organisation (MPO) and a holder at “master” level and examiner for the DAMA CDMP professional certification. Chris is an acknowledged thought leader in Data Governance, author of several papers and books, and an expert judge on the annual Data Governance best practice awards. Follow Christopher on Twitter @inforacer.

Malcolm Chisholm has over 25 years’ experience in data management, and has worked in a variety of sectors, with a concentration on finance.   He is an independent consultant specializing in data governance, master/reference data management, metadata engineering, and the organization of Enterprise Information Management.  Malcolm has authored the books: “Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases”; “How to Build a Business Rules Engine”; and “Definitions in Information Management”.  He was awarded the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award for contributions to Master Data Management.  He holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol.

Martin Oberhofer is a certified Executive Architect at IBM and a certified Distinguished Architect with The Open Group with 15+ years of experience in information management and 10+ years in the areas of master data management, information integration, data lakes and information governance. Between 2006 and 2015 he advised many of IBM’s largest customers on these topics. Since 2016 he is the responsible development architect for IBM’s on-prem MDM product portfolio. He co-authored several books on MDM and enterprise information architecture, contributed as inventor to over 70 patent applications and speaks regularly at conferences every year since 2006.

Lena Woolf is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at IBM with 15+ years of experience in the master data management and entity analytics area. Lena provides thought leadership advise to IBM customers worldwide on MDM, entity analytics and information governance solutions. She is the development architect for IBM’s cloud MDM solutions. Lena regular speaks at conferences since many years. She authored articles on master data management. As inventor, Lena contributed to many patents and constantly pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with MDM technology – a recent example includes adding graph technologies to IBM’s MDM capabilities.

Mar Cabra, Spain, is the head of the Data & Research Unit, which produces the organization’s key data work and also develops tools for better collaborative investigative journalism. She has been an ICIJ staff member since 2011, and is also a member of the network.  Mar fell in love with data while being a Fulbright scholar and fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in 2009/2010. Since then, she’s promoted data journalism in her native Spain, co-creating the first ever masters degree on investigative reporting, data journalism and visualization and the national data journalism conference, which gathers more than 500 people every year. She previously worked in television (BBC, CCN+ and laSexta Noticias) and her work has been featured in the International Herald Tribune, The Huffington Post, PBS, El País, El Mundo or El Confidencial, among others. In 2012 she received the Spanish Larra Award to the country’s most promising journalist under 30.

Dr. Andreas Reichert is Partner at CDQ AG heading the consultancy services of the company. Dr. Reichert has been working on governance topics for MDM for more than 12 years. The focus of his work is supporting enterprises in designing master data strategies, setting up governance structures, and transferring project results into business operations. Prior to his role at CDQ, he worked as a business consultant at SAP for several years supporting companies in setting up business process structures for large ERP transformations.  Dr. Reichert holds a Ph.D. in Information Management as well as two Master’s degrees in Information Management and Technology Management.

David Walder leads Oxford University Press’ Insight and Marketing Technology program supporting 200 marketers worldwide. He has been instrumental in creating a transatlantic team to introduce new marketing systems; target direct marketing; undertake market research and provide deep, actionable customer analytics.  Prior to his current role, he was Managing Director of ScoreStore Music,Ltd, an online retailer.  After an early career in management consultancy, David held numerous positions with Microsoft spanning technical consultancy, pre-sales and management. His final position at Microsoft was as head of the Customer Systems Group where he led the design and development of innovative marketing databases and associated sales management tools. David holds a Masters in Engineering and Computer Science from Cambridge University.

Birgitte Yde is an enterprise architect with more than 25 years of experience in IT and business development. She holds a degree in electronic engineering. After some years working with electronic apparatus, requirements and reliability Birgitte started her IT career at the Technical University of Denmark as a teacher in software development and database design. The last 15 years she has worked at ATP as IT specialist, IT architect, business developer, business architect and enterprise architect, with main interest in information and data architecture. Birgitte Yde is ATP’s representative in the Danish governmental basic data program as leading end user. Follow Birgitte on Twitter @birgitteyde.

Louise Pagh Covenas has 16 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, where she worked with business improvement and customer satisfaction, starting from correct data registrations to customer care. In 2014 Louise got the opportunity to work more intensely with Masterdata Management and data quality, and is now Business manager for two MDM systems within ATP. Louise Pagh Covenas is ATP’s representative in the Danish governmental basic data program as leading end user, as well as ATP internal program manager.

Regine Deleu is a successful strategic transformation leader who aligns strategies, lay out business & technology -baseline & target architecture- perform gap analysis, reorient technology to fit business goals & processes. She has 30 years working experience. Regine is specialised in business innovation, data science, and business process optimisation.

Nic Gordon is an Associate Director based in the London office, he has nearly 25 years experience in Financial Services with a focus on Data and Analytics.

Nick Stammers is responsible for the growth and development of Ataccama’s UK & Northern European services business. Leading the delivery of solutions and services, Nick helps customers leverage the full potential of Ataccama’s solutions and has a particular focus on the (re)insurance market. Previously, Nick ran CMC Insurance, a specialist consulting firm delivering regulation, risk and finance programmes for the global (re)insurance market. Prior to joining CMC, Nick held a senior role at Pro Insurance Solutions, a specialist (re)insurance services provider. Nick also held senior roles at Concentra, a Business Intelligence and Analytics consulting firm and Serverside Group, a software firm delivering solutions in the banking sector.

Prior to joining Semarchy, Richard Branch held senior positions at Oracle and Informatica and established Sunopsis in the UK. He has worked in data management all his career, specializing in business intelligence, data warehousing and master data management.

Michael is a long-time data industry executive, who spends his days reinventing how technology can help improve business outcomes. An accomplished writer, speaker and blogger, he enjoys telling stories of ingenuity and innovation.

He currently runs marketing for Semarchy, the Intelligent Master Data Management company. In this role, he has worked to accentuate the smart, agile and measurable capabilities unique to the xDM solution.

Michael has held numerous leadership roles at large as well as growth organizations – IBM, MicroStrategy, Trifacta, Kognitio, Socure, Informix and Credit Suisse. He lives in New York and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Stuart Swindell is a Product Leader for Compliance & Supply at Dun & Bradstreet. He is responsible for the API and Data products to support customer challenges in the Compliance and Supplier space. With over 20 years industry experience with roles in both Product and Technology he has seen how ‘Big Data’ challenges in the B2B space need to solve real problems.

Nilesh Parmar is a Senior Enterprise Architect for Dell Boomi in EMEA. He has extensive experience in Data Management and more specifically in Data Integration-iPaaS. Nilesh has over 15 years of experience in helping organisations harness their information and transforming it into a strategic business asset. Previous to working at Dell Boomi Nilesh has held senior positions at Informatica, IBM and Lloyds TSB Insurance. Nilesh has a BSc in Computer Science from Cardiff University.

With more than 20 years of experience, René Meijers is a true expert in the area of master data and information management. For several international organizations, Mr. Meijers managed the design, implementation and daily operation of their global master data management programs. These solutions spanned multiple domains and industries. In September 2015, he joined SBM Offshore to establish and lead the Data & Information Management capability.  Previously, Mr. Meijers directed and managed global MDM programs at Zimmer Biomet and TNT-Cendris, and at other companies including Heineken, APG, and Philips. He earned his Masters degree in Business Economics from Maastricht University (NL) and his Bachelors degree in Commercial Economics from Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (NL).

Sharon Lankester is a Data Governance Leader at Dun & Bradstreet a leading global provider of business insight and analytics. Her responsibilities include managing the Data Governance Office, providing oversight to a robust data governance program that helps to streamline business process, data architecture, sustain data quality, and maintain a metadata program across the organization.

Kevin Smith is Head of Data Architecture for Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. Data Architecture maintains the target state vision for the company’s Data Assets.  Kevin partners with the business, CDO and technology leadership to deliver this vision, maintain standards and is a thought leader in Data Modelling, Data Quality, MDM and Data Governance.  Prior to joining Willis Towers Watson, he ran his own successful software consultancy.  Kevin received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire (UK).

An experienced and results-driven Chief Information Officer / IT Director with a successful background in improving IT service delivery in education, financial services and corporate sectors.
David Swayne takes a strategic approach to successful IT leadership, engaging with key business stakeholders and 3rd parties to deliver ‘cost appropriate’ IT solutions and business process change via emerging technology solutions.
David’s experience includes business change management, business transformation, IT service transition, IT strategies, technology roadmaps, stabilisation of systems, e-commerce, infrastructure renewal, shared service facilities, IT centralisation & systems integration, delivering added business value & ROI through the use of technology.

Joachim Bondeson is the Process Manager for Commercial Offer and Configuration at Volvo Penta.  He has a background as a technical editor in the area of sales information where a secret addiction to databases left him with a passion for information structures and data quality that turned into a career path.

Jan Lenders is an experienced Data Integration specialist, currently working at NL-based HAN University.  Mr. Lenders started his professional IT career in 1986, moving from data-centric programming and database design in the financial industry to data integration & distribution (DI&D).  He switched to HAN University in 2007, specialising in Data Integration; provisioning all major data streams to support operational business processes for 30,000 students and all staff involved.  Mr. lenders recently obtained a MSc in IT honours degree at the University of Liverpool, graduating on the subject of Data Integration and Distribution.

Markus Müller is leading a small team within DPD responsible for all activities around the topics Data Governance and Data Quality Management. One of the flagship projects was to introduce a single point of truth on master data via unique “Golden Records” and use that knowledge to optimize business processes and introduce new innovative products.  Prior to DPD, Mr. Müller was a Senior Software Engineer with Capgemini Technology Services and started as a software developer for Albat + Wirsam. He received his master’s degree in computer science from Hochschule Darmstadt.

Håkan Edvinsson is an author, trainer, speaker and consultant within data-driven Enterprise Architecture and Data Governance. Today, he is senior partner and the CTO of Informed Decisions.  He has practiced his information centric EA in large global industries, in medium-sized enterprises and in the public sector since the mid 1990ies. Håkan is the author of the best-selling “Enterprise Architecture Made Simple” book (Technics Publications 2013) and contributing author to the second edition of the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge.

John Morton advises CxOs, Directors and Business Managers on the capabilities and value of new methods and technologies in providing data driven business enhancing services. John has broad and deep experience in data creating digital business in established business and challenger businesses. John has been a key member of transformation boards in Financial Services, Central Government, Utilities and Telecommunications in both large and medium sized companies. John’s experience includes: Former Senior Director and regional CTO for SAS; CTO and Technical Assurance Advisor transforming legacy systems to multi-channel, multi-product services leveraging existing investment; on the Overall Design Authority for the delivery of transformation of IT systems in the UK National Health Service ;Innovation director and healthcare CTO for Intel, Rationalisation of Global MIS and data warehousing systems from over 40 separate data systems to three key information platforms; Worldwide CRM architecture for a Mobile Telecommunications company; to name a few.

Nigel Risner is a respected author, television presenter and a prolific speaker and the only motivational speaker in Europe to have been awarded Speaker of the Year from The Academy For Chief Executives, Vistage, Footdown and The Executive Committee. Nigel’s workshops and keynote speeches are results –oriented, challenging his listeners to expand their horizons, embrace the opportunities that await them and dare to dream of achievements which seemed impossible before.  Nigel speaks at over 150 conferences a year, in over 18 different countries. His recent clients include: BT, BSKYB, PFIZER, Pepsi-cola, GSK, Siemens, HSBC Bank, The Academy for Chief Executives and many more. He is one of only six speakers in the UK to have been awarded the highly prestigious PSAE (professional speaking award of excellence) from the Professional Speakers Association.

As Group Master Data Services Manager, a role at the interface of Business and IT, Bradley Smith is the key sponsor for the SAP MDG implementation in Meggitt, a UK-based global manufacturer of civil and military aerospace sub-systems with revenues of £1.6B and nearly 11,000 employees. His responsibilities include the development and deployment of Meggitt’s master data strategy, the successful rollout of MDG, evangelising the business value of quality data, and driving Meggitt’s maturity in Data Governance and MDM.  Moreover, Mr. Smith has global responsibility for the SAP ERP modules Manufacturing, Inventory & Plant Maintenance.  Prior to Meggitt, he held management roles at Ultra Electronics Controls and Global Orthopaedics.  Mr. Smith received his MSc in Technology / Business Management from Kingston University

Senior Master Data Governance Manager, Compliance and Systems at Coloplast since 2014.
Charlotte Gerlach Sylvest has been working with Master Data Management and Master Data Governance on both a strategic as well as an operational level since 2008 and has more than 15 years of experience with IT system implementations and process improvements in the cross field of IT and Business.

Rolf Emmens has a degree in Computer Science and IT Auditing. He has been in Data Management since early 2010. Rolf has substantive knowledge on the subject of data quality and has been implementing data governance at several organizations including Getronics and Schiphol. Within Schiphol Rolf is responsible for Asset Data Quality.

Within the Asset Management department, Stefan van der Weide, is responsible for the full scale of the Data Governance. Even including the data entry of the most valued data. Next to that he heads the team, who turns the data into real business value. This team consists of Business Process Engineers & Analysts and Data Scientist and Analists. Although improving the Data Quality is his primary target, he is inspired on a daily basis by the team working with the data. Combining business and data kwowledge is delivering value, even without the Data Quality always being on the correct level. Stefan started his career with Capgemini and has worked in various (project) management roles within the Royal Schiphol Group. He received his degree from the Rotterdam Business School, majoring in International Management with Cultural Antropology as a minor.

Jacqueline Harrison has worked to deliver data focused business change in several sectors including telecoms, finance, pensions, and fuel charge cards before joining National Grid in 2008.  In all of these, the same challenge exists: to establish sufficiently controlled and managed data to achieve a target business outcome.  As Data and Information Manager at National Grid, Jacqueline has been core to leading the case for change to establish improved data management in National Grid.  More recently, she has developed corporate wide Data Management principles, developed a suite of minimum standards and authored supporting guidelines to support business implementations.

John Holland has worked in IT for over 25 years with a focus on driving business transformation through better use of data.  His first experience of MDM processes was with a CRM deployment in a multinational business, requiring the integration of data from 20+ disparate structured and unstructured databases.  In recent work, he has been driving the integration of data to deliver an analytics capability in a public sector organisation.  His experience with building this data platform spans the challenges of diverse data sources, variable data quality and NoSQL databases.  John’s insight into these challenges envisages a future where emerging MDM technologies will provide a platform for delivering organisational transformation from improved understanding of internal and external data.

Alan has been working in the data industry for the last 27 years and in this time has held a wide number of analytical, consulting and sales roles. His latest challenge is working with Experian’s clients in terms of data integration to enable them to make improved decisions based on internal and external data, whilst keeping an eye on regulatory challenges. Alan has wide consulting experience having previously supported Experian’s global clients in terms of building multi-country databased systems which include the challenges of processing client data from Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Nordics, Europe and the US. Previous roles have included consulting and design of enterprise solutions in the UK, Head of the Financial Services teams in the UK, and Head of Consumer Insight Sales and Consulting team in Melbourne, Australia, covering the Asia Pacific region for marketing solutions.

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Steve has more than 30 years’ business and IT experience across multiple sectors. As a specialist in data management he has helped organisations transform and support their data methodology which underpins all applications, processes, devices and analytics to deliver value from data. Having worked with organisations across the UK and internationally that span multiple countries with multiple data requirements, Steve can offer his experience to resolve your challenges across a variety of solution areas including Master Data Management, Single Customer View and Data Governance.

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Michael M. Ott is a Senior Vice President of Innovative Systems, Inc., a global leader in the development and delivery of MDM, Data Governance, Data Quality, and AML compliance solutions.  Mr. Ott has extensive experience in executive management, marketing, business development, product management, and software development. He currently oversees the Data Management, MDM, and business solutions areas for Innovative Systems. For 30+ years, Mr. Ott has been involved in managing the delivery of MDM, risk management, data governance, and data quality consulting and solutions to some of the largest companies in the world.  He frequently speaks on topics related to achieving better business results through more effective data management and data governance approaches. Mr. Ott received a Bachelor of Economics degree from Allegheny College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Pittsburgh with a dual concentration in Marketing and Information Systems.

Naima El Omari currently is project manager for the New Product Development, Marketing and Quality at Dorel Juvenile Group.  Prior to this, Ms. El Omari was ICT manager at Intrasurance Technology Services.  Her other major employment tenures include: ProPlanet, Societe Generale, and BNP Paribas Personal Finance.  In addition to her TOGAF certification for Enterprise Architecture, Ms. El Omari received her Masters degree in Information Technology from Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC).

Suzanne Coumbaros is a data management professional with many years of experience in data governance, data architecture, data warehousing, business intelligence, data quality,  data development and data strategy in a variety of organisations. Originally a computer programmer, statistician and mathematician from Cumbria UK, she had worked for many government led organisations as well as public and privately own companies both across the UK and Africa. Her background information comes from having created data governance teams in different organisations and countries.

Fiona Healy has over 11 years of information technology experience with emphasis on a few key areas such as IT Operations, Delivery, System integration and most recently Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Security and Information Management.  Fiona was involved from inception with the development of Dixon Carphone’s Single Customer View. Her initial role was with the Agile delivery team prioritising the work and liaising with the stakeholders to capture business and data requirements. Fiona went on to collate the security requirements for the final solution.  Fiona is now leading an effort to establish a centre of excellence to provide data management services to the organisation including data quality, data governance, data security and protection policy and process involving the full extent of people, process and technology.

Mary Drabble has more than 15 years’ experience in Information Management and has helped clients across all industries in a wide variety of engagements ranging from Analytical to Operational data and information management solutions. Mary has a proven track record in Master Data Management, Data Governance and Data Quality tools, methodologies, architectures and processes and joined Agile Solutions as a Customer Success manager, focussed on collaborating with customers, peers and partners to achieve successful project outcomes.

Erika Bendixen is MDM Team Lead at BESTSELLER, a family-owned clothing and accessories company based in Denmark.  As part of BESTSELLER’s Global Master Data department, she is responsible for Data Governance and leads the team that oversees all data lifecycle processes, including documentation, availability and maintenance.  In her role, Ms. Bendixen works closely with the IT organization to ensure standardized data lifecycle processes across companies.  Prior to BESTSELLER, she held roles at DANFOSS in Logistics, Planning and Buying.  Ms. Bendixen holds graduate and postgraduate degrees from ITESM and Århus School of Business (DK).

Caroline Schofield has led the implementation of product data governance within Waitrose and for the last 2 years has been working on the implementation of a product MDM from a data perspective. Prior to this, Caroline was a senior business user with 10+ years of experience within Commercial at Waitrose which has given her insight and expertise into how product data is used across the business and the opportunities and challenges that the implementation of MDM and data governance bring. Caroline has championed data quality for many years at Waitrose and brings the perspective of the business to changes to the underlying data structure and the product life cycle.

Ivo-Paul Tummers, Bsc/MBA.  Ivo-Paul held several international positions for the aerospace/defence industry in mechanical engineering. In the mid ‘90s he became involved in resource planning, in an era where middleware was introduced. Out of this perspective he was an early adaptor of SOA principles, consequently recognizing the increasing demand for accurate, complete, in context and actionable decision streams.  This resulted in the foundation of JIBES. To date Jibes is a leading European implementation partner with a focus on data integration, governance & data analytics.

Bas-Jeroen Busscher is an experienced lawyer and contract manager in the field of large-scale infrastructure projects. In the past 25 years, he has been involved in almost all large-scale infrastructure projects in the Netherlands Bas-Jeroen was Involved in the opening of Amsterdam ArenA in 1996 as part of the Management Team. Bas-Jeroen was responsible as Director of Operations for new World Cup stadiums in Salvador da Bahia [Arena Fonte Nova] from 2012 until after the World Cup 2014 and Natal  [Arena das Dunas] from 2014-2015]. Bas-Jeroen is now CEO of Arena do Brasil, the Brazilian daughter of Amsterdam ArenA as well as Manager of the Projects Bureau of Amsterdam ArenA. He is also the Data Governance Lead and Corporate lawyer for the Amsterdam Innovation ArenA.

Nick Martijn is a senior consultant at the Enterprise Data Management department of KPMG IT Advisory in the Netherlands. He advises companies in various sectors in the development and implementation of data governance, but also other data management topics, such as Master Data Management, data management strategy or data quality improvement. Together with Amsterdam ArenA, Nick has developed and implemented data governance for their big data analytics environment. This interesting case follows the latest trends in data management.

Nathan Young has worked in the defence industry for 27 years with 25 of those being in the data management field. Nathan spent 25 years at Rolls-Royce predominantly in data management roles rising to the position of Data Delivery Manager before leaving the company in 2015. During his time at Rolls Royce, he saw significant changes to the defence market and helped to adapt the data management service to meet the challenges of today. In 2015 he joined BAE Systems – Naval Ships in the role of Data Governance Manager within the Data Quality & Governance team tasked with implementing a Data Governance Framework on the Type 26 programme. After an organisational change Nathan is now the Data Quality & Governance Manager heading up the team.

Scott Benson heads up the architecture team within GBG and is responsible for defining its strategic technical direction.  Mr. Benson has over 12 years of experience on large scale systems within the finance industry, government and other large scale organisations.  Prior to GBG, he worked at consultancies Misys and Capgemini, where he had major project roles at HMRC, Heathrow Airport and Royal Mail.  As the Head of Architecture at GBG, Mr. Benson helps set the strategic technology direction, governance and assess new technologies for use in GBG’s industry.  His current focus is of course graph technologies but also other Big Data capable technologies to help GBG process its global datasets.

Sue is a proverbial “dataholic” and it shows. Being able to assist organisations both large and small to not just understand their data and why it is so imperative to manage it but to work out their best route to achieving this is the reason Sue gets up and “goes to work” each day. Whether she needs to dive into the weeds with the data analysts and quality auditors to look at their data or talk to the C-level team about their data challenges and successes, she enjoys each and every part of this growing professional industry. Every time she “talks data” she believes that she open the eyes of at least one person to exactly why she is so passionate about what she does – that person takes this knowledge back to their organisation and does exactly the same – sparks the passion in the next person.  DAMA International President since 2014 (on the board from 2011) DAMA SA President 2009 to 2015 CDMP in 2010 – first in Africa; MDQM in 2011. Follow Sue on Twitter @suegeuens.

Davin Crowley-Sweet is the Professional Head of Asset Data and Information for Network Rail. In this role Davin is accountable for setting the corporate governance and assurance framework for asset-related data. Over the past decade Davin has held a number of asset roles ranging across front line maintenance management and asset reliability on the West Coast Mainline, delivery of multimillion pound asset renewal programmes, leading award winning data quality improvement initiatives and development of strategic business plans for regulated investment periods

Dr. Timothy King is Principal Consultant at the LSC Group with expertise information and knowledge management across Defence, Energy, Transport and Utilities markets. Tim is the chair and convener of the ISO working group that is developing ISO 8000 for Data Quality. This new standard enables organizations to implement a systematic and systemic approach to data quality management, resulting in data that conform to requirements. Tim is Principal Consultant within a practice of 35 individuals who provide expertise in information and knowledge management across Defence, Energy, Transport and Utilities markets. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of both the IMechE and British Computer Society.

Sara Monsef is a Manager at Deloitte specialising in design and implementation of Data Governance Frameworks and Data Management Target Operating Models across diverse industries including Financial Services, Public Sector, Media and Human Resources. Sara has implemented data and reporting governance frameworks focusing upon roles and responsibilities, data definition analysis, governance processes, change controls and Master Data Management. Sara leads the data governance training and development in the Deloitte UK Consulting practice. In her role as Data Governance & Assurance Design and Deployment Lead, she is supporting Network Rail to design, trial and deploy the quality management system to formalise the management and assurance of asset-related data, enabling optimal whole lifecycle management of assets and provide fit for purpose asset-related information.

Thomas Place is the Director of Data Management & Governance at First Data Corporation, where he leads enterprise data initiatives. Mr. Place currently focuses on pivoting the organization’s transactional data to a value-add asset through development of an enterprise data lake, governance and quality controls. Thus enabling new product development, and optimization of existing sales channels. Prior to First Data, he has over a decade of experience leading enterprise data technology initiatives in capital markets on both the buy and sell side. Mr. Place holds a BSc in computer science from the University of Nottingham in England.

Douglas Silverstone, has worked in the Not for profit sector for over a decade. Helping organizations of all sizes to identify how to get the most from technology and the data at their disposal. He is currently the Data governance manager for Thames Valley Housing, an Organization with 15,000+ homes. His role is establishing a framework as a foundation for a data driven future. He is responsible for Data Compliance (GDPR, PCI, FOI), Information security, Data Quality and Integrity, as well as proving the value of data and its criticality to any business strategy.

George is an independent information management practitioner, with 30+ years of experience of managing information in many organisations. He encourages organisations to connect and utilise their metadata islands, to recognise the wealth of information contained in their data models, to recognise that the creation of data models must form part of an integrated approach to improving their business. He is a blogger, co-author of “Data Modeling Made Simple Using PowerDesigner” with Steve Hoberman, and author of several articles on TDAN.com. George works with international clients including Riyad Bank, SABB, Alinma Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Deutsche Bank, BP, ENTSO-E, DHL, Otto Group and Shell. Most recently he has delivered Data Governance processes for an energy company, a comprehensive appraisal of Information Management practices at an Oil & Gas super major, SAP PowerDesigner training and expertise to several organisations, and Idera ER/Studio expertise to a major UK bank. George has extensive experience with producing and using data models at all levels of abstraction, from high-level views to logical data models, to messaging and database models.  George is an established conference presenter – if you attend one of his presentations you’ll see just how much importance he places on the use of modelling and metadata management in both Data Governance and Master Data Management. View his blog at metadatajunkie.wordpress.com .

Daragh O Brien is addicted to thinking, particularly about data. He’s hired a lot of deep thinkers for Castlebridge and they’ve been doing a lot of thinking about data ethics, data privacy, and data governance. So much so that people consider them experts. Daragh has been working on a book about Information Ethics with his colleague Katherine. It’ll be published in 2018 by Kogan Page. Follow Daragh on Twitter @cbridgeinfo.