Boulder BI Brain Trust

Boulder BI Brain Trust Founder

Claudia Imhoff	Claudia Imhoff: President and Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust and Intelligent Solutions, Inc. A thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy. Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D. is a popular and dynamic speaker and internationally recognized expert on analytical CRM, business intelligence, and the infrastructure to support these initiatives - the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five highly-regarded and popular books on these subjects and writes monthly columns (totaling more than 100) for technical and business magazines. She has an expert channel, a monthly newsletter, and a popular blog on the BeyeNETWORK.com. She has served on the Board of Advisors for DAMA International and was chosen by the DAMA organizations to receive the 1999 and 2005 Individual Achievement Awards. She is an advisor and a faculty member for The Data Warehousing Institute and was named a Fellow to the Institute in 2006. She serves as an advisor for several technology and commercial companies.
Boulder BI Brain Trust Sponsor
Ron Powell	Ron Powell: Cofounder & Editorial Director of the BeyeNETWORK. Ron has an extensive technology background with more than 30 years of experience in the field as a CEO, COO, consultant, manager and editor. Prior to cofounding of the BeyeNETWORK, he was cofounder, publisher and editorial director of a business intelligence publication. Ron has a wealth of expertise in business intelligence, business management and marketing.
Boulder BI Brain Trust Members
Merv Adrian	Merv Adrian: Principal of IT Market Research, a consultancy serving IT suppliers. Merv is a veteran industry analyst who most recently was Senior Vice President at Forrester Research. With over 30 years of IT experience, he has provided primary research, market analysis, message testing and AR consulting for leading global firms and is a frequent speaker at major industry events. Merv recently agreed to host an expert channel for the BeyeNETWORK on the emerging analytic applications market.
Michael Brooks	Michael Brooks: President of Dearborn Advisors, LLC. Michael has worked with over 100 companies in a variety of industries to apply technology to solve complex business issues. He is known for his ability to identify industry trends and develop pragmatic strategies that help organizations to adopt new technologies for strategic advantage. He has worked with numerous firms in the business intelligence, analytics and performance management area to develop and implement highly successful strategies for revenue growth through direct sales, strategic alliances and M&A events.
Brad Cowdrey	Brad Cowdrey: Founder and Managing Partner of Clear Peak, a Denver and San Francisco-based business intelligence firm that helps companies transform data into profits. Brad draws from nearly two decades of strategic consulting to lead a team that solves complex marketing, finance, operations and technology challenges. His depth of knowledge and c-suite experience help his clients advance operations and add tens of millions of dollars to their bottom lines.
Ronald Damhof	Ronald Damhoff Founder and Principle of Prudenza. Ronald graduated in 1995 in the study of Economics. Since 1995 he has worked as a practitioner in the data warehouse and business intelligence industry. In the years he progressed into the field of information management with a focus on decision support and data management, trying hard to enhance the rigor and relevance in these fields by combining scientific research with the everyday challenges of the practitioner. Ronald is mainly hired by customers in the role of business/IT architect, auditor, coach & trainer. He blogs on BeyeNETWORK.com and has written a series of articles regarding decision support architectures and is a researcher in the field of information management.
Dr. Barry Devlin	Dr. Barry Devlin: Founder and Principal of 9sight Consulting. Barry is among the foremost authorities on business insight and one of the founders of data warehousing. He is a widely respected consultant, lecturer and author of the seminal book, Data Warehouse–from Architecture to Implementation. Barry's current interest extends to a fully integrated business, covering informational, operational and collaborative environments to offer a holistic experience of the business through IT. He specializes in the human, organizational and IT implications and design of deep business insight solutions.
Steve Dine	Steve Dine: President and Founder of Datasource Consulting, LLC. Steve has more than 10 years of hands-on experience delivering and managing successful, highly scalable and maintainable data integration and business intelligence solutions. He also assists companies with BI tool assessments and teaches a course on the topic of Lean BI for The Data Warehouse Institute. He is the former director of global data warehousing for a major durable medical equipment manufacturer and former BI practice director for an established Denver based consulting company. Steve earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont and a MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Joseph A. di Paolantonio	Joseph A. di Paolantonio: CEO of InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc. Mr. di Paolantonio is CEO of InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc. He is passionate about creating and applying analytical techniques and management methodologies to solving business, engineering and scientific problems. Mr. di Paolantonio has headed both Fortune 100 professional services organizations and boutique consultancies. With over 30 years of experience, he has provided unique Bayesian statistical methods, Agile processes for distributed workgroups, architectural & MDM strategies for Cloud environments, and DW/BI/DM/PA implementations using both proprietary and open source solutions.
Howard Dresner	Howard Dresner: President of Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, an independent advisory firm and a well known authority and author in the areas of business intelligence and performance management. Howard has nearly 30 years of IT industry experience with 21 years in the business intelligence market. He spent 13 years at Gartner, where he was a Research Fellow and Lead Analyst for BI. He also served as Chief Strategy Officer at Hyperion Solutions prior to forming Dresner Advisory Services. Howard is a frequent speaker around the globe and has published two books on the subject - including: Profiles in Performance - Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change (John Wiley & Sons, November 2009) and The Performance Management Revolution: Business Results through Insight and Action (John Wiley & Sons, November 2007).
Mike Ferguson	Mike Ferguson: Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited As an independent analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence, data management and enterprise business integration. Based in UK, he has over 28 years of IT experience. Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on BI strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, MDM and data governance. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the BeyeNETWORK in various European countries, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry.
Jonathan Geiger	Jonathan Geiger: Executive Vice President Services, Intelligent Solutions, Inc. With over 35 years of management and hands-on experience in information management, including business intelligence, customer relationship management, quality assurance, data management, data quality, application development and support, productivity management, and training. Jonathan has written over sixty articles on business intelligence, customer relationship management and related topics, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and is a co-author of Data Stores, Data Warehousing and the Zachman Framework: Managing Enterprise Knowledge (McGraw-Hill, 1997), Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) and Mastering Data Warehouse Design: Relational and Dimensional Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
Rick Gilbert	Rick Gilbert: Executive Director and Data Management Consultant of Winter Corporation With more than 35 years of technology and executive management experience, Rick provides independent consulting to clients to plan for successful implementation of their large-scale data management programs. Having extensive first-hand experience and knowledge in large-scale data warehouse development as well as business management perspective, Rick brings an additional business-value dimension to the planning of data warehouse applications. Previously, Rick was Managing Director of Enterprise Decision Support Solutions for FedEx Services and also held executive positions in IT, Marketing, Customer Service, and Operations Management at US West and its predecessor Mountain Bell Telephone Company.
Dr. Richard Hackathorn	Dr. Richard Hackathorn: President and Founder of Bolder Technology, Inc. He has written three textbooks entitled Enterprise Database Connectivity, Using the Data Warehouse (with W.H. Inmon) and Web Farming for the Data Warehouse. He earned his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine.
Cindi Howson	Cindi Howson: Founder of BI Scorecard a resource for in-depth BI product reviews, based on exclusive hands-on testing. She has been advising clients on BI tool strategies and selections for 15 years. She is the author of Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App and Business Objects XI: The Complete Reference. Prior to founding BI Scorecard, Howson was a manager at Deloitte & Touche and a BI standards leader for a Fortune 500 company. She is a TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) faculty member, writes for Intelligent Enterprise and the BeyeNETWORK. She has an MBA from Rice University.
Lu Kroeger	Lu Kroeger: Independent Consultant, Trailhead Technology. Throughout 20 years of data management experience, Luise Kroeger focused on helping clients improve business results by enabling access to information essential to efficiently manage their business. She designed and implemented data warehouse, business intelligence, and customer relationship management applications for mid- and large-sized clients in retail, financial services, hospitality, travel, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing and government throughout North America and Europe. Ms. Kroeger was a pioneer in delivering very large parallel database solutions to the enterprise and in designing internationalized OLAP solutions to deliver end user reporting requirements.
Mark Madsen	Mark Madsen: President of Third Nature, is a former CTO and CIO with experience working in both IT and vendors, including a stint at a company used as a Harvard Business School case study. Over the past decade, Mark has received awards for his work in data warehousing, business intelligence and data integration from the American Productivity & Quality Center, the Smithsonian Institute and TDWI.
David McGoveran	David McGoveran: Founder and Principal of Alternative Technologies, an independent industry analyst and consulting firm in data management, business intelligence, and business process management founded in 1976 with clients worldwide. David has over 35 years experience with leading edge information technologies, from design, development, and education to market creation, forecast, positioning, and evangelizing. He is well-known as an author and speaker, and for his contributions to database, transaction processing, integration and BPM technologies.
William McKnight	William McKnight: Strategist, Lead Enterprise Information Architect and Program Manager for complex, high-volume full life-cycle implementations worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence. Many of his clients have gone public with their success story. William is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge, has authored more than 150 articles and white papers and given over 150 international keynotes and public seminars. His team’s implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won Best Practices awards. William is a former IT VP of a Fortune company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA.
Steve Murchie	Steve Murchie: Chapter President Denver/Rockies of the Keiretu Forum. Steve has over twenty-five years experience in the software industry, starting as a programmer/analyst and progressing through a variety of roles in sales, marketing and general management. The companies he has worked with span the spectrum of the industry, including startups, turnarounds, a VC-backed roll-up and an eight-year stint at Microsoft, where he helped grow the SQL Server business from $300M to over $1B in under five years. In 2004, he left Microsoft to return to the start-up world as CEO of a fledgling company, and got his first taste of the angel investing process. While that initial exposure didn't earn any financing for his business, he did gain a lot of insight from the Keiretsu Forum members, which was inevitably even more valuable. When Steve decided to relocate back to Colorado, he explored the possibility of bringing a chapter of the group to Denver, and the result is a very successful new chapter launched in March 2007.
Joyce Montanari	Joyce Montanari: President of DBTech Solutions, Inc. Joyce advises clients on all aspects of business intelligence, and data management. This includes metrics-driven technology selection for tools like ETL, profiling, database, quality, and metadata. Joyce speaks frequently at data warehouse conferences, and is a contributor to several trade publications. She co-authored with W. H. Inmon, and others on data warehousing and e-business, published by Wiley & Sons. Joyce has managed and implemented data warehouses and operational data stores for pharmaceutical, restaurants, telecommunications, government healthcare, financial, oil and gas, insurance, research and development and retail companies.
John Myers	John Myers: Senior Consultant at Subex, Senior Analyst & Principal Consultant at Blue Buffalo Group. John has more than 10 years of information technology and consulting experience in positions including business intelligence subject-matter expert, technical architect and systems integrator. Over the past eight years, he has a wealth of business and information technology consulting experience in the telecommunications industry. John specializes in business intelligence/data warehousing and systems integration solutions.
Philippe Nieuwbourg	Philippe Nieuwbourg: Founder & Editorial Director of Decideo.fr. Philippe has around 20 years of experience in analyzing and writing about BI and Data Warehousing tools and best practices. In 1990 he created the first newsgroup on the French speaking Internet about OLAP. Decideo.fr is today the leading web community in the French speaking world about BI with more than 9,000 subscribers. Decideo.fr is affiliate site of the BeyeNETWORK.
Bonnie O'Neil	Bonnie O'Neil: Senior Technical Consultant/Senior Principal Data Architect at Project Performance Corporation, and is an internationally recognized expert on data quality, glossaries, business metadata, data architecture, business rules and the emerging field of semantics and Web 2.0. She is a regular speaker at many conferences, and has also been a workshop leader at Meta Data/DAMA Conference, Oracle ODTUG, and the Business Rules Forum; she was the keynote speaker at an international conference on Data Quality in South Africa. She has been involved in strategic data management projects in both Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, and her expertise includes specialized skills such as data quality, profiling, semantic/data integration and migration. She is the author of three books including Business Metadata and over 40 articles and technical white papers.
Neil Raden	Neil Raden: Founder of Hired Brains. Neil is an active consultant, industry analyst, speaker and author. His articles appear in industry magazines, he is the author of dozens of sponsored white papers for vendors and other organizations. He has contributed to numerous books and is the co-author of Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions. You can read Neil's blog here.
Lisa Reeves	Lisa Reeves: General Partner at Vista Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology opportunities. Vista is based in Boulder, CO but the firm invests nationally in the areas of software, digital media, and networking. Prior to Vista, Lisa spent 14 years at SAP AG, the worldwide leader in business software, including 5 years managing their corporate venture fund and 9 years in senior operational roles in business development, marketing, sales and consulting. Prior to SAP, Lisa was in international operations at the Chrysler Corporation in Detroit, MI.
Shawn Rogers	Shawn Rogers: President of Analytic Response and Cofounder of the BeyeNETWORK. Shawn has more than 19 years of hands-on IT experience with a focus on Internet-enabled technology. Prior to the founding of the BeyeNETWORK he was a partner at a business intelligence publication where he was Vice President as well as Publisher and Editorial Director.
Michael A. Schiff	Michael A. Schiff: Founder and Principal Analyst of MAS Strategies, an independent data warehousing industry analyst firm. Mike was formerly the Vice President of the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence service at Current Analysis as well as the Executive Director - Data Warehousing and Advanced Decision Support for Oracle Corporation's Public Sector Group. He was also the Director of Software AG's Data Management program where he was one of the industry's earliest proponents of the data mart concept. While at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984, he formulated the architecture for one of the first data warehouse implementations. Mike earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from MIT's Sloan School of Management specializing in operations research as an undergraduate, and information systems as a graduate. His prior experience as an IT Director and Systems and Programming Manager provide him with a thorough understanding of the technical, business, and political issues that must be addressed for any successful systems implementation or product launch.
Bindu Shah	Bindu Shah: CBIP, Principal, Data Tech Solutions, Inc. With over 20 years of cross-functional data delivery and design experience, Bindu has provided companies with practical, cost-effective data management and information solutions. She is a recognized expert in various disciplines - database architecting, database design, implementation, data source analysis, and strategic planning. She has helped clients with BI assessments, technology selection and tool evaluations.
Evangelos Simoudis	Evangelos Simoudis: Managing Director at Trident Capital. He focuses on investments in business analytics, software (SaaS) and Internet businesses (advertising technology and e-commerce). Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.
Dave Stodder	Dave Stodder: Independent Analyst, Writer and Researcher focused on innovative uses of information to achieve business objectives. He heads up his own firm, Perceptive Information Strategies. Stodder is editor-at-large with Intelligent Enterprise, where he was the founding editor and served as chief editor for nine years. He was also Editorial Director of the Database Summit Series and Intelligent Enterprise Summit conferences, and has spoken at numerous industry events and Webcasts. Stodder is currently a Research Fellow with Ventana Research, where he previously served as VP and Research Director. He has been covering information technology, business intelligence, information management, operational intelligence, process management and related topics for more than two decades.
Rick Sturm	Rick Sturm: Founder & President of Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. For the past 25 years, Rick has been dedicated to the field of information technology. As a former Chief Architect for Network and Systems Management, he witnessed first-hand the challenges of enterprise management. At that time, management platforms were in their infancy. With the advent of the Internet, the landscape of managing enterprise computing and communications had forever changed. Prior to founding EMA, Rick worked in senior IT roles at US West and A.C. Nielsen.
James Taylor	James Taylor: CEO and Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions One of the leading experts in decision management and decisioning technologies, James is passionate about using technology like business rules and predictive analytics to improve decision making and develop smarter systems. James works with technology vendors and their customers, focusing on the effective use of decisioning technologies, and is an active speaker and blogger. He co-authored "Smart (Enough) Systems" (Prentice Hall, 2007) with Neil Raden, and blogs extensively at JTonEDM.com as well as on BeyeNetwork, Smart Data Collective and ebizQ.
Jos van Dongen	Jos van Dongen: Founder and Principal of Tholis Consulting. Jos has been involved in software development, business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing since 1991. Before starting his own consulting practice in 1998, he worked for a top tier systems integrator and a leading management consulting firm. Over the past years, he has successfully implemented data warehouses and BI solutions for a variety of organizations, both profit and non-profit. Jos covers new BI developments for the Dutch Database Magazine and speaks regularly at national and international conferences. He authored a (Dutch) book on open source BI called Low Cost, High Value? and is co-author of the book Pentaho Solutions.
Colin White	Colin White: Founder of BI Research. He is well known for his in-depth knowledge of leading-edge business intelligence and business integration technologies, and how they can be used to build a smart and agile business. With more than 35 years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events. He is also conference chair for DCI's Portal, Collaboration and Content Management conference. Colin has written numerous articles on business intelligence and enterprise business integration. Colin has an expert channel and blog on the BeyeNETWORK.
Lyndsay Wise	Lyndsay Wise: President and Founder of WiseAnalytics, an independent analyst firm specializing in business intelligence, master data management, and unstructured data. For ten years, she has assisted clients in business systems analysis, software selection, and implementation of enterprise applications. Lyndsay conducts regular research studies, consults, writes articles and speaks about improving the value of business intelligence within organizations.