Boulder BI Brain Trust

Brain Trust Members

Claudia Imhoff	Claudia Imhoff: 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 B-EYE-Network.com web site. 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.
Ron Powell	Ron Powell: Cofounder & Editorial Director of the Business Intelligence Network. 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 the founding of the Business Intelligence Network with Shawn Rogers, 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.
Shawn Rogers	Shawn Rogers: Cofounder & Editorial Director of the Business Intelligence Network. Shawn has more than 19 years of hands-on IT experience with a focus on Internet-enabled technology. Prior to the founding of the Business Intelligence Network with Ron Powell, he was a partner at a business intelligence publication. His wide knowledge of both IT and business management enables him to provide extensive industry insight for the Network.
Michael Brooks	Michael Brooks: President of Checkmate 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.
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.
Lowell Fryman	Lowell Fryman: Principal of Metrics Consulting Corp., a Colorado firm specializing in training and services for the data warehousing industry. Lowell is a Certified GIF Architect and has been recognized by Bill Inmon as a contributor to a number of his books. Lowell was published articles in the field of data architecture, metadata, data warehousing and data quality, has participated in over 100 warehousing projects and been a speaker at over 40 international conferences over that last decade.
Dr. Richard Hackathorn	Dr. Richard Hackathorn: President and founder of Bolder Technology, Inc., an established consultancy in Boulder, Colorado. Hackathorn has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry and is a well-known technology innovator and international educator, conducting professional seminars in 18 countries. 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.
Hans Hultgren	Hans Hultgren: Faculty member in the ITEC Department at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver specializing in the areas of data warehousing, business intelligence, database, and entrepreneurship. Mr. Hultgren has recently been focused on the development and launch of the new Masters of Science in Business Intelligence (MSBI) program. Mr. Hultgren is the co-founder and CEO of RapidACE, LLC and Genesee Academy, LLC. He is actively involved in the entrepreneurial community and also speaks, consults and trains in the areas of data warehousing, business intelligence, data modeling, project management, and entrepreneurship.
Krish Krishnan	Krish Krishnan: Mr. Krishnan is an expert in the strategy, architecture and implementation of high performance data warehousing solutions. He is a recognized data warehouse thought leader, writing and speaking at industry leading conferences, user groups and trade publications. Krish leads the Data Warehouse Appliance Expert Channel at BeyeNETWORK.com and is helping drive and mature the data warehouse appliance market. Krish also serves as Associate Vice President of Programs, DAMA Chicago.
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.
Daniel Linstedt	Daniel Linstedt: CTO, Genesee Academy, LLC, and RapidACE, LLC. Daniel is an internationally known expert in very large data warehousing (VLDW), and systems performance and tuning. He has been the lead technical architect on enterprise-wide data warehouse projects and refinements for many Fortune 500 companies. Linstedt is an instructor of The Data Warehousing Institute with the Data Vault data modeling, and VLDW specialties. He has also been a featured speaker at industry events such as: Oracle Developer Tools User Group (ODTUG), Informatica World, Wilshire Conferences (Enterprise Data Forum), and Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG).
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.
John Myers	John Myers: 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.
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, health care, financial, oil and gas, insurance, research and development, and retail companies.
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 (due out late summer 2007) and over 40 articles and technical white papers.
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.
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.
Len Silverston	Len Silverston: President Universal Data Models, LLC. Len Silverston is a best-selling author, consultant, and speaker with over 25 years of experience helping organizations integrate their information and systems. Mr. Silverston is a thought leader in the fields of data modeling, data management and in the human dynamics of integrating data. He has been a pioneer in the field, most notably by developing an extensive library of "Universal Data Models", or in other words, re-usable models, which he has used to help a great deal of organizations to develop data models in much less time with much greater quality.
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.
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 B-Eye-Network.