Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
Latest NewsByron Sebastian is founder and CEO of Seattle-based SourceLabs, providers of dependable open source systems for enterprise IT organizations. He develops and drives SourceLabs strategy and ensures that the company has the right talent and process capabilities to grow rapidly and provide support to its customers. He has been in the software industry for many years and has held various product development and marketing positions for companies such as Microsoft, BEA, Crossgaina nd Amazon. Before founding SourceLabs, he was vice president and general manager of the WebLogic Portal and Workshop Divisions at BEA. He may be reached at byron@sourcelabs.com.
Doug Freud is technical manager of Analytics & Data Mining at Oracle Corporation. He has over fifteen years of experience in helping organizations design, develop and implement analytically based solutions. His areas of expertise include data mining, text mining and statistics. Prior to joining Oracle, Freud was at SPSS Inc. and worked both in the marketing and professional services organizations. He may be reached at doug.freud@oracle.com
Michael Coveney is director of Extensity Business Services (formerly Geac Business Services), a group of domain experts that helps enterprises combine "best management practices" with technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their performance management processes. He is a regular speaker at many international events. He is co-author of the book, The Strategy Gap, published by John Wiley and Sons and a course leader on corporate performance management with the American Management Association.
Jim Hodel is a senior data architect working as a consultant for clients in government and private industry. You may contact him at jhodel@qwest.net.
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. His I/DQ career began in 2000 with the Bulgari data quality project; he later became the data quality manager in 2002. He may be reached at alberto.villari@bulgari.com.
Bruce Johnson, Ph.D. is a retired associate professor of information and decision sciences, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. He is co-author along with Robert Miller, Walter W. Woolfolk and Cindy Johnson of Flexible Software Design: Systems Development for Changing Requirements, Auerbach Publishers, 2005. He may be reached at mountainbruce@earthlink.net.
Alan Pittis has more than 30 years experience in the IT industry, including sixteen years with IBM and four with Teradata. His primary interest is consulting in the area of business development for innovative new technologies. He may be reached at alan.pittis@neyaka.ca.
Edward Lewis, president and CEO of Mitrix, has more than 20 years of supply chain management expertise as a sales and operations executive and consultant. He has architected leading SCM solutions for numerous small and mid-sized companies. He may be reached at ed.lewis@mitrix.com.
Dr. Martin Ahrens is vice president, Methodology & Quality Assurance for Inductis. He has served many leading firms in the publishing, online services, training, financial and data management industries. He combines broad business understanding with advanced statistical knowledge. He may be reached at mahrens@inductis.com.
Fred Richards is a vice president for Jinfonet, a software company that specializes in Java-based enterprise reporting. He has worked in the BI market for more than 10 years. He can be reached at frichards@jinfonet.com.
