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As Executive Vice President of Innovation, John Wollman is responsible for the overall coordination of our business and solution development. �Mr. Wollman is acknowledged as a pioneer and industry thought leader in MDM and Data Governance, especially regarding the pharmaceutical and life science industries.� Prior to joining HighPoint, he served as the EVP and CTO at Alliance Consulting/Alliance Life Sciences Consulting Group where he oversaw the company’s transformation into a full-service consultancy. Mr. Wollman has also previously held senior positions at PLATINUM Technology, Whittman-Hart, and Accenture’s FOUNDATION Software Organization. �He received a B.S. from Duke University with a dual concentration in Computer Science and Economics.

Cris Hadjez has worked with various products in the BI space for over 14 years and has covered multiple industries to include international clients. Currently, Mr. Hadjez �is the director of the BI Practice in North America for itelligence, a gold-level SAP partner based out of Cincinnati, OH. You can contact him at�Cris.Hadjez@itelligencegroup.com.

Christine McClary, Data Architect, has been a leader in the area of data management at National Instruments, spearheading NI's customer MDM program.� She has expertise in the areas of information requirements planning, master data management, data integration, data modeling, information quality improvement, and business metadata management.� Christine has over 20 years of experience in information systems development and implementation at high-tech companies such as NI, GMF Robotics, and Digital Equipment Corp and at food industry companies such as Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc and Whole Foods Market.

Shailender Vootla is the Master Data Management Lead at Associated Press, the world�s largest news media organization. He has successfully led the enterprise wide Data Governance, Data Quality and Master Data Management program at AP. Shailender has vast experience in implementing full life cycle MDM projects in enterprises with complex environments and specializes in SAP. His expertise lies in Customer Data Management and Integration, Product Information Management, Data Analytics and Data Architecture. Shailender worked as a Senior Consultant at Accenture where he was responsible for developing vision, strategy, execution and governance of Enterprise Information Management programs for various clients in Finance, Retail and other industries. He holds a Master�s degree in Computer Science from George Mason University.

Mathieu Blandin, Enterprise Data Governance Officer at Essilor of America, has more than 15 years of experience in Enterprise Information Management.Mathieu holds many different positions/responsibilities within IT (head of BI/EDW) & business (Supply chain, strategic sourcing & Procurement, Distribution Center, Finance) Mathieu’s passion is to help organizations gain a key competitive advantage by leveraging their data asset. Mr. Blandin is lean six-sigma certified & received his M.B.A. in Business management & Information from the University of Paris 12, France.

Wally is with the Tax Technology unit at United Technologies Corp. (UTC). He is the Data Relationship Management lead supporting the UTC’s Tax Department. He has more than 15 years’ experience in various Information Management functions (business intelligence, data mining, data architecture and data integration) across multiple industries.

Deeprani Srinivasan has 17+ years of demonstrated technical leadership in developing distributed teams of programmer/analysts, program management, architecture operations, and business solutions for ERP, CRM and MDM solutions. As the program manager for the Customer Data Integration program, Ms. Srinivasan worked closely with business and IT to deliver internal and external customer facing solutions for National Instruments (NI). In recent years she has championed Master Data Management as a discipline to raise awareness among business and IT of it's long term need and potential. Currently she works with the business to define and evolve the strategy for NI's Master Data Management and oversees the Customer MDM, Product MDM and Entitlements multi-domain data platform for National Instruments.��

Lindy Ryan is research director, data discovery and visualization, at Radiant Advisors.�You may reach her at lindy.ryan@radiantadvisors.com and follow her on Twitter @Lindy_Ryan

At Memorial Health System (MHS),Thomas Janssen is currently responsible for the design, development and implementation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse which will serve as the foundation for healthcare Business Intelligence.  This work effort has involved obtaining executive sponsorship for the initiative, creation of a 5-year BI roadmap, selection of vendor(s) to assist with gathering business requirements across the health system, and vendor management for the development of the EDW and business intelligence layer.  Prior to MHS, Mr. Janssen served Horace Mann Corporation for over 8 years where he was the Director for the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program, managed both server engineers and mainframe engineers, as well as led the Capacity Planning and Performance Monitoring efforts.   Before being hired by Horace Mann Corporation, Mr. Janssen served there for a full year as a consultant for MSF&W, Inc.  Other consulting engagements for MSF&W included responsibilities for the Texas Medicaid program, as well as document imaging solutions for several of the state universities in Illinois.  Mr. Janssen is a seasoned Information Technology professional with over 27 years in IT, including consulting with a focus in healthcare and insurance.