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Matt is responsible for all aspects of strategy, marketing, and business development at Veeva Systems. In 2007, Matt was named to the PharmaVOICE 100, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in the life sciences industry. Matt comes to Veeva from Health Market Science (HMS), a leading healthcare data services company, where he was Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to HMS, Matt was Vice President of Marketing & Product Management at IntelliChem, an enterprise software company acquired by Symyx Technologies in 2004. Prior to his small company forays, Matt was the General Manager of the Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology division at Siebel Systems, which has since been acquired by Oracle. During his time at Siebel, Matt was responsible for building this global division, which grew from its inception to over $140 million under his leadership, capturing greater than 80% market share in the pharma CRM and clinical trial management (CTM) markets. At one point, nearly half of all pharma sales reps on earth used the products created during his tenure at Siebel, though that is rapidly changing these days. Matt currently serves as a Senior Advisor to SeventySix Capital, a leading early stage venture capital fund, and is on the Advisory Board at Crossix, an innovator in the healthcare analytics arena. Matt received his MBA from the Harvard Business School, with honors, and his BA in Economics from Yale University, cum laude.

Sheli focuses on social media and leveraging technologies to enable Knowledgent Group Inc.to bring innovative knowledge based solutions to its customers. He brings 25 years of experience in the sales and marketing systems of global pharmaceutical companies and demonstrates expertise in the complex applications for sales forces, sales analytics, master data management and compliance. Most recently, he was an executive at Dendrite International following Dendrite's 2002 acquisition of Software Associates International (SAI), a firm which Sheli cofounded in 1994 and significantly contributed to its growth from a two-person software and services company into a highly successful 180-person company with $23 million in revenue and customers that included the majority of the top 20 U.S pharmaceutical companies. Sheli and SAI were recipients of numerous awards, including the 1998 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in New Jersey. Prior to forming SAI, Sheli spent five years at IMS Health and served in various roles including programming and business development.

Malcolm Slovin is vice president for EM&I.

Michael Frank is VP of data center services for Internap and leads Internap’s colocation product management and business development teams. He has spent his entire Internap career dedicated to data center services, and at different times he has lead Internap’s colocation business unit, managed the data center operations team and developed the managed hosting product line. Prior to joining Internap, he held vendor management and product development roles at BellSouth in Atlanta.

Niels Lademark Heegaard is a senior consultant with Platon, an independent information management consulting firm.

Linhares leads Pfizer's BIS team and was a force behind the drugmaker's federated integration strategy to centralize R&D and eliminate "spreadmart" silos of information that were not updated or shared evenly. A newer challenge for Linhares is the implementation of a "scientific workbench" for common data capture that virtualizes lab information management systems, chromatography, eLab notebooks, data warehouse and outside information. Latulippe Smith & Nephew is a regulated provider of artificial hips and knees, orthopedic equipment and hospital and consumer wound management supplies. With three global business units operating on separate SAP instances, Latulippe was cited for her work to improve data quality and integration through governance and scorecards in the global MDM practice. While data quality varies across different endeavors and 300 legacy environments, data quality has reached 95 percent overall from an initial 25 percent across all three GBUs. It has also revealed many thousands of inactive SKUs and given new insight to the company's core mission.

It is very hard to categorize this physics Ph.D. turned data modeler. Or is it data scientist? Ontologist? Engineer? Suzanne Yoakum-Stover hasn't come up with a title herself beyond her small institute and consulting business. But she surely doesn't talk like the CIOs and architects we're used to.Yoakum-Stover was tapped for bringing ultra large-scale intelligence data to a private cloud computing environment and the use of columnar databases in lab work now used by the government. At the moment, most of her work is for the U.S. Army, but it's not her ultimate goal to work in government intelligence. Her driving ambition is an ultra-large, Internet scale abstract model for capturing data from any source in any data model without loss or distortion. With her research partner she's come up with a framework she'd like to share openly as a kind of Fermi Lab for scholars and scientists to pursue research."We have disciplines like physics, biology and less pure things like economics, that's sort of the closest one I can think of to where we're going," she told us. "I think we are on the brink of discovering something like that for intelligence."

Mr. Unrau is currently a manager in Customer Analytics Centre of Excellence division playing a central role guiding Canadian Tire’s  transition to becoming a more data driven and customer-centric organization.  He was very involved in assembling and selling the business case to do customer data integration and represented the business on the first phase implementation. Mr. Unrau is now working to enable customer-centric insights and analytics for retailing as well as having business ownership for the customer centric infrastructure and stewardship.  He has worked for Canadian Tire over 20 years in many different roles within Operations, IT, Finance, Modelling and Analytics, Credit Risk and Marketing.  Mr. Unrau has a degree in Economics and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA).  

David Vasquez Following Nationwide's acquisition of Allied Insurance, Vasquez took a major role in integrating the companies' auto policy data in a hybrid model that could report across some 800 attributes and 100 metrics of product performance. Pricing and product departments use the reporting to track retention, minimize customer churn from rate increases and cross-sell across rate decreases. "We are seeing about a 0.1 percent increase in our retention in the places we've rolled this out to, an estimated $14 million savings across various projects and states," Vasquez says. "