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Dan Myers currently manages enterprise data management initiatives for Farmers Insurance. At Farmers he has also managed data and functional B.I. testing. Dan conducted an extensive metadata software review implemented Farmers first enterprise-wide metadata repository. Dan led a committee to review and select data quality tools for Farmers and wrote a comprehensive report comparing the industrys top DQ tools. He authored the Farmers' governance policy for integration/sourcing, metadata management, and data quality. Previously Dan has worked as an independent Oracle Certified Professional consultant in both front and back-end development capacities. Dan's fluency in Japanese enabled him to work in both the public and private sector in Japan. Dan received his MBA from the U.S.C. Marshall School of Business in 2009.
Lalit Agarwal is an MDM Architect at Dell.
Karpakam Rajagopalan is the Enterprise Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems, primarily focusing on MDM implementation initiatives. Ms. Rajagopalan has more than 18 years of experience in architecting, designing and implementing Oracle Applications. She has been playing a pivotal rule in evolving the MDM roadmap, building and adoption of Customer Data Hub and Product Data Hub at Cisco Systems. Ms. Rajagopalan received her Masters in Mathematics degree from IIT, Chennai, India.
Bill Bain is a General Partner with NewVantage Partners, a business and technology strategy firm specializing in data and analytics. Bills corporate executive management and consulting experience has focused on business strategy, technology and operations management, software development and implementation. In addition to Chief Technology Officer roles in Internet start-ups and larger firms, Bill spent 10 years in the financial services industry, as a Senior Vice President at PaineWebber Inc., head of reengineering at Bankers Trust, and as CTO of Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, a banking unit of American Express. Bill earned a Ph.D. and B.S. in computer science from Yale University.
Mike Arnoldy is a solutions architect at TopDown Consulting, the preferred Hyperion/EPM solution partner for many of the largest and best performing Global 2000 companies. Mike has over 20 years of experience in all phases of design, development and implementation of financial applications. He specializes in financial consolidation applications that include complex calculations, foreign currency translation, inter-company/equity eliminations and varied reporting requirements to satisfy both external management reporting needs.
Ed Deiss is a Richmond, Virg.-based management and IT consultant with comprehensive experience encompassing a diverse range of complex business and technology projects in both the private and public sector, including healthcare, defense, manufacturing, financial services, media and communications, non-profit, and federal and state government. Mr. Deiss is a Six Sigma Green Belt and can be reached via LinkedIn or by email at deissman@comcast.net.
Ramon Chen is the VP of Marketing at Reltio, a provider of modern data management and enterprise data-driven applications.� Mr. Chen is a widely read blogger and guest author on the topics of MDM, Big Data and Cloud Computing, and is also a frequent industry speaker and panelist.� A former software engineer, he has spent over 25 years developing and marketing Enterprise Software, and now Cloud and Big Data technologies.� Most recently, prior to Reltio, Mr. Chen was VP Product Marketing at Veeva Systems, and before that he was part of the core team at Siperian, a market-leading MDM platform acquired by Informatica.� He received his Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Essex.
Matthew Hoying is the Director of Information Delivery, Management, and Architecture within Stanford University�s Financial Management, Consulting, and Support department. Matthew is responsible for the strategic rearchitecture of Stanford�s reporting ecosystem and the evolution of the organization�s data management practices. Prior to this role, he has designed and implemented data governance programs for Stanford University and UPS. He has over a decade of experience in data governance, data architecture, business intelligence and master data management.



