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John Parker is a Senior Director in Oracle's Enterprise Data Management group. For the past 9 years he has worked with hundreds of Oracle customers around the world defining data strategies and architectures for maintaining and improving mission-critical data. Prior to Oracle, he ran financial services for Vitria Technology. He was COO and CEO of Sectorbase, now Revere Data, and has designed and implemented MDM and reference data solutions at major banks and brokerage firms. He was educated at MIT and Emory University, majoring in Economics.

As the Director of Global Customer Data at Elsevier, Frank Guastafeste is a business champion, advocate and partner on the use, development and growth of Customer MDM.� He supports many initiatives that demand a deeper understanding of the people we serve (researchers and customers) with the knowledge that the unique identification of individuals and institutions has become increasingly important to Elsevier�s strategy.� Customer Master Data Management (CMDM) is one of the key enablers in developing this deeper understanding. Mr. Guastafeste works with the relevant business customer data teams across organizational boundaries to enable a 360 degree view of the customer through the successful implementation of the Oracle Customer Hub.� He provides guidance to the business teams in the area of business requirements, data definitions, data standards, and logical data models.� Mr. Guastafeste works with the business teams to implement appropriate data governance processes that support the creation and delivery of high quality customer data to Elsevier.

Jason O’Meara is the Director of Enterprise Information Management in Quest Diagnostics’ Solution Architecture group. Mr. O’Meara is responsible for overseeing the architecture and design of Quest Diagnostics’ master data management solutions, enterprise information architecture (EIA) solutions, and the organization's information-sharing strategy. In partnership with business, functional, and information technology (IT) leaders, he is responsible for develop the requirements, principles, designs, and models that strengthen the network effect of sharing information across the enterprise. He is also responsible for developing and supporting the architectural blueprint and implementation roadmap that guides the IT investments required to effectively manage the company’s enterprise information assets. Prior to joining Quest Diagnostics in 2004, Jason was a Senior Consultant in Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Life Sciences Practice. In this role he delivered custom IT solutions for Standard & Poor’s, Quest Diagnostics, Cigna Healthcare, and GE Capital. Jason earned a Master of Healthcare Administration from the University of North Carolina and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree for Computer and Electrical Engineering from Duke University.

Mehmet Orun leads the Data Solution Advisory Practice at Salesforce.com, advising customers on how to address data quality challenges and maximize the value of enterprise information through proven and emerging practices.� Mr. Orun’s philosophies have been shaped through his experiences as a Management Consultant with Ernst & Young, Enterprise Data Architect and MDM Solution Owner at Genentech, and Product Management Director for Salesforce.com where he lead Data.com Data Quality Roadmap and developed the internal Data Operations team. During his career as a data professional, Mr. Orun established himself as a recognized practitioner and thought leader as a result of sharing real world implementation experiences, often based on leading and emerging practices. �He holds a mastery level CDMP, and was the primary contributor of the Reference and MDM chapter of the DAMA-DMBOK. Mr. Orun received his B.S. in Computer Engineering and his MBA from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Bashir is a software engineer specializing in data warehousing, data architecture, business intelligence, marketing analytics, and data governance with extensive experience in both technical and management disciplines.  He is associated with Signature Associates which provides turnkey solutions as well as consultants to assist organizations in the management and leveraging of data assets.  As a senior software engineer he is responsible for the development of architectural road-maps  data warehouse design and implementation of data governance processes. Bashir has a Masters in Business Management from the University of Liverpool, England.

Henry Olson is a director of product management for Embarcadero Technologies.

Cesar Fernandez is director of product solutions for PMG, a software company that deploys enterprise service catalogs for the Global 2000. With a Six Sigma Black Belt and ITIL v3 certification, Fernandez has over 20 years of experience in business process management. After several years of working closely with the PMG customer base, he now leads the company in developing service catalog solutions targeted to specific customer needs.

Jared Coseglia is the president of TRU Staffing Partners, a premiere search firm representing talent and opportunities in the legal technology industry with an emphasis on e-discovery, forensics and litigation support staffing.

Eric Novik is a data scientist at TIBCO Spotfire focusing on the financial services vertical. �Prior to joining Spotfire, Eric was a Statistical Consultant at Random House where he developed tools for pricing and marketing analytics. He holds an MA in Statistics from Columbia University and BS in Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton. He lives in Astoria, New York and enjoys spending time with his two kids who are sick of him asking them to restate their answer using confidence intervals instead point estimates. More information on Novik can be found at www.ericnovik.com.