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Scott is currently leading the NA BIM Group. Scott has a proven track record of success in the EPM/BI space and is a recognized leader with deep industry and solution knowledge.

Kevin Kern currently serves as Innotas' President and CEO, leveraging his 20 years of operational experience with high-growth software companies. Kevin previously held sales management positions at TIBCO and Oracle. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Political Science.

Cindi Thompson, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP, leads the Text Analytics team within Deloitte Analytics. She has more than 13 years R&D and project management experience in industrial, consulting, and academic settings. Her areas of expertise include text and social analytics, machine learning/data mining, and adaptive recommendation systems. Cindi has a Ph.D. and master's in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas – Austin, and a B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.

Blaine Mathieu combines his years of software product and marketing acumen in his role as Chief Products Officer at Mindjet. A seasoned software veteran, Mathieu most recently was CMO at Lyris, an email marketing and marketing automation provider. Mathieu has also served as General Manager and Vice President of Products and Marketing at Corel Corporation, Adobe Systems Incorporated and Gartner Group.

Presently, Dr. Darshan Desai is a Professor at Berkeley College, New York. She has taught statistics and analytics related graduate/MBA courses internationally, and helped her students learn to extract meaningful stories out of complex piles of data. Her broad research interests include analytics, CRM and change management.

Santosh Arvind Sardesai is Senior Technology architect at Infosys. He has 14 years of experience in Consulting and implementation of the projects in the domains of Information Management which covers Data warehousing, Business Analytics, Data Migration, Data Governance and Database administration.He is certified professional on Oracle (OCP 9i DBA), SAS (Base SAS Certified), Teradata (Certified architect) and IBM (Information Analyzer). He can be reached at santosh_sardesai@infosys.com.

Jeff Klaus is the general manager of Intel data center management solutions, where he has managed various groups for over 10 years. Jeff’s team is pioneering power and thermal management middleware, which is sold through an ecosystem of DCIM software companies, OEMs, and direct to some enterprises. He can be reached at dcm.sales@intel.com.

Lori Halfacre has worked within the information management discipline for her entire technology career. She believes in the inherent value of information and actively seeks ways to better unleash that value. Lori is both a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) and a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP). Her expertise spans enterprise information architecture, data quality, master data management, data governance, common message modeling and many other information specialties. Currently, Lori leads an Enterprise Architecture (EA) team at Fiserv, a leading global provider of information management and electronic commerce systems for the financial services industry.

Patrick Genyn holds the position of Senior Director Drug Development Information Governance at Janssen Research & Development, LLC, one of the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Genyn has 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He joined the Janssen Research Foundation in Beerse, Belgium in 1987 and has moved through different positions and responsibilities in Information Technology and Clinical Development. Mr. Genyn also taught Clinical Data Management as part of the Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs graduate program at Temple University for several years. Currently, based in Titusville, New Jersey, he is leading an initiative for implementing and operating a Master Data Governance and Management capability across the drug development organizations. Mr. Genyn received his Masters in Business from Vrije Universiteit Brussel.