Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Mark Troester oversees the company’s marketing efforts for SAS’ CIO and IT strategy, a strategy that spans Information Management, High Performance Analytics, OnDemand Cloud, and IT Intelligence solutions. These technologies provide critical support for SAS’ overall Business Analytics portfolio, including its business and industry solutions, providing superior performance, scalability, manageability and deployment flexibility. Troester provides thought leadership for key topics such as Big Data, IT/Business collaboration, as well as the critical role that IT plays with analytics.

Alex Bentley is a Principal Product Manager for IBM Infosphere MDM, joining IBM in 2010. Over the past 15 years, he has led Agile technical product management teams at multiple acquired venture backed start-ups - primarily focused on high-tech, automotive & financial industries. He holds a degree from Purdue University in Chemical Engineering.

Mike DeNapoli is a Virtualization Solution Architect at Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets. For more information, please visit Vision Solutions.

Tracy Schulz is Senior Director - Finance with specific oversight to the implementation of automation initiatives for the Finance unit of BMC Software. Tracy has been with BMC for almost 15yrs in various FP&A roles exposing her to the use and nuances of BMC’s business data. In addition to her Finance automation responsibilities, Tracy has been leading the resurgence of Data Governance within BMC since January 2012. Tracy holds a BBA from Baylor University and an MBA from the University of Houston.

Jennifer has been with IBM for 9 years and has held positions in Global Business Services, product management and product marketing.  She is currently Product Marketing manager for IBM InfoSphere MDM.  Recently, Jennifer has been focused on MDM in the era of big data.  

Ryan Bell is a user interface developer for EffectiveUI, where he gets to employ his passion for building great user experiences and indulge his inner information-design enthusiast.

Tracy E. Houston, M.A. is a board advisory consultant and offers a board candidate positioning engagement for emerging directors. She is the creator of the Board Guru Governance eBook Series. For more information visit: eboardmember.com or email hello@eboardmember.com.

Richard Hughes is the Director of Product Strategy at BroadVision, and a thought leader on the use of social networking in business. During his 13 years at BroadVision, he has advised major companies around the world on their strategies and implementations of eCommerce, portal and social networking software.

Harsha Rao is a Senior Manager at Mu Sigma where he oversees delivery for clients in the financial services and technology space. His current interests lie in the space of Big Data as well as Risk Management. Prior to Mu Sigma, Harsha was at a leading U.S. bank where he focused on credit risk management. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University.

Mr. O’Neil is a Product Manager on IBM’s MDM team and an evangelist on the merits of an MDM approach for the governance and stewardship of enterprise reference data. He is currently leading the development of IBM’s Reference Data Management Hub – an MDM domain and stewardship application specifically designed for management of enterprise reference data.� He has helped to define the IBM strategy around applying an MDM approach to managing reference data and is responsible for bringing the current RDM application from its inception to market.