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Matthew France is chief financial officer at GCE, a leading cloud-based financial accounting services provider.

Ryan Sobel is director, secure mobile solutions at Iron Bow Technologies.

Bruce Kratz is the vice president of R&D at Sparta Systems, a provider of Enterprise Quality Management Systems to customers seeking to deliver products safely and efficiently. He has a successful track record of leading enterprise software teams and has close to 25 years of product development experience. Prior to Sparta Systems, Kratz held director level positions at IBM, HP and other smaller start-ups.�

Elliott Cordo is a data warehouse and information management expert with a passion for helping companies transform their data into powerful information, so they can better manage their financial and operational performance. He has more than a decade of experience in implementing data solutions with hands-on experience in every component of the data warehouse software development lifecycle. This experience, combined with business acumen is proven to be a winning combination for our clients. Cordo�s role within Caserta Concepts is to oversee large-scale major technology projects, including those involving business intelligence, data analytics, big data and data warehousing. He may be reached at elliott@casertaconcetps.com.

Sridhar Jagannathan, Ph.D., is chief innovation officer for Persistent Systems Inc.

Jonas Olsson is the CEO and founder of Graz, a data warehouse software company. You can contact the author at jonas.olsson@graz.se.�

Kshira Saagar, a manager with Mu Sigma, provides data analytics expertise to Fortune 500 clients within the �technology, pharmaceutical and retail industries.

Susan Majcher is a senior data governance analyst & and solution deliver manager at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) where she is responsible for various aspects of the data governance program including leading data quality strategy initiatives.

Jill Dych� is Vice President of Best Practices at SAS. She has counseled executive teams and boards of directors on the strategic im�portance of their information investments.Jill is a featured speaker at industry conferences, university programs, and vendor events. She judges several best practices awards, is on the faculty of The Data Ware�housing Institute, and is an active blogger. Jill was the co-founder of Baseline Consulting, a management consulting firm that was acquired by SAS in 2011.Her first book, e-Data has been published in eight languages, and she is the author of The CRM Handbook, a best-seller. Her work has been featured in major publications such as Computerworld, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek.com, and Forbes.com. Her last book, Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth, was the first book on the topic of Master Data Management. Her forthcoming book, The New IT, will be published by McGraw-Hill later this year.�

Bill Ferguson is the Principle Consultant for all MDM projects for the Kellogg Company. In this capacity, and for the past three years, Mr. Ferguson is the Global Data Governance Officer, as well as MDM Program Manager. He led the selection process for the MDM software vendor and has also led Global Kellogg MDM implementations for Nutrition Management, Logistics, Legal Claims, Consumer Affairs, Packaging and Digital Marketing. Mr. Ferguson designed and delivered the global brand web site development and delivery process which now reaches over 200 web sites in 20 languages, representing a significant ROI for speed to market, and even higher reduction of web site cost. Currently, he is leading the effort to consolidate 12 GDSN data pool providers into a single global instance to facilitate data management, 2014 European nutrition labeling regulatory requirements, pending changes to the US Food Safety Awareness Act, as well as big box North American and European retail customer data requirements. In addition, Mr. Ferguson designed and implemented the Kellogg Global Data Governance program.Currently, he reports to the Kellogg Sr. Director of Digital Enablement, Chairs three regional MDM Executive Steering Committees, and is a member of the Global MDM ESC comprised of Kellogg Executive Management. A former Navy Nuclear Engineer, Mr. Ferguson has been consulting in the MDM, E-commerce and ERP arenas for 18 years. He led the largest Wholesale Distribution ERP in the Southern Hemisphere, has managed multiple Global ERP and Supply Chain implementations, as well as led Digital Marketing projects representing the CPG, Pharmaceutical, and Distribution industries. In addition to being awarded PMP certification in 2003, he also earned a Masters Certification in Project Management from Villanova, and was JD Edwards Project Manager of the Year.