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Bill Giard is a Senior Enterprise Architect in the IT organization and joined Intel in 1996. He started at Intel working on the design engineering application and has since been involved in deploying large enterprise capabilities across the company. Mr. Giard has spent the majority of his career helping to improve master data and product data management capabilities and is responsible for the MDM and PLM architecture for Intel. He has helped the company deploy a central instance for product data management, including product excursion and issue management, environmental compliance, and external collaboration capabilities in conjunction with a master data foundation that links product lifecycle and PLM with supply planning and ERP.

Sam Alapati is Senior Technical Director, Miro Consulting Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University and conducted post doctoral research in Information Systems at the University of Texas at Austin.

Based in Silicon Valley, Brian Babineau serves as Vice President of Research and Analyst Services for Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

Dr. David Steier is a director in Deloitte LLP, where he co-leads a group in the U.S. Deloitte Analytics Institute focused on advanced analytics and visualization. Prior to joining Deloitte, Steier worked at PwC, where he served as director of the Center for Advanced Research, and previously as a managing director at Scient.

Sunil Soares is the founder and managing partner of Information Asset, a consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations build out their data governance programs. Prior to this role, Sunil was the Director of Information Governance at IBM, and worked with clients across six continents and multiple industries.Sunil is the author of several books including The IBM Data Governance Unified Process, Selling Information Governance to the Business, Big Data Governance, Data Governance Tools and The Chief Data Officer Handbook for Data Governance.

April Reeve has spent the last 25 years working as an enterprise architect and program manager. Currently she is working for EMC Consulting as an Advisory Consultant in the Enterprise Information Management practice.April is an expert in multiple Data Management disciplines including Data Governance, Data Integration, Big Data, Data Conversion, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Enterprise Information Architecture, and Metadata.She is the author of “Managing Data In Motion: Best Practice Data Integration Techniques and Technologies” which is published by Morgan Kaufmann. April goes by the handle @DataGrrl on Twitter and blogs on Data Management topics at https://infocus.emc.com/author/april_reeve/

Jorge A. Lopez, Senior Manager, Data Integration at Syncsort Incorporated, has more than a decade of experience in the Data Integration and Business Intelligence markets. He is based in Reston, Va. and can be reached at jlopez@syncsort.com.