Speakers

As Director of Product Management, Francois Ajenstat is responsible for product strategy and product planning combining customer and partner feedback to set the strategic vision and leading the execution of new features and products. Prior to joining Tableau, Francois worked at Microsoft for 10 years in a number of different groups including SQL Server, Office and Trustworthy Computing. Prior to joining Microsoft, Francois worked for Cognos Corporation (acquired by IBM) leading strategic alliances with key industry partners such as IBM, HP, and Microsoft.
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Giedre Aleknonyte is a Business Analyst on the Billing & Revenue Assurance team at Kabel Deutschland, Germany's largest cable operator. She enjoys analyzing large datasets and unveiling trends that can be translated into smart business decisions. Prior to joining Kabel Deutschland, she worked in the Marketing area of the Vodafone partner network in Lithuania and was the company's Tableau rockstar.

Giedre holds a BS in Computer Science from Vilnius University and is currently finishing her MS in Computer Science at the Distance University of Hagen. A dataviz enthusiast, she tweets on visualization and related topics at @googlea.
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Ty Alevizos is a Senior Sales Consultant for Tableau Software. Ty joined Tableau in April of 2008 and brought with him 15 years experience in software sales, design, and release management. Prior to coming to Tableau, Ty held several positions at I-many Inc., WindRiver Systems and Netopia Inc. Ty graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in music composition.
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Alexander Baker is a senior quantitative risk developer at Cheyne Capital providing financial analytics across the Risk and Portfolio Management groups. He has over 15 years experience in the financial industry working for Morgan Stanley and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Alex particularly enjoys the problem solving aspects of computer science, in particular speed Rubik's cubing. He holds an MEng and a BSc in Physics from University College London, he is an Associate Member of the Institute of Physics and is undertaking a PhD in Atomic and Molecular Physics.
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Martijn Beijk has over 5 years of experience in online marketing, providing Search Engine Optimization and Web Analytics consultancy for companies like American Express, Conrad Electronic, Schiphol Amsterdam Airport and Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM).

His experience shows not only how to attract visitors to your website, but by means of analysis also shows how to spend your online marketing budget wisely for the best visitor engagement (reach, sell and engage). Onetomarket uses Tableau Software to visualize hard to interpret web analytics data into meaningful insights for their clients.

Martijn, is also a frequent blogger on various Search Engine Marketing websites, a lecturer at Universities throughout the Netherlands and co–writer of both the book 'Handboek SEO' and 'Handboek Conversie Optimalisatie'. In his spare time he enjoys traveling and providing people with deeper analysis of his vinyl collection; spinning tunes at various clubs.
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Albert Birck's big passion is to drive the corporate value creation through performance management. By empowering the organization with actionable, transparent and high quality performance information everybody is able to question current practices and strive for improvements.

During his career Albert has worked within several industries and different functional areas in order to manage performance management from top-to-bottom and end-to-end: Strategy development and M&A, optimization projects and operational efficiency. Focus has been on coherently linking business performance (BP), individual performance (IP) and process performance (PP) initiatives together to align the corporation.

He hates flashy BI solutions and finds it hard to not get disappointed by the low maturity level for most software solutions claiming to support performance initiatives.

Albert holds a M.Sc. in economics from the University of Copenhagen (DK) and is finalizing an MBA from Henley Business School (UK) with a dissertation on performance management. He enjoys martial arts to relax and as the ultimate 'hands-on' way of driving personal performance to avoid getting a friendly beating.
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Mark Bullins is a Business Director at Mindshare, a global media network focused on making its clients' brands more famous and more profitable. As part of the Business Planning department, Mark is focused on using consumer insight and data to develop client strategies. His strong background using data analysis to provide insight and advice and his expertise using a wide variety of econometric and other advanced statistical techniques contribute to his ability to add value to clients in categories such as media owners, retailers and the public sector. Prior to joining Mindshare, Mark was a Business Analyst for Pricewaterhouse Coopers. He earned his B.Sc. in Economics from University College London, University of London.
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Andy Cotgreave is a Senior Data Analyst at the University of Oxford. He manages the student reporting team and has been using Tableau since v3.1. Since his team acquired a single license in October 2007, Oxford's use of Tableau has grown, and they now have a core Server license used across the university. Andy also organized the first ever Tableau user group meeting, in the UK in July 2009. He is also an evangelist for Tableau, actively contributing to the global buzz via the forums, blogs and Twitter.
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Meredith joined Tableau in 2010 and has 15 years of experience in the Business Intelligence and Performance Management arena including such diverse areas as GIS and Financial Consolidation. He has always had a keen interest in usability and in previous product management roles has constantly strived to build products that work the way the users do. In Tableau Software he has found a company of people who share this passion. He has a postgraduate degree in Geography, with a dissertation in HCI.
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Lee Feinberg joined Nokia in 2009 with the vision of "making data a part of every conversation." Lee's team has since brought Tableau into Nokia, providing 500+ employees access to dashboards and analysis. He is a member of Tableau's Customer Advocacy Board and founder of the Tableau NJ/NY User Group. Lee joined Nokia from his management consulting practice Unfair Revenue, which helped clients identify growth opportunities using the Internet, social marketing, and mobile platforms. The firm guided investment decisions by gaining control of customer information and interactions in digital channels.

Previously, as strategy director at Microsoft-Razorfish on the Ford Motor Company account, Lee established an analytics performance management practice and launched the social media site autoshows.ford.com. Lee also worked at Digitas, where he served on IBM's corporate task force to define online metrics standards and introduced visualisation technology that became a new service in Digitas' Media Operations division. He has worked in online analytics since 2002.

Lee has a history of driving change at the world's leading companies including AT&T, CIBC, JP Morgan Chase, and Johnson & Johnson. He received a B.S. and M.S. from Cornell University and holds a U.S. Patent for a PC-telephone interface. Lee is a member of the Cornell Entrepreneur Network and the Sandler Sales Institute. He also serves as an advisor to the social marketing technology companies Pheedo and GraffitiWall.
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Elissa Fink is Tableau Software’s Vice President of Marketing. With 20+ years helping companies improve their marketing operations through applied data analysis, Elissa has held executive positions in marketing, business strategy, product management, and product development.
Prior to Tableau, Elissa was EVP Marketing at IXI Corporation, a firm specializing in marketing information. She has also served in executive positions at Tele Atlas, TopTier Software, and Claritas, Inc. Elissa also spent time selling advertising for the Wall Street Journal. Elissa holds a B.A. from Santa Clara University and an MBA in Marketing and Decision Systems from the University of Southern California.
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Dan Holle is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Vertica Systems (an HP Company). In this capacity, Dan works with Vertica's engineering and product management teams to define Vertica's technology vision and long-term strategy, and also engages with customers to gather feedback that helps drive the product development cycle.

Prior to Vertica, Dan was the CTO of Business Intelligence at HP, driving HP's product direction for data warehousing and analytics. Prior to HP, Dan was CTO and one of the original software engineers at Teradata, defining significant parts of Teradata's original data warehousing architecture, as well as creating their query optimizer. Dan was head of Product Strategy at Whitecross (now Kognitio), and has also held leadership positions at a number of start-ups. Dan holds patents in data mining, user interfaces, and database architecture, was a member of the SQL standards committee, and has been personally involved in over 100 data warehouse implementations.
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Dan Jewett is Tableau Software's Vice President of Product Management. Dan joined Tableau from Hyperion Solutions where he was VP of Development responsible for the business intelligence products, including Interactive Reporting, Financial Reporting, Web Analysis, SQR, and the System 9 Workspace. Prior to Hyperion Dan was at Brio Software serving in a number of capacities including VP of Business Intelligence and VP of System Architecture. Dan holds a bachelor's degree in business from California State University, Sacramento, and a master's degree in business administration (finance) from California State University, Long Beach.
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Jock Mackinlay is Tableau Software's Director of Visual Analysis. At Stanford University he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information. He joined Xerox PARC in 1986, where he collaborated with the User Interface Research Group to develop many novel applications of computer graphics for information access, coining the term "Information Visualization." Much of the fruits of this research can be seen in his book, "Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think." Jock has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
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As a Business Intelligence Consultant with The Data Studio LLP, Kevin Pemberton has experienced the use and misuse of Business Intelligence throughout 10 years of IT in practice. Having used Tableau since version 5, Kevin has applied Tableau in a wide range of business areas, with Oxford University being his current major client.

Outside of visualising everything he finds, Kevin is a PADI Scuba diving instructor and is currently learning to fly paragliders. Mention where the nearest Apple store is if you want to get rid of him!

Blogging alongside Andy Cotgreave you'll find him at www.thedatastudio.co.uk/blog or @kevpem.
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Fawad Asrar Qureshi is currently working as Product Manager for Teradata Corporation in EMEA region (Europe, Middle East & Africa). He holds a Masters in Business Administration along with a Masters in Computer Engineering and a Bachelors of Software Engineering; he is an enterprising young professional having a perfect combination of business and IT. He is also a Certified Teradata Master.

With more than eight years of experience in the IT industry, he has been involved in the development and implementation of Active Enterprise solutions in EMEA. He has gained extensive knowledge of setting up Contact Centers and Data Warehouses. He has participated in a number of conferences and workshops on the utilization of data warehousing and contact centers in organizations.

Based in Islamabad, Mr. Qureshi can speak with both technical and business audiences on Data warehousing, Performance Management Dashboards, Contact Center Solutions and Product Marketing and how these technologies can be integrated to measure, monitor and enhance overall business performance.
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Marc Rueter is Tableau Software’s Director of Sales Consulting. Prior to Tableau, he held positions at MicroStrategy and Siebel Systems. At Siebel, he led a team that developed successful applications for retailers. Marc also plays an instrumental role in Tableau’s product development, providing critical input based on his experience helping clients with large projects. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer for SQLServer. Marc holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of Washington.
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After finishing his master in Geographical Information Systems in 1992 Gertjan started working as a consultant for a company specialized in implementing Management Information Systems for large companies.

In 1997, Gertjan began as a researcher for Locatus, market leader in the field of independently sourced retail information in the Benelux. The database of Locatus provides property-level information, information about shopping and catchment areas in the Benelux. In 2005 he was promoted to COO. As COO Gertjan is responsible for the data collection, providing the data to our customers and the research department, and recently started the expansion of Locatus to other European countries.
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Mel loves how good business intelligence requires you to draw on a range of skills such as intelligently applied IT, establishing people's true motivations, keeping an eye on the finances, seeking out the real drivers of the organization, aligning objectives with strategy, great dashboard design and bringing all of this together in something that benefits the organization. Mel has a degree in Economics, a Masters in Japanese and spent the 90s working in a Japanese bank doing futures and options. Mel also has a black belt in judo and can be dangerous when startled by people in white suits.
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Jen Stirrup is a freelance consultant who has been implementing Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions since SQL Server 2000, and Tableau since version 5.2. with a special interest in data visualization. Jen helps to run the UK Tableau User Group so please feel free to ask her about the lively group! Jen is often to be found tweeting on data visualization at @jenstirrup, and actively blogging at www.jenstirrup.com
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Wade Stokes is the Senior Analyst in Swedbank's Group Finance Analysis & Planning department. Wade worked as CFO of Swedbank Estonia during the boom years and as Head of Baltic Credit Risk Analysis during the financial crisis. Previously, Wade worked as CFO for several mobile telecommunications companies in the Baltics, Russia, and Denmark.

A U.S. citizen, Wade moved to Estonia in 1994 on a one-year assignment, and has not managed yet to move back. A fan of information visualization since reading Edward Tufte's first book, Wade won the inaugural Best Excel Dashboard competition from Bonavista Systems in 2008. He holds a MM degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in applied mathematics from Harvard University.
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Ole Vossnack is the founder of Quantum Business Intelligence Services and works with his clients from a wide range of industries to estabalish effective business intelligence strategies. Prior to founding Quantum, Ole was Vice President of Business Intelligence at Credit Suisse. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University and was a staff member at the CERN Partical Physics Laboratory. Find him on Twitter @vossnack.
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