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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.

As Vice President of Data Solutions and Information Strategy at PIMCO, Dr. Carl Salz is overseeing the rollout of the SEMARCHY platform for MDM and Data Governance. Previously, Dr. Salz held director level IT and Business Intelligence positions at Janus Capital Group and Charles Schwab & Co. He received his Bachelor in Management Information Systems from Greenville College (IL) and subsequently received his MBA and doctorate (Management in Organizational Leadership with a Specialization in Information Systems and Technology) from the University of Phoenix.

Lydia J. E. Reid joined American Family Insurance�s new Enterprise Data Management department in November 2013 as the first Metadata and Reference Data Manager. Since joining AmFam, Lydia has worked with I/S to implement and populate a centralized metadata repository tool, structured and begun to populate AmFam�s common business vocabulary, and hired a strong team to implement enterprise metadata management. For a short while Lydia also managed EDM�s Data Governance and Data Quality team until a permanent manager was brought on board. Lydia is also Secretary for and Board Member of the Data Governance Professionals Organization. Prior to working at AmFam, Lydia was a Metadata Analyst for UW Health's data warehousing division. As the first incumbent in that role, Lydia implemented UW�s metadata tool and initiated a metadata management process. Lydia spent the majority of her early career at the National Archives in Washington, DC where she was the product owner of the agency's first centralized, descriptive catalog for all the Archives' historical records. While at the National Archives, Lydia led the effort to establish metadata standards and represented the Archives on several national and international metadata standards� committees. Lydia has a BA and MA in History from Washington and Lee University and the University of Virginia, respectively. She also has a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland.

Scott Cohanpour is an industry thought-leader and a frequent speaker on the topic of Information Management and Big Data Analytics. Mr. Cohanpour is currently the CDO and the Group Head of Master Data Management at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. He has received a number of industry recognitions and most recently the 2013 Gartner's MDM Excellence Award for his presentation on �Developing an RDM Road Map & Target Operating Model.� Mr. Cohanpour received his BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Hofstra University.

Kiran Gill is Director with Trillium Software�s Strategic Consulting team. She has over 15 years of experience working with data in various sectors. She has a strong background in Data quality, strategy, management, marketing and performance.Her focus is to ensure that data is used as an asset and is maximised for a variety of purposes. She works with clients to enable transformation, optimisation and maintenance of their data. This covers areas such as data governance, compliance, global data management, single customer view and online/offline integration.Kiran has expertise in creating large scale data management programmes across the Public and Private Sectors. Her work has involved implementing change and migration programmes and strategies to facilitate robust data management and data usage across global organisations.She has worked with Utilities, Retail, Healthcare, Automotive, Financial and IT organisations to help embed a data driven approach with an aligned business strategy. She works to enable businesses to trust their data and to understand that data is the glue that holds them together.