Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Sandra Recca's career spans two decades of business systems leadership in both executive and consulting roles. She leads initiatives to strengthen operational effectiveness and system security. She has developed and managed teams at Moody's, The Jones Group, Kurt Salmon Associates and Grant Thornton. At Moody’s she focuses on Data Governance and ensuring that data best practices are followed. Sandra’s other areas of expertise include:- Business Architecture - IT Strategy and Operations- Software Selection and Implementation- Business Process Analysis Ms Recca holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BA from the University of Chicago in Politics, Economics, Rhetoric and Law

Mahesh Kumar is the vice president of strategy of BDNA Corporation, creator of Technopedia, the world�s largest IT reference catalog, with more than 450,000 hardware and software products listed from more than 11,000 vendors.

Dr. Werner Hopf is CEO of Dolphin. He may be reached at Werner.Hopf@dolphin-corp.com.

Mike Lempner is the lead executive of Infinitive�s Data/BI practice. �Lempner has significant experience in data warehousing, big data and business intelligence solutions across multiple industries including financial services, retail, telecommunications, media and defense. �He has leveraged his analytical and organizational skills to provide leadership for large systems integrations and data conversion efforts. �He has a consistent track record of implementing strategic projects, building and leading teams, fostering innovation and achieving business results.

Rachel Delacour is CEO and co-founder of BIME, a European startup that empowers businesses of any size to profit in era of big data.

James Richardson is a senior director of product marketing at QlikTech. Prior to this role, Richardson spent six years as a Gartner analyst covering business intelligence and analytics. During his tenure, he was the lead author of the Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms report, and chaired and keynoted Gartner�s European BI summit. Before Gartner, Richardson spent 13 years at Hyperion in product marketing and market intelligence roles.

Vincent �Vin� Siegfried has been pushing the operating envelope on data in some of the largest global companies for over 20 years, delivering solutions as well as advising C-suite staff. Mr. Siegfried has the ability to see the whole picture, including strategy, tactics, aspirational goals, blocking factors and potential leap-forward opportunities. He has been called upon to plan, lead, put in place roadmaps, integrate with a global or local team, and to manage disruptive new data technology into a positive force for the enterprise. Recently Mr. Siegfried advised the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on how to implement data governance to monitor and manage billions of transactions; advised an innovative data-driven investment management firm on how to scale their data operations; directed a 100+ resource Global Enterprise Data Governance and Data Warehouse development. For a large global bank delivered a 100 million account and customer MDM solution, using DWL product set, including near-real-time analytics on new account openings and consumer product acquisition activity. He has been awarded CIO magazine�s award for Client Profitability, top 100 integrated applications IT Manager of the Year Award from Oracle�magazine. He also serves as the Chief Operating and Technology Officer for Atrocity Watch, a not-for-profit focused on using big data solutions to identify precursors to global atrocities in the service of humanitarian analysts.