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Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.

Steven Pressland

Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Augmented Analytics

Company: Qlik

Steven is the Product Manager responsible for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning. Having spent many year delivering analytics solutions across a wide range of enterprise customers he moved to Qlik where he worked for 4 years in our pre-sales team helping our largest customers deliver value. For the last 3 years he has been a Product Manager driving the strategy for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning.

Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.

Steven Pressland

Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Augmented Analytics

Company: Qlik

Steven is the Product Manager responsible for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning. Having spent many year delivering analytics solutions across a wide range of enterprise customers he moved to Qlik where he worked for 4 years in our pre-sales team helping our largest customers deliver value. For the last 3 years he has been a Product Manager driving the strategy for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning.

CJ Bauder

Company: JBS

Welcome - my name is CJ Bauder and I work on the Qlik Team at JBS! I began working with JBS in 2016, and spent 5 years working in the business as an analyst. Early on, while gaining understanding of business processes, I taught myself QlikView/Sense scripting and dashboarding so we could begin leveraging these powerful visualization tools. The experience has given me a business oriented perspective into dashboard design, data architecture, and usability. Now I am excited to be a part of our Qlik Team, bringing those same learnings into the I.T. division for our company! Our session today will present our model for business engagement and success using Qlik Products. These tools empower our business to connect to data, curate a self service environment, and allow business to drive improvement from the ground. Creating the most fluid and friction free analytics tools is crucial to success in a self service world. We hope you will join us to further the capability of your team today!

Allen Cor

Job Title: BI Analyst

Company: JBS

Allen Corona is a Qlik Developer at JBS USA, Where Allen develops Qlik Sense applications and assistance business units on Qlik needs.

Luis Galvan Valadez

Job Title: Qlik Analyst

Company: JBS

I am a trilingual business intelligence analyst with more than +5 years of experience in data analytics. I have had the change to work in different industries such as Banking and food processing. My career experience started in 2010 when I joined National Bank of Canada ( the 6th largest bank of Canada). I started working as credit analyst in the MasterCard credit department, and my last position was business intelligence analyst in the QA retail division. In 2015, I had the opportunity to join JBS Canada Foods (a division of JBSSA) as business analyst. I spent 3 years as business analysts in multiple line of business such as Sales, Operations and Production, Finance, and Logistics. Though these years, I learnt the business scope at a detail level, and apply data analytics to provide insights. I was reached by BI Team, in the corporate (Greeley, CO), and in October of 2019 I joined this team. Since then, I have expanded the knowledge acquire in the Canada division, and apply it to a large scale to other protein division in the company. Also, I have had the change to train, and develop new employees in the company to use Qlik technologies, provide continuous support to Qlik developers, and work with internal and external stakeholders in multiple projects such as process improvements, creation of Dashboards, and data pipelines.

Steph Robinson

Job Title: Qlik Manager JBS USA

Company: JBS

Stephanie Robinson is has been a Qlik Luminary for 3 years. She is the Business Intelligence Manager for the Qlik space at JBS foods USA and runs a team of 6 Qlik team members. She has been working JBS for 3 years and working in BI for over 20 years.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Michael Distler is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik and is responsible for messaging and go-to-market strategies related to catalog & lineage, Qlik Data Integration, Big Data and IoT. Prior to joining Qlik, Michael was responsible for product marketing of PTC’s Windchill PLM product line along with related solutions. Before that Michael held various marketing and consulting services leadership roles in several manufacturing and engineering software companies.

David Hufnagle

Job Title: Manager, Enterprise Data and Analytics

Company: Greene Tweed

Dave Hufnagle has over 30 years of I.T. experience. For the past 25+ years, that experience has been primarily focused in the Business Intelligence / Analytics space. As both an employee and a consultant, Dave has helped corporations in the Fortune 500 and smaller, private companies achieve performance results through analytics. Over the past 10 years, Dave has been leading organizations to the cloud by designing solutions in AWS and Azure. As a data and solutions architect, he has engineered solutions that focus on near real-time analytics. "We are used to having information available at our finger tips in real time. We should expect the same of our analytics solutions!"

Patric Nordström

Job Title: Product Manager, Qlik Sense Visualizations and GeoAnalytics

Company: Qlik

Patric Nordström was the CEO and co-founder of Idevio, the mapping company Qlik acquired in 2016. After the merger Patric became the product manager for Qlik GeoAnalytics and Qlik Sense visualizations. Idevio was founded in 2003 and provided state of the art geographic software products for decision support and resource planning to clients such as Volvo, Schenker and the Swedish Armed Forces. Patric has more than twenty years of experience of project management and geographic software production. He has two Master Degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University and lives on the west coast of Sweden with his wife and two children.

Nicole Tamms

Job Title: Senior Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

Nicole Tamms is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager within the global products organization at Qlik. Drawing upon more than 20 years of software industry experience, Nicole is focused on go-to-market strategy, enablement and content creation supporting customer retention and visualization capabilities. She has been with Qlik close to four years, after spending much of her career with Quest Software, where she drove product marketing for their flagship database and data prep tools the previous 12 years. Nicole holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from Long Beach State University. She is a Southern California native, currently living in Long Beach, CA with her husband, two children, pit bull mix Bowen, bearded dragon Spike, and guinea pig Freedom.

Yuliya Kiperberg

Job Title: Product Manager

Company: Qlik

My name is Yuliya Cashman-Kiperberg, I'm the Product Manager for QlikView, Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows, Qlik Sense Mobile, and Accessibility. I've been at Qlik for a bit over a year now. Prior to Qlik, I spent several years in Data and Analytics at BNY Mellon as a Product Owner, developing an Information Delivery product that allowed clients to better understand, validate, and visualize large amounts of financial data in various dashboards and reports.

Andrew Kruger

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Company: Qlik

Senior Product Manager

Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.

Clive Bearman

Job Title: Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Piet-Michiel Rappelet

Job Title: Senior Product Manager Qlik Application Automation

Piet-Michiel Rappelet is the product manager for Qlik Application Automation and joined Qlik end of 2020 as part of the Blendr.io acquisition. Blendr.io is a powerful, hyper-scalable and secure integration platform (iPaaS) for Enterprises and SaaS companies and was released as Qlik Application Automation in Qlik's Active intelligence platform. It provides both technical and business users the ability to easily automate and orchestrate their analytics data pipeline, achieving a state of Active Intelligence. Piet-Michiel is 10+ years active in cloud software development as program, product, or architect lead and before Qlik, he joined Daltix, a big data startup in retail, and Blendr.io as COO, focusing on product and company growth.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Michael Distler is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik and is responsible for messaging and go-to-market strategies related to catalog & lineage, Qlik Data Integration, Big Data and IoT. Prior to joining Qlik, Michael was responsible for product marketing of PTC’s Windchill PLM product line along with related solutions. Before that Michael held various marketing and consulting services leadership roles in several manufacturing and engineering software companies.

Chris Ortega

Company: Qlik

Chris is the product manager for Qlik Catalog and Lineage capabilities and products and has over thirty years of experience in leading the delivery of large scale data solutions in the areas of data architecture and analytics. Chris was the Director of Data Architecture for Fidelity Investments where he architected the database to manage the firm’s fixed income trading and portfolio & risk management systems. He also served as the Chief of Operations for RGI Informatics, a healthcare analytics company, where he oversaw a 7x growth in company valuation. Chris was the Information Management practice lead for Hawkins Point Partners and Axis Technology and has provided his expertise to companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, United Healthcare, Epsilon, Publishers Clearing House, Readers Digest, March of Dimes, and Biogen. Chris holds a BA in Computer Science from Boston College.

Josh Good

Job Title: VP Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

In his role as Vice President, Product Marketing Data Analytics at Qlik, Josh is responsible to drive product marketing, messaging, go-to-market strategies and thought leadership for Qlik’s Data Analytics business. Josh has spent over a decade in the BI and analytics space, as a customer, seller and marketer. In all his roles, he has been a leader in business transformation and innovation, most recently focusing on Qlik’s transformation from visual analytics company to an end-to-end data analytics cloud provider. He is well known for his engaging personal presentation style and rich demos. Prior to Qlik, Josh led business intelligence and analytics projects at a premium outdoor clothing company. He also has experience in government acquisitions and biomechanical research. He holds a Bachelor's of Applied Science and a Master's of Science from Queen's University. Josh resides in Canada.

Vitaliy Trenkenshu

Job Title: Managing Partner

Company: datanomix.pro

Vitaliy Trenkenshu, Managing Partner at datanomix.pro, a Qlik® Solution Provider. Specializes in helping regulatory government agencies to effectively use data analysis to combat economic and corruption crime. Develops analytical applications that compare data from many different sources, find anomalies, suspicious transactions. These tools focus the attention of auditors on the riskiest transactions, thereby increasing the effectiveness of audits. He developed a new methodology for data analysis for calculating economic and corruption risks in public procurement, which contains 43 risks at all stages from the planning to payments. Over the past 12 years, he has led several large projects in data analysis for law enforcement and regulatory authorities of Kazakhstan: the General Prosecutor's Office, the Financial Monitoring Agency (Economic Investigation Service), the Internal State Audit Committee, the Financial Police, and others. The developed analytical systems revealed various corruption risks and red flags in public procurement, tax evasion, registering shell companies (recorded on nominees), and other violations that cause economic damage to the state. Based on the identified risk factors, auditors did spot checks. In some cases, it was possible to compensate for the damage. And in many cases, they were able to prevent financial losses if the risk was identified at an early stage. The largest anti-fraud data analysis project has brought more than $ 600 million in economic impact.

Pushpendra Arora

Job Title: Director, Data Platform & Vis Analytics

Company: Novartis

Pushpendra Arora leads Data Platform and Visual Analytics for the Novartis Oncology Business unit. As part of his role he is responsible for strategizing and leading the data enablement and visual analytics initiatives across the commercial domain in US Oncology. Pushpendra joined Novartis in 2019 and has held roles of increasing responsibility resulting in extensive cross-cultural, functional experience in commercial Data and Insights domain.

Albert Mestre

Job Title: Associate Director Visual Analytics

Company: Novartis

Albert Mestre has vast experience leading reporting and Visual Analytics projects throughout his career, translating business needs into actionable analytic-focused visualization initiatives to provide solutions and recommendations to enable business excellence. As a member of the Visual Analytics team in Novartis Oncology Business unit, Albert leads solution architecture, delivery and quality assurance for all visualization tools development and operations.

Tyler Osterman

Company: SDG Group

I've been with SDG for a little over 2 1/2 years and working with Novartis for the last 2 years. We've used QlikSense to help transform the reporting infrastructure and environment from PPT to individual brand applications with a user intervention data model to an omnichannel reporting suite mashup approach to help revolutionize how Brands interact, explore, and investigate their data.

Brian Dunphy

Company: Dawn Meats Group

I am a Senior Project Manager for BI and Software Development in Dawn Meats Group based in the head office in the South East of Ireland. I have been with the company for 17 years and have been using Qlik since 2008 - growing the Qlik footprint in the company to over 500 users and 80+ applications across all areas of the business. In my spare time I like to keep fit and and I am kept busy enjoying life with my wife, 4 kids, 3 dogs and 2 cats!

Radovan Oresky

Job Title: Chief Data Officer

Company: EMARK

I believe in the Value of Data and help to create innovative solutions for Digital Transformation, Data Science, Visual Analytics, and Cloud Data. People in EMARK helped me grow from developer to CDO and Partner. But I still reserve some time to design and script customer apps, recently with focus on advanced analytics and planning. I started to use Qlik 14 years ago and I still love it today, because I'm able to change peoples lives with it (really!).

Maria Sandorova

Job Title: CTO

Company: Inphinity

Maria Oreska, Qlik Partner Ambassador and CTO at Inphinity, is a true data believer, innovator, and enthusiast. With her strong mathematical background she sees the potential of data not only in robotics or research but in understanding the world around us, our businesses, and clients' behavior, as well. At Inphinity she is responsible for the product portfolio, roadmaps, and native integration with Qlik Sense for everyone using the products, including admins and developers. The Qlik native Inphinity Suite is pushing the boundaries of data analytics as we know it moving towards true actionability and process intelligence: Inphinity Forms - the premium Qlik write-back extension, Inphinity Flow - process and hierarchies visualization, Inphinity Mole unstructured data connector. In her current role, she draws from her previous experience - Qlik developer, project manager, and SAP consultant for financial risks. In addition to leading the Inphinity technical team, she is fulfilling her mission to help people use and understand their data, by sharing her own inspirational content on social media, and being involved in some freelance projects regarding data. She led an international independent team that designed, developed, and published an online COVID-19 Interactive Analytics app. You can find her Qlik technical-related content also on the platform dataonthe.rocks.

John Delligatti

Job Title: Director Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Company: SDI

Qlik Luminary for 2021-2022, UiPath MVP 2022 and one of the winners of the 2021 MDM Future Leaders Award recognizing rising stars in the distribution industry under the age of 40, and SDI’s Director of Digital Supply Chain Transformation, John Delligatti is furthering the company's mission to change the way people think about and manage MRO & Facilities Maintenance. John drives innovation and improvement through anaytics, automation and digital product development to ensure SDI’s digital strategy is aligned with client and corporate goals. He oversees the lifecycle of SDI’s digital products while driving a data literacy culture and championing the adoption of robotic process automation across the organization. He has lead the development of applications that are reshaping the industrial supply and facilities management space. Additionally, he spearheaded the organizations Citizen Developer program, pioneering the use of RPA to automate functions that enable SDI to do more for their customers than ever before.

Steven Forster

Job Title: Supply Management Specialist

Company: Defense Logistics Agency

After graduating with a Digital Communications degree from Lebanon Valley College in 2005 there weren't many opportunities to utilize my education in central PA. I picked up the only job available at the time in the automotive service industry, which lead to working as an associate at Amazon which transitioned into becoming a forklift driver for Arnold Logistics. An opportunity presented itself to join Defense Logistics Agency as a Material Handler which I gladly took. Working in the warehouse isn't where I wanted to be but I knew it's what I had to do to get to where I wanted to be. Working my way through different promotions I left DLA for a position with the United States Army Security Assistance Command where I gained much of my experience in BI and analytics with a Tableau Certification and acquired my lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification from the Army Material Command in 2011. Being presented with an opportunity to return to DLA in 2015 I was able to acquire my MOST certification for Engineered labor standards as a part of the Business and Technology team in J4. In 2016 I was able to join our Operations and Workload Team where I was earned Qlik Certifications in Advanced Geo Analytics Development, Data Analytics, Data Literacy, Advanced-Data Modeling, and Advanced interface Design which allowed me to develop operational business intelligence applications for the DLA Distribution Enterprise. Some of these applications include our customer order fulfillment performance to all service members, support to the COVID strategic missions for the USNS Mercy and Comfort, Covid Vaccine Operations, Covid Test Kit Mission as well as several others.

David Freriks

Job Title: Technology Evangelist

Company: Qlik

David Freriks is an Technology Evangelist in the Technology Alliances Organization at Qlik. Dave’s mission (in his 9th year at Qlik) is to help spread the word on the power of the Qlik Platform with cloud/data systems and build integrations with partner technologies related to that ecosystem. He has spent 20+ years in the business intelligence space working at Qlik, SAP, IBM, and Cognos helping launch new products to market. Dave has a background in data warehousing and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Texas Tech University. He is married with two kids, and two Australian Shepherd’s.

Lauren Tran

Company: Microsoft

Lauren Tran is a Data Scientist and AI Architect at Microsoft. She works with Microsoft's top partners and customers to design, architect, and build their Machine Learning and AI solutions on Azure. She has been building custom Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision models for 10 years. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2014, she completed her Master's Degree in Computer Science at Dartmouth College, where she conducted research in the fields of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image Forensics, and Natural Language Processing.

Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.

Nick Magnuson

Job Title: Sr. Director, R&D-AutoML

Company: Qlik

Nick is the Senior Director, R&D-AutoML with the privilege of delivering on Qlik's vision for AI/machine learning. Nick joined Qlik through the acquisition of Big Squid.ai in the fall of 2021 where he was the firm's CEO. During his tenure as CEO, Big Squid transitioned to a fast-growing, customer-focused AI company, embracing modern SaaS practices, product-led growth, while fulfilling on the mission to simplify the adoption of AI/ML in business analytics. He held prior roles at Big Squid as head of product where he developed from inception the firm's AutoML platform, Kraken, as well as Customer Success where he pioneered the firm's SONAR© program. Nick has a long history around machine learning dating back to 2000 where he employed machine learning models as a quant investor in a variety of capacities for over 15 years. He is an alum of Dartmouth College.

Rafael Attux

Job Title: Qlik Data Architect Lead

Company: Leroy Merlin Brazil

Data enthusiast (Culture and Visualization), chosen as Luminary for the 3rd year in a row (since 2020), has been working with the Qlik environment for 9 years and currently leader of all DataViz platforms and strategies at Leroy Merlin Brazil

Ricardo Gerhard

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect - Latam

Company: Qlik

Qlik Solution Architect of the Year and President´s Club award 2020. With background in architecture and developing (+25 years), last 12 years working exclusively with Qlik products, Ricardo helped customers to get sucess in LATAM annd abroad large scale. Always available to discuss solutions and providing o guidance to the whole friends.

Chatelain Jeremy

Job Title: Data & Analytics Manager / Data Strategy Leader

Company: Gerente DataTeam

Formed as an industrial and computer engineer, I started my career as a Data Engineer at Capgemini in France. In 2015, I joined the ADEO group (third worldwide do it yourself company) working for the Leroy Merlin Brand in France assuming the management of Marketing and Central purchasing data projects. In 2018, 3 weeks before I got married with my wife Marine, I was called in Brazil to assume the responsibility of the data transformation ambitions of the Leroy Merlin local brand. 2022 will be a transition year for me. I should come back to Europe to assume the leadership of another data transformation plan in another brand of the same ADEO group! We will leave Brazil with emotion bringing back our two children born in São Paulo with us.

Paul Barth

Job Title: Global Head of Data Literacy

Company: Qlik

Dr. Paul Barth is the Global Head of Data Literacy for Qlik. Dr. Barth joined Qlik as CEO of Podium Data, which was acquired by Qlik in 2018 to create a next generation integrated data and analytics platform. He has spent decades developing advanced data and analytics solutions for Fortune 100 companies, and is a recognized thought-leader on business-driven data strategies and best practices. Prior to founding Podium Data, Paul co-founded NewVantage Partners, a boutique consultancy advising C-level executives at leading banking, investment, and insurance firms. Through his leadership roles at Schlumberger, Thinking Machines, Epsilon, Tessera, and iXL, Dr. Barth led the discovery and development of parallel processing and AI technologies to dramatically accelerate and simplify data management and analytics. Dr. Barth holds a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from Yale University, and PhD in Parallel Computing from MIT.

David Miller

Job Title: European Lead, Augmented Insights

Company: Accenture

David Miller is Accenture's European Lead for Augmented Insights, this team assists clients in developing data led-improvements in their business using human centric and data visualization approaches. He is passionate about working with clients to understand how a better understanding of their people, their processes and their data can lead to richer, more effective solutions. Through this work he has become an advocate of data literacy and data driven decision making. Supporting business to become data literate is key to businesses gaining the real benefits of the data revolution. He lives in England with his wife and two children.

Sam Netherwood

Company: Mudano

Swapnil Khekale

Job Title: Head of Intelligence Solutions Group

Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Swapnil Khekale is a global leader within Cognizant’s Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Practice and is heads the Global solution architecture team for Intelligence. Over his 23 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence and Analytics, Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence, he has led various leadership positions in sales, consulting, delivery and product management. As a trusted business advisor, his stakeholders leverage his insights in driving strategic blueprints in delivering the intelligence for the CMO, CDO, CFO and CIO organizations. Over the last two decades Swapnil has been instrumental in setting up dozens of Industry solutions and Industry offering. He is a recognized thought leader and Speaker in multiple Industry Forums and annual conferences.

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy is a Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect in Qlik's Global Enablement, Architecture and Research (GEAR) team. Leigh has been with Qlik for more than 8 years. Working in roles both in Professional Services and pre-sales at Qlik, Leigh is focused on helping Qlik's customers successfully transition their Qlik environments to Qlik Cloud. Leigh is based in Sydney, Australia.

Kyle Jourdan

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy is a Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect in Qlik's Global Enablement, Architecture and Research (GEAR) team. Leigh has been with Qlik for more than 8 years. Working in roles both in Professional Services and pre-sales at Qlik, Leigh is focused on helping Qlik's customers successfully transition their Qlik environments to Qlik Cloud. Leigh is based in Sydney, Australia.

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

Rocco leads Technical Product Marketing and go-to-market strategies for the technical and developer-centric components of Qlik’s Data Analytics product portfolio. Prior to Qlik, Rocco lead implementation teams and deployed Qlik across several industries and use cases such as Energy and smart meter networks, Pharmaceutical commercial operations, Retail supply-chain digitalization, and more. Rocco enjoys helping customers evolve and transform through the combination of technology and analytics prowess.

Paul Peterson

Job Title: Sr Director Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy & Compliance - Qlik Cloud Government

Company: Qlik

Paul Peterson is Sr. Director of Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform . Paul has been with Qlik for over three years and has Product Management responsibility for Security, Compliance, Privacy and Special Markets. Paul is also Product Manager for Qlik's U.S. Public sector SaaS offering, Qlik Cloud Government. Paul has over 20 years in Product Management spanning many disciplines and markets ranging from Analytics, to Performance & Capacity Management, Identity Management and Cloud Management.

Thomas Gorr

Job Title: Product Manager of Write!

Company: INFORM GmbH

Thomas Gorr has been a Qlik consultant at INFORM DataLab in Aachen, Germany since 2015. His first projects were implemented in QlikView, followed by other projects in Qlik Sense since its beginning. For a customer’s project, Thomas invented the first writeback solution on the Qlik market—the extension called “Write!”. The first version of “Write!”, developed for QlikView, was migrated to Qlik Sense later on. With increasingly more projects to follow, Thomas enhanced a simple extension to become an enterprise-ready product: the “Write!”-extension can solve a range of use cases from simple data entry and writeback, up to complex financial planning solutions with integrated budgeting & forecasting algorithms and automated approval workflows—directly in Qlik. Besides his expertise in data analytics and extension development, Thomas is quickly attuned to upcoming technology trends on the market, especially in Qlik, for pioneering new solutions and possibilities for customer requirements. Since partnering with Qlik, Thomas has consistently participated in Qlik and data events worldwide. Keeping in direct contact with Qlik R&D, Thomas aims to bring new impulses of his own and those of his customers to the official Qlik roadmap. Should you wish to contact Thomas, please feel free to email him at: thomas.gorr@inform-software.com

Kevin Heßhaus

Job Title: Presales Solutions Architect

Company: Inform Software GmbH

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

As Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, Hélène is responsible for Qlik’s cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategies, including the company’s value proposition, its product vision, innovation and direction, and its customer success approach. She has been with Qlik for 7 years and is based in Philadelphia, PA.

DAN SOMMER

Job Title: Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead

Company: Qlik

Dan leads Qlik’s Market Intelligence Program, responsible for supply, demand, macro, and micro picture. With 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, Dan is a frequent keynote speaker, blogger, and columnist. Dan previously held the position of Research Director for BI and Analytics at Gartner.

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

As Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, Hélène is responsible for Qlik’s cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategies, including the company’s value proposition, its product vision, innovation and direction, and its customer success approach. She has been with Qlik for 7 years and is based in Philadelphia, PA.

katie mackenzie

Company: Qlik

Katie is a Competitive Intelligence Manager who joined Qlik in 2013. She has been in the analytics space for more than 25 years starting in Customer Support in the early days of Business Intelligence. She has a passion for data and loves digging into any available data set. Katie enjoys helping customers understand the unique features that differentiate Qlik.

DAN SOMMER

Job Title: Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead

Company: Qlik

Dan leads Qlik’s Market Intelligence Program, responsible for supply, demand, macro, and micro picture. With 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, Dan is a frequent keynote speaker, blogger, and columnist. Dan previously held the position of Research Director for BI and Analytics at Gartner.

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo is a Master Principal Enterprise Architect with a passion for building relationships and delivering cloud solutions for global organisations. He moved across the leading software vendors in the last 20+ years playing the role of expert in technologies such as EAI, ETL, CDC, MDM, Search Engines, Advance Analytics, Active Intelligence. He thrives in positive, people-centric environments and have the ability to translate architectural goals into actionable solutions while maintaining high levels of internal IT security and performance.

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy is a Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect in Qlik's Global Enablement, Architecture and Research (GEAR) team. Leigh has been with Qlik for more than 8 years. Working in roles both in Professional Services and pre-sales at Qlik, Leigh is focused on helping Qlik's customers successfully transition their Qlik environments to Qlik Cloud. Leigh is based in Sydney, Australia.

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo is a Master Principal Enterprise Architect with a passion for building relationships and delivering cloud solutions for global organisations. He moved across the leading software vendors in the last 20+ years playing the role of expert in technologies such as EAI, ETL, CDC, MDM, Search Engines, Advance Analytics, Active Intelligence. He thrives in positive, people-centric environments and have the ability to translate architectural goals into actionable solutions while maintaining high levels of internal IT security and performance.

Daniel Pilla

Job Title: Master Principal Analytics Platform Architect

Company: Qlik

Daniel is a Master Principal Analytics Platform Architect at Qlik and has been part of the PreSales organization for the last 7 years. He supports strategic accounts across the Americas, and primarily focuses on architecture, authentication, authorization, integration, and APIs.

Tonya Wolford

Company: School District of Philadelphia

Keren Zuniga McDowell

Job Title: Executive Director, District Performance

Company: School District of Philadelphia

Keren Zuniga McDowell, PhD, is the Executive Director of District Performance. In this role, Keren oversees the staff team and projects in the District Performance Office. The team’s work includes the Qlik Benchmarking, Analytics, and Management (QlikBAM) dashboards, School Profiles (Qlik QAP), data governance, the School Progress Report on Education and Equity (SPREE), Open Data, and data requests. The District Performance Office is in the Evaluation, Research, and Accountability (ERA) Division, which leads the District’s use of data and evidence to improve outcomes for students. This is achieved through the annual SPREE; QlikBAM; ongoing program evaluations and research; data quality and governance; the comprehensive school planning process; and professional development and technical assistance offered to District leadership, Assistant Superintendents, and Principals. Dr. Zuniga McDowell has over twenty years of experience in evaluation, data management, college access/success, and higher education and has committed her career to increasing educational opportunities for at-risk and underrepresented students. Prior to joining the District, Keren served as the Director for College Success with the Denver Scholarship Foundation (DSF) where she managed DSF’s college success services, scholarships, and research and evaluation divisions. Prior to her time at DSF, Keren served as the Director of the Center for Academic Access and Opportunity at Suffolk University in Boston, MA, where she oversaw the institution’s TRIO college access programs. Keren has also served as the Director of Research and Evaluation for two national non-profits, TERI (The Education Resources Institute) and Citizen Schools. In these roles she developed and led various multi-program, multi-site, large-scale program evaluations and data strategy initiatives.

Mike Ellis

Job Title: Director, Customer Success

Company: GINQO

Robin Sarkar is Senior Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics at IronRidge, where he develops the long-term business intelligence strategy and vision for the company and oversees the development and implementation of Data Analytics and Data Science projects. Since joining the company in 2014, Robin has lead the charge on various company-wide initiatives, included the overhaul of the entire S&OP process, developing tools that support customer advocacy and partnerships. Robin holds an MBA degree from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai. In his spare time Robin enjoys sports, amateur photography and spending time with his growing family.

Manon Lavergne

Job Title: Program Manager, Operational Support Services

Company: Ottawa Paramedic Service

Manon is a Program Manager with the Ottawa Paramedic Service located in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario. The Ottawa Paramedic Service is the sole municipal provider of paramedic services covering 2,778 km2 (1,072 sq. mi) with a population of just under 1,000,000. Ottawa’s Paramedics respond to over 140,000 medical emergencies annually. Manon is responsible for the Operational Support Services division, overseeing the Business Intelligence in Public Safety program, Community Paramedicine, Regulatory Compliance and Infection Control, Research, Emergency Medical Records, Professional Standards and quality assurance as well as the scheduling and staffing. Over the last 25 years, Manon helped evaluate, develop and implement several initiatives related to system performance. Most recently the operationalization of the Patient Priority System dashboard using real-time data has been a significant collaborative project aiming to reduce the impact on the pre-hospital system particularly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul Barth

Job Title: Global Head of Data Literacy

Company: Qlik

Dr. Paul Barth is the Global Head of Data Literacy for Qlik. Dr. Barth joined Qlik as CEO of Podium Data, which was acquired by Qlik in 2018 to create a next generation integrated data and analytics platform. He has spent decades developing advanced data and analytics solutions for Fortune 100 companies, and is a recognized thought-leader on business-driven data strategies and best practices. Prior to founding Podium Data, Paul co-founded NewVantage Partners, a boutique consultancy advising C-level executives at leading banking, investment, and insurance firms. Through his leadership roles at Schlumberger, Thinking Machines, Epsilon, Tessera, and iXL, Dr. Barth led the discovery and development of parallel processing and AI technologies to dramatically accelerate and simplify data management and analytics. Dr. Barth holds a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from Yale University, and PhD in Parallel Computing from MIT.

Aart Labee

Job Title: Global Head of D&A

Company: Syngenta

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

Rocco leads Technical Product Marketing and go-to-market strategies for the technical and developer-centric components of Qlik’s Data Analytics product portfolio. Prior to Qlik, Rocco lead implementation teams and deployed Qlik across several industries and use cases such as Energy and smart meter networks, Pharmaceutical commercial operations, Retail supply-chain digitalization, and more. Rocco enjoys helping customers evolve and transform through the combination of technology and analytics prowess.

Paul Peterson

Job Title: Sr Director Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy & Compliance - Qlik Cloud Government

Company: Qlik

Paul Peterson is Sr. Director of Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform . Paul has been with Qlik for over three years and has Product Management responsibility for Security, Compliance, Privacy and Special Markets. Paul is also Product Manager for Qlik's U.S. Public sector SaaS offering, Qlik Cloud Government. Paul has over 20 years in Product Management spanning many disciplines and markets ranging from Analytics, to Performance & Capacity Management, Identity Management and Cloud Management.

Ian Crosland

Job Title: Vice President Product Management - Analytics

Company: Qlik

Ian Crosland, Vice President Product Management - Analytics. Ian has over 20 years experience in the analytics space. In his role as Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Ian is responsible for leading a team of product managers that help drive the vision, product strategy and roadmap for the Qlik analytics capabilities. Prior to joining Qlik, he was responsible for both services and pre sales teams in a consultancy business delivering projects using analytics and data management software from SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos and Microsoft.

Kathleen Hickey

Company: Qlik

Kathy Hickey is a professional software Product Executive with more than 20 years of experience managing complex software product portfolios. She currently leads the Product Management team at Qlik responsible for managing Qlik’s software portfolio. She works closely with customers helping them achieve their business goals leveraging Qlik solutions to enable an Automated Data Analytics Pipeline resulting in a state of Active Intelligence. Prior to Qlik Kathy worked at CA Technologies managing portfolios across Security (Identity and Access Management), Infrastructure Management, and Virtualization and Automation.

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

As Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, Hélène is responsible for Qlik’s cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategies, including the company’s value proposition, its product vision, innovation and direction, and its customer success approach. She has been with Qlik for 7 years and is based in Philadelphia, PA.

Bob Vecchione

Job Title: VP Product Management

Company: Qlik

Bob is a member of the Global Product Group responsible for managing Qlik’s Data Integration platform of products. Previously, he was one of the co-founders of Podium Data which was acquired by Qlik in 2018. Bob has been working on the design and delivery of complex large-scale data solutions for over 20 years. Since working at parallel computing pioneer Thinking Machines, Bob has been leveraging leading-edge technologies to solve challenging business problems for the world’s leading financial, insurance, pharmaceutical and retail firms.

Patric Nordström

Job Title: Product Manager, Qlik Sense Visualizations and GeoAnalytics

Company: Qlik

Patric Nordström was the CEO and co-founder of Idevio, the mapping company Qlik acquired in 2016. After the merger Patric became the product manager for Qlik GeoAnalytics and Qlik Sense visualizations. Idevio was founded in 2003 and provided state of the art geographic software products for decision support and resource planning to clients such as Volvo, Schenker and the Swedish Armed Forces. Patric has more than twenty years of experience of project management and geographic software production. He has two Master Degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University and lives on the west coast of Sweden with his wife and two children.

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

Rocco leads Technical Product Marketing and go-to-market strategies for the technical and developer-centric components of Qlik’s Data Analytics product portfolio. Prior to Qlik, Rocco lead implementation teams and deployed Qlik across several industries and use cases such as Energy and smart meter networks, Pharmaceutical commercial operations, Retail supply-chain digitalization, and more. Rocco enjoys helping customers evolve and transform through the combination of technology and analytics prowess.

Nicolas Michel

Company: Siemens

Key Achievements: 

- Developed and implemented a Business Intelligence (BI) strategy for SI Procurement (EUR 6.5 bln. purchasing volume) from scratch in 2017 with focus of user friendliness and brand constancy. Continuous growth of users.

- Defined a Qlik Sense framework as a guideline for the development of applications

- Built a BI Ambassadors' team, resulting in improved internal cooperation

- Lead two developers in Portugal to meet the increasing BI demand

- Automated around 80% of my monthly reporting by using the BI platform Professional Career in Siemens

- Data Mart Product Manager and Data Mart Business Analyst- Procurement Business Unit Controller

- Procurement Controller [80%] & Part-Time Student

Patric Nordström

Job Title: Product Manager, Qlik Sense Visualizations and GeoAnalytics

Company: Qlik

Patric Nordström was the CEO and co-founder of Idevio, the mapping company Qlik acquired in 2016. After the merger Patric became the product manager for Qlik GeoAnalytics and Qlik Sense visualizations. Idevio was founded in 2003 and provided state of the art geographic software products for decision support and resource planning to clients such as Volvo, Schenker and the Swedish Armed Forces. Patric has more than twenty years of experience of project management and geographic software production. He has two Master Degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University and lives on the west coast of Sweden with his wife and two children.

Nicole Tamms

Job Title: Senior Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

Nicole Tamms is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager within the global products organization at Qlik. Drawing upon more than 20 years of software industry experience, Nicole is focused on go-to-market strategy, enablement and content creation supporting customer retention and visualization capabilities. She has been with Qlik close to four years, after spending much of her career with Quest Software, where she drove product marketing for their flagship database and data prep tools the previous 12 years. Nicole holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from Long Beach State University. She is a Southern California native, currently living in Long Beach, CA with her husband, two children, pit bull mix Bowen, bearded dragon Spike, and guinea pig Freedom.