TDWI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Education Development
Chris Adamson (CBIP) is a BI and analytics consultant, author, and TDWI's director of education. Chris works with clients worldwide to establish BI and analytics programs, define and prioritize projects, and develop information architectures. With over 30 years of data management experience in IT, consulting, and high-tech marketing, Chris leads TDWI's education programs and curriculum development. A recognized expert in the field, his many publications include the top-selling books Star Schema: The Complete Reference and Data Warehouse Design Solutions.
David Langer is a hands-on consultant, trainer, and speaker with a mission to make data analysis skills as commonplace as Excel skills. Dave on Data was founded to achieve this mission by crafting and delivering the best analytics training for all professionals regardless of role.
Dave has held analytics leadership roles at Schedulicity, Data Science Dojo, and Microsoft. He has trained hundreds of BI and analytics professionals in the fundamentals of machine learning and analytics. Dave has been recognized for his effective style of teaching analytics, and his YouTube tutorials have more than 2,000,000 combined views.
Dave holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Washington.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director of TDWI Research for Business
- Senior Director of TDWI Research for Business Intelligence
David Stodder is senior director of TDWI Research for business intelligence. He focuses on providing research-based insights and best practices for organizations implementing BI, analytics, data discovery, data visualization, performance management, and related technologies and methods and has been a thought leader in the field for over two decades. Previously, he headed up his own independent firm and served as vice president and research director with Ventana Research. He was the founding chief editor of Intelligent Enterprise where he also served as editorial director for nine years. You can reach him by email (dstodder@tdwi.org), on Twitter (twitter.com/dbstodder), and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/davidstodder).
Deanne Larson, Ph.D., is an active data science practitioner and academic. Her research has focused on enterprise data strategy, agile analytics, and data science best practices. She holds Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP), and Six Sigma certifications. Deanne attended AT&T Executive Training at the Harvard Business School focusing on IT leadership, Stanford University focusing on data science, and New York University focusing on business analytics. She has presented at multiple conferences including TDWI, TDWI Europe, PMI, and other academic conferences. She is a faculty member at Purdue Global, has consulted for several Fortune 500 companies, and has authored multiple research articles on data science methodology and best practices.
Job Titles:
- Director, Cloud Data Warehousing & Analytics
- Solution Architect
Dr. Norbert Kremer is a cloud solution architect with extensive hands-on experience designing and building large-scale data warehouse and analytic solutions. Dr. Kremer designs cloud solutions that are secure, reliable and efficient at scale. Particular attention is paid to projecting the cost of proposed solutions during the design phase, thereby ensuring high business value. He is a FinOps Certified Practitioner and FinOps Foundation Community member.
Job Titles:
- Vice President and Senior Director of TDWI Research
- Vice President and Senior Director of TDWI Research for Advanced Analytics
Fern Halper, Ph.D., is vice president and senior director of TDWI Research for advanced analytics. She is well known in the analytics community, having been published hundreds of times on data mining and information technology over the past 20 years. Halper is also co-author of several Dummies books on cloud computing and big data. She focuses on advanced analytics, including predictive analytics, text and social media analysis, machine-learning, AI, cognitive computing and big data analytics approaches. She has been a partner at industry analyst firm Hurwitz & Associates and a lead data analyst for Bell Labs. Her Ph.D. is from Texas A&M University. You can reach her by email (fhalper@tdwi.org), on Twitter (twitter.com/fhalper), and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/fbhalper).
Job Titles:
- Senior Director of Research for Data Management
James Kobielus is senior director of Research for data management at TDWI. He is a veteran industry analyst, consultant, author, speaker, and blogger in analytics and data management. At TDWI he focuses on data management, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. Previously, Kobielus held positions at Futurum Research, SiliconANGLEWikibon, Forrester Research, Current Analysis and the Burton Group. He has also served as Senior Program Director, Product Marketing for Big Data Analytics for IBM, where he was both a subject matter expert and a strategist on thought leadership and content marketing programs targeted at the data science community. You can reach him by email (jkobielus@tdwi.org), on Twitter (twitter.com/jameskobielus), and on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameskobielus/).
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal Data Scientist
- Professional Consultant
Keith McCormick is a highly accomplished professional consultant, mentor, and trainer, having served as keynote and moderator at international conferences focused on analytics practitioners and leadership alike.
Keith has built predictive analytics models since the 1990s utilizing popular industry advanced analytics solutions such as IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM SPSS Modeler, KNIME, and other popular open-source machine learning tools. He's also authored seven books on the effective use of predictive analytics software and techniques.
He has guided organizations to establish highly effective analytical practices across industries, including the public sector, media, marketing, healthcare, retail, finance, manufacturing, and higher education.
Keith serves as data science principal on the Data Science and AI team at Further, a business services and consulting firm.
Job Titles:
- VP Business Development and Sales, East Coast
Krish Krishnan is an expert recognized worldwide in the strategy, architecture, and implementation of high-performance big data analytics, data warehousing, analytics, and business intelligence solutions. He is a visionary data warehousing thought leader, ranked as one of the top 20 data warehouse consultants in the world, and a recognized authority on unstructured data, social analytics and big data, text mining, and text analytics. An innovator and solution expert, he is known for his work in high-performance data warehouse architectures and is an acknowledged expert in performance tuning of complex database and data warehouse platforms.
Krishnan writes and speaks extensively for industry-leading conferences, user groups, and trade publications. He has authored three books, four e-books, and more than 395 whitepapers, articles, viewpoints, and case studies in big data, analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, and data warehouse appliances and architectures. He is currently working on models and platforms concerning block chain and the opioid crisis.
Mark Peco (CBIP) is an experienced consultant, educator, manager and analyst. With graduate and undergraduate degrees in engineering from the University of Waterloo, he has led numerous consulting engagements helping clients adapt to fundamental shifts in their business models.
Job Titles:
- Analytics Consultant and Educator
Rich Fox is a 20-year veteran in the analytics industry and is an experienced thought leader, bringing strong business expertise to the strategy, design, and use of analytics, most notably in linking key decisions to high-value outcomes. He has been at the forefront of innovative, yet pragmatic application of data and analytics to solve business problems and was one of the pioneers in developing cascaded KPI frameworks to better manage strategy to execution performance.
Rich is an independent consultant, and also teaches analytics in a master's program at San Diego State University where he recently co-designed the new Innovation course. He has served as VP of analytics at Qdoba and chief analytics officer at Bike Bandit. He is also a CPA, spent six years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and has been a CFO.
Rich is the creator of the AICPA's data-driven leader certificate program which focuses on how a company can execute on their data-driven strategy by implementing a transformational analytics strategy.
Job Titles:
- Analytics Consultant and Educator
Richard Hines is an accomplished data and AI leader with 20+ years of global experience across a number of industries. He specializes in working with teams to establish or re-energize analytics programs and has held senior leadership roles within industry and consulting organizations. Richard is also active in the academic community where he has held data and AI advisory board roles with MIT and McGill University, and has led curriculum development and lectured across Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Principal Consultant
- Industry Expert
Richard Winter is an industry expert in analytics data management at scale. Mr. Winter advises decision makers on the data strategy and the data architecture of the modern data warehouse and the data lake. He has been retained to make architecture and platform recommendations or perform engineering tests for over 50 leading enterprises, government agencies, and technology vendors. He is a recognized thought leader and an expert in platform evaluation and benchmarking, having published more than 100 technical reports and articles.
Job Titles:
- VP Business Development and Sales, West Coast
Job Titles:
- Director of Onsite Education