DATA TO DOLLARS - Key Persons
Charmaine Singh is a premier facilitator of all things Canadian with a focus on the travel industry. Vibrant, energetic and dynamic, Charmaine's gift is her superior drive to deliver the exceptional. An expert branding tourism, agencies, and hospitality organizations, with an extensive track record in sales and destination management, she is the President & CEO of Reach Global Marketing Ltd.
Des Martin brings a wealth of experience with him as a business coach and deep expertise in the Retail Industry, Analytics & Business Intelligence. Des is the Managing Director of the Actionable Intelligence Group and his prior roles comprise being the CIO for Harrods Department Stores in the UK and sales, consulting, strategic planning, and marketing roles for Teradata, NCR & IBM.
Gerd Birgit Hay has spent a lifetime focused on customer management. Her background stretches from Norwegian Entrepreneur, Analytics Consulting Leader and Country Manager. No-nonsense in her ability to understand and deliver from start-up to scaled global enterprise, she is empathetic to the core. Gerd is driven by a keen sense of what's going underneath the deep running ‘still waters'. An owner of process, data and award-winning customer management solutions, Gerd is second to none.
Having lived and worked in nine countries, Marc Teerlink is as vast and broad as his diverse origins. Truly dedicated to his passions, he melds big thinking with innovation. Marc is a recognized business and thought leader, with an enviable track record as a serial entrepreneur within big business. He is a driven coach, demanding individuals to grow far beyond their project or startup. Marc is Global Vice President SAP Leonardo, New Markets & AI at SAP. Prior to joining SAP, Marc was IBM Watson's Chief Business Strategist.were he and his team took Watson from winning Jeopardy! as an endearing quiz show-winning machine into a serious business enabling technology and AI platform.
Olav Laudy is passionate about analytics-based data monetization and the ethical use of data science results. We don't know any thought leader more competent than Olav who can articulate complex data science concepts in layman's terms and relate these back to business impact. Following a stellar career with SPSS, Olav was the Chief Data Scientist for IBM Analytics for the Asia-Pacific region and recently became the Chief Data Scientist at Causality Link, a fast growing startup that combine their customers' expert's knowledge with automatic reading of publications as well as extraction of complementary information from quantitative models.