 The Hub Designs MDM Think Tank
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| | | |  | Dan Power is the founder and President of Hub Solution Designs, Inc., a global management and technology consulting firm specializing in Master Data Management (MDM) and data governance. His role at Hub Designs is a combination of best practice expert, industry analyst, client advisor, and thought leader. He’s responsible for client strategy and delivery in the areas of master data management, data governance, content marketing and social media. Dan advises clients' senior management teams on the strategic value of their technology investments, and is the author of more than 25 articles and white papers on MDM and data governance. Dan is a featured speaker at industry conferences, webinars and vendor events. He writes for Information Management magazine, The Data Warehousing Institute, and the Hub Designs Blog, a widely read blog on MDM and data governance. | | | | | | Hub Designs MDM Think Tank Members
| | | |  | Julie Hunt is the founder of Julie Hunt Consulting, a software solutions strategy and market intelligence practice. Julie is an accomplished software industry analyst, providing strategic market and competitive insights for vendors and buyers. Julie has the unique perspective of a software industry "hybrid" -- extensive experience in the technology, business, and customer/people-oriented aspects of creating, marketing and selling software. She has worked in the B2B software industry on the vendor side for more than 20 years in roles from the very technical (developer, SE, solutions consultant) to customer-focused work in strategies for products/solutions, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market initiatives. Her core software technology domains are data integration, data quality, analytics, OSS, SaaS, cloud, WCM/WEM, enterprise portal, social media/marketing, collaboration, and ECM. | | | | 
| James Parnitzke is a hands-on technology executive, trusted partner, advisor, software publisher, and widely recognized database management and enterprise architecture thought leader. Over his career he has served in executive, technical, publisher (commercial software), and practice management roles across a wide range of industries. Now a sought after technology management advisor and hands-on practitioner, his customers include many of the Fortune 500 as well as emerging businesses where he is known for taking complex challenges and solving them across all levels of the customer’s organization, delivering distinctive value and lasting relationships. | | | |  | Rob DuMoulin is the founder and President of Knowledge Based Solutions Inc., a consulting organization that specializes in information management evaluations and solutions. Rob provides thought leadership, architectural design, and hands-on implementation expertise in Data Governance, Database Administration, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Data Movement, Enterprise Reporting, Enterprise Data Architecture, and data modeling. Rob works in tandem with business and IT leaders to document current-state information architecture, design end-state goals, then define the gaps and roadmap that meets specific business and cost-benefit goals.
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| William McKnight functions as Strategist, Lead Enterprise Information Architect, and Program Manager for complex, high-volume full life-cycle implementations worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence. Many of his clients have gone public with their success story. William is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge, has authored hundreds of articles and white papers and given hundreds of international keynotes and public seminars. His team’s implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won Best Practices awards. William is a former IT VP of a Fortune company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA. William is author of the book “90 Days to Success in Consulting.” | | | |  | Gates Ouimette is a Partner, Business Development, in the insurance vertical at CGI Group, Inc. Working with CGI's largest insurance customers, Gates' focus is on discovering, defining and providing technology solutions for a business' operational requirements and strategic direction. Beginning with a "business architecture" viewpoint, Gates has experience in working with customers from both an infrastructure and an application perspective, advising clients on the impact of emerging technologies. In addition to CGI Group, Gates has started, grown and managed vertical practices for technology consulting firms. Gates corporate experience includes Digital Equipment, Dell, Verizon Business and three technology startups, all of whom were acquired (one by CSC, one by BISYS). He has had numerous published articles and “business and technology” podcasts. Gates also founded a B2B eCommerce seminar series, defining, orchestrating and then moderating panels on relevant business and technology topics.
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