Biographies Supplement of the EDW Panel

Jim is a 26-year veteran of the IT industry with experience designing and building large database systems at IBM, San Diego Gas and Electric, and TRW Information Services. He has been a product unit manager in the Windows Enterprise Management Division, and GM of architecture, regional development and database operations within Microsoft IT. He has led the development of several critical applications, and is now responsible for leading the delivery of key data warehouse and business intelligence systems. He has presented information about implementations of Microsoft SQL Server at several conferences and numerous enterprise customers on how Microsoft has developed sales and marketing systems.

Dinesh manages Microsoft Dynamics Practice. He has over 15 years of experience in IT around designing and building business applications like ERP, CRM, and HIS and deploying these applications working with clients across APAC, Europe and US. He has worked with clients in various verticals like manufacturing, e-commerce, utilities, hi-tech, healthcare, banking and financial services. At Infosys, he is responsible for creating micro-vertical business solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics platform for clients in specific verticals leveraging the base capabilities of the COTS package by extending functionality around industry specific processes, workflow, BI and integration.

Balaji is an experienced thought-leader and a certified management consultant. He specializes in bringing a unique blend of strategy, process, technology and change management to drive tangible value to enterprises in their business transformation efforts. He is passionate about extending Information Technology to enable better decision-making. In his recent role, as a BI Competency leader, he is working across breath of BI in further BI as a differentiator for Mahindra Satyam.

Venkat manages the BI practice with responsibilities of Revenue, profitable growth, new customers and initiatives and delivering large programs. He Advocates the use of Business Intelligence solutions to clients enabling them to gain competitive advantage and increase their speed and accuracy of decision making. he has extensive experience across enterprise global solutions for clients in the Retail, Manufacturing, Telecom, Logistics and Technology industries. His experience spans working with clients in different regions and geographies including North America, Europe, Australia and Asia

Sudheer is a quintessential Database engineer. His expertise is in design, administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, High Availability and disaster recovery. He has authored two books on Oracle9i with Oracle press. He is an Adjunct faculty at Columbia University teaching advanced Oracle topics (Oracle tuning, Oracle High Availability, Advanced Oracle Administration). He has consulted for many fortune 500 companies in Media, Telecommunication, pharmaceutical, Insurance and dot com industries.

Smit is Head of Informatics for Novartis Hyderabad. Smit also co-leads the Novartis Pharma IT Global BI council . Smit has over ten years of experience in the IT Industry. At Novartis, Smit helped establish the Novartis IT group in India as a key shared services site providing leadership in the space of BI & DW, Software quality & process Improvement, Enterprise Web services, Clinical systems, Document management and collaboration etc. The IT group at Novartis Hyderabad contributes extensively to Global strategic programs in Novartis.