Lori Smith, Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance Director, Freddie Mac

Lori Smith is an Enterprise Data Strategy & Governance Director in the Single-Family Data Governance & Management organization. Ms. Smith has responsibility for master data management capabilities within the Single-Family Division. She is accountable for solution creation, design and implementation of data assets in alignment with future state architecture for business processes.

Ms. Smith joined Freddie Mac in 2003 and has held leadership roles within the Model Operations and Finance organizations. Ms. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Accounting from the University of Kansas School of Business. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Prior to joining Freddie Mac, Ms. Smith was employed by an international telecommunications company, where she was a member of the Finance organization.

Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation’s residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Today Freddie Mac is making home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. For more information please visit www.FreddieMac.com and Twitter @FreddieMac.)

Pete Stormer, Director of Data Management, AmerisourceBergen

Pete Stormer has over 20 years’ experience in master data management. In his role at AmerisourceBergen, he is responsible for defining the enterprise strategy and providing guidance to the individual business units for data management.

The scope of Pete’s responsibilities is ‘all things data.’ Central in the strategy is master data management for product, business partner and patient. In support of the master data is data quality management. Tying all the master data together is a data governance program. Beyond the master data, reference data is included in the data management processes. As all of these processes mature and become part of the culture, these same deals will be applied to transactional data in data warehouses and stores.

Pete has BS in Biochemistry from Penn State University and an MS in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs from Temple School of Pharmacy. Prior to AmerisourceBergen, Peter spent 25 years with Rohm and Haas, a specialty chemical manufacturer in positions ranging from research chemist to import/export compliance lead to master data specialist.

Joe Blank, Global Director, Information Management, Business Intelligence & Analytics, S&P Global

Joe is responsible for providing leadership and developing strategies to strengthen the S&P Global Corporate IM&A environment. This includes building of advanced analytics platforms, improving the data quality and standardization of data, creating self-service visualizations, creating a Corporate Data Warehouse that enhances the HR , Sales, and Financial Management Reporting environments. Joe creates a collaborative business intelligence environment and drives cross-functional data integration and analytics for S&P Global.

Pamela Larsen, Manager, Enterprise Master Data Applications, American Family Insurance

Pamela Larsen has more than 30 years of professional IT experience in leadership and data architecture roles for mission critical applications. Her competencies include MDM, Data Architecture, Data Integration, Customer Mastering and Business Intelligence.

In her current role, she is responsible for providing leadership to our MDM solutions and driving to create a roadmap for MDM domain evaluation. Her team has implemented MDM for the Customer domain that masters and integrates the customer, prospect and lead data across the enterprise; and is in development for MDM for Reference Data domain.

Pamela has a BS in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University. She was a co-lead for the Wisconsin Informatica User Group from 2006-2014.

Hayne Shumate, SVP, Internet Business, Mouser Electronics

As Senior Vice President of Internet Business at Mouser Electronics, Inc., Hayne Shumate leads a team that has helped propel Mouser's growth by constantly improving the user experience and the capabilities of the e-commerce business. Joining Mouser in 2008, Shumate consolidated teams from Information Systems and Marketing into a new Internet Business Department capable of supporting and enhancing Mouser's rapid international growth as the company diversified its sales beyond the catalog. Traffic and transactions have increased 500 percent since he joined Mouser. Shumate's department has launched the electronic component industry's most capable Mobile Website (in 16 languages and 27 currencies) and Bill of Materials (BOM) processing tool. He has led systems and process improvements, enabling Mouser's web properties to support more than 6.5 million customer visits per month. He started his career teaching inner-city students with Teach for America before moving into e-commerce and electronic component distribution in 1994. He holds an MBA in Management of Information Systems.

Pradeep Mohapatra, Head of Data Management, Chubb Insurance

Bio coming soon.

Anil Chakravarthy, Chief Executive Officer, Informatica

Anil Chakravarthy is the chief executive officer of Informatica. Previously, Anil was the executive vice president and chief product officer responsible for product development, product management and product marketing.

Prior to Informatica, for nearly a decade, Chakravarthy held leadership roles at Symantec Corporation. Most recently Chakravarthy was the executive vice president of Information Security at Symantec, responsible for overseeing engineering, product management and operations for an extensive product portfolio including Data Loss Prevention, E-Mail and Web Security (on-premise and cloud), Managed Services, Trust Services and Authentication. Previously at Symantec, Chakravarthy led multiple product groups including Endpoint Protection, Mobile Security and Management, Encryption, Storage and High-Availability and India Product Operations as well as Enterprise Global Consulting.

Prior to Symantec, Chakravarthy led product management for enterprise security services at VeriSign. Chakravarthy began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he rose to become the co-leader of the E-Business Practice in the Business Technology Office.

Chakravarthy received a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India. Additionally, Chakravarthy received his Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Suresh Menon, SVP and GM, Information Quality Solutions, Informatica

Suresh Menon is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Information Quality Solutions (IQS) business unit at Informatica. In this role, Suresh is responsible for Product Management and Engineering for MDM, MDM - Product 360, Customer 360 for Salesforce, MDM Solutions, Data Quality and Data as a Service. He offers over 20 years of experience spanning product management and business development, as well as vast domain expertise across various industries.

Ron Matusof, Vice President, MDM Customer Success, Informatica

Ron Matusof is Vice President of MDM Customer Success and Advanced Customer Engineering at Informatica. Ron joined Informatica as part of Informatica’s acquisition of Siperian and in total has more than ten years of experience in all aspects of Master Data Management. Over his 30 year career, Ron has held senior technical leadership positions with BroadVision, Interactive Network, and Link Flight Simulation. He holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and has published over 20 technical papers covering a variety of topics.

Manouj Tahiliani, Senior Director, Product Management, Informatica

Manouj Tahiliani is responsible for Informatica’s Cloud MDM and Industry Solutions Product Management. He is highly experienced professional and thought leader with 20+years of experience spanning Oracle, GE Capital and Eaton Corp. He is also an advisor to start-ups in the Big Data and Knowledge Analytics space. Prior to Informatica, he led the Product Management and Strategy for Oracle’s MDM applications. He brings vast domain expertise that spans Industry solutions like Customer Experience (CX) and technologies like Data Integration, BI and Big Data both from a Cloud as well as On-Prem standpoint. Manouj has multiple Patents in the Data Management space and holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s in business administration. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma Expert and Scrum Product Owner.

Peter Ku, Sr. Director Industry Solutions Consulting – Financial Services, Informatica

Peter Ku is responsible for Informatica's Global Financial Services industry solutions consulting practice. He is an expert in helping financial services organizations leverage data and related data management solutions to achieve their top business imperatives from regulatory compliance to improving customer experience. Mr. Ku spent 6 years in the credit card industry with Providian Bancorp and Visa International and 5 years in the residential mortgage technology industry with Dorado and Ellie Mae and over 15 years working with data integration, data quality, data mining, master data management, and data governance software industry. He is a regular presenter at industry events including FIMA, IDC Financial Congress, ACORD, and other industry events across the globe and author of many articles related to Big Data, regulatory compliance, credit risk management, operational risk, and driving customer insight and growth across the enterprise. He holds an MBA in Corporate Finance from the University of San Francisco and Bachelors of Science in Marketing from Hawaii Pacific University.

Chris Phillips, Director, Product Management, Informatica

Chris has a detailed understanding of data quality challenges facing businesses today and how to best address them. In his product management role he works with customers to identify and design best of breed data quality solutions. Working as a Senior Consultant with Informatica Professional Services, has given Chris hands-on experience in implementing data quality solutions tailored to specific customer needs. Chris joined Informatica when the company extended its offerings to include next generation data quality solutions with the acquisition of Similarity Systems. Chris has held a variety of roles in systems consultancy and implementation with leading organizations such as Quantum Corp and specialist solution providers like UKprocure.

Ian Stahl, Director of Product Management, Informatica

Ian Stahl is Director of Product Management. In this capacity, Ian defines Master Data Management product strategy and roadmap for data governance applications, as well as development frameworks for MDM-aware applications. Ian joined Informatica from IBM, and previously Initiate Systems, with more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software, and 9 years in Product Management and Product Marketing in Master Data Management.

Thomas Brence, Director, Product Marketing, Informatica

Thomas Brence is the Director of Product Marketing for Informatica’s Data as a Service offerings. Located in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, he has spent his entire career working for technology companies in various product marketing roles. Thomas holds both a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and an MBA from Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania.

Prash Chandramohan, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Informatica

Prash Chandramohan is customer-focused product marketer at Informatica responsible for Informatica MDM and Big Data Relationship Management. Prash brings a breadth of knowledge due to his passion for the industry and experience working with several large MDM implementations around the globe. Recognized as an industry thought leader in Master Data Management, Data Quality, and Data Governance, he shares best practices, expertise, and guidance on his award-winning blog http://www.mdmgeek.com/. As a top Big Data social media influencer, he engages passionately with the Twitter community as @MDMGeek.

Monica Mullen, Solutions Marketing Manager, Informatica

Monica Mullen is responsible for Informatica's solutions for customer centricity and customer data strategies. She believes that trusted, contextual data is the missing leg of the people/process/technology stool. She’s worked with companies across industries to help them capture the immense strategic value of their data so they can conquer complexity and capitalize on changing customer conditions. These companies transform themselves by arming front-line staff, back office employees, and executives with the insights they need to confidently move toward the best outcome, regardless of the challenge. Connect with Monica on LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/in/mmullen1, or follow her on Twitter at @monica1mullen.