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A result-oriented and involved leader, Jesper believes as much in people as he does in numbers. His philosophy is that a good leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. A philosophy he picked up years ago when he was a captain in the Danish army reserve.

Jesper has 20+ years of experience working with finance and IT for technology and manufacturing companies such as EG, Terma Elektronik and PwC.

Brad Crosby joined Stibo Systems last year as the President of North America with over 25 years of experience managing data management software companies and has a deep expertise in the MDM world. With an impressive track record of achieving a 20+ percent per year growth record, he has helped drive growth, expand partner programs, improve customer satisfaction and increase employee engagement. At Stibo Systems, he intends to bring that same energy and ambition to help us and our customers reach their next level of success.

With his hands-on approach and belief in strong team dynamics and transparency, as president EMEA/APAC Christian Oertzen has established his reputation through execution on set goals, leading by example and his capability to foster change.
 
At Stibo Systems, he is leveraging his 25+ years of experience from global companies such as Salesforce, Avaya and Dell EMC to further drive business value for Stibo Systems’ customers and partners across Europe.

As Chief Marketing Officer Jens Olivarius is responsible for Stibo Systems’ global marketing and communication. He is passionate about the integration of marketing and sales in order to support the company’s growth ambitions. Jens has more than 25 years of experience in leading marketing and sales positions in the IT industry. Prior to joining Stibo Systems he was CMO of SimCorp where he re-positioned the company, updated its brand, and increased its digital presence. Before joining SimCorp, Jens spent 18 years with SAS Institute in different senior sales, business development and marketing roles, in which he has gained a deep understanding of the importance of quality data.

From Ugandan refugee to successful entrepreneur, CEO, and renowned human rights activist, Derreck’s journey inspires audiences to dream big. He shares his visionary ideas for harnessing the power of observation and creative problem solving, applicable to any organisation or community. Derreck’s passion for helping others and commitment to innovative thinking led him to the role of CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Derreck is the founder of the Global Soap Project: a humanitarian aid organisation that collects discarded and unused soap from thousands of hotels worldwide, reprocesses it, then distributes it to in-need populations around the world.

Noel covers big data, data warehouses, data fabric, data integration, data virtualization, Hadoop, Spark, in-memory, translytical, NoSQL, cloud, ETL, big data integration, data management, data tools, and data security for enterprise architecture professionals. His current focus is on new and emerging markets, modern data architectures, cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

With more than 20 years of experience in the data and supply chain business across a variety of industries, he has developed a passion for enabling digital business. Doug is a technology evangelist focusing on advancements that can be applied to both ecommerce and customer centricity in the master data management industry.

As Chief Innovation Officer for Stibo Systems, Ian is responsible for ensuring that we can identify the technologies, strategies and opportunities that can help our customers achieve their business outcomes.
With more than 25 years of experience in the Data Management space in roles such as Consultancy, Project Implementation, Pre Sales and User Experience, Ian brings a unique insight into our Innovation organisation.

Nils Pedersen is the Vice President of Product Strategy for Stibo Systems. With over 20+ years of experience working with data management with some of the world’s largest global companies. Nils has been instrumental in driving the current enterprise product portfolio as well as building industry specific solutions. He runs our Customer Advisory Board and his group is responsible for Product Strategy and Product Roadmaps.

Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer, has helped countless companies by enlightening business executives to the strategic value of master data and proper data management. He focuses on business alignment and the “strategic WHY” rather than system implementation and the “technical HOW.” At Meta Consulting he helps Enterprises tell their data story.

Abhishek joined General Mills in 2008 and currently leads the enterprise Product Information Capabilities team: Product Information Management (PIM) and Go-to-Market (RTL). Abhishek recently led the implementation of a new PIM system for General Mills Retail division and is now scaling this capability to FoodService segment.

He is responsible to provide solutions to simplify product launch process to reduce time to market. He is also responsible for process improvement, technology solutions and external partnerships to enhance and improve our product content to meet our customers and consumer’s needs.

Prior to his current role Abhishek held a variety of IT, Data and BI roles supporting an array of General Mills business across the world.

Bridgid Coleman is Director of Master Data at PrimeSource Building Products. In her current role, Bridgid is leading her team to define and execute a successful master data practice. Prior to master data, she has spent the past 10 years at PrimeSource in various roles, including with the marketing team and leading a sales support team for key accounts. Because of this, she understands the importance of accurate, consistent data, and how that information is needed to make not only the company but its customers a success.

Carolyn Bernreiter joined Sobeys 2 and half years ago, at the beginning of their digital transformation, and started by building a digital IT team from the ground up. Going from a team of only a few people to now over 20. Carolyn’s Ecomm & Marketing product team is now responsible for delivering projects and providing maintenance/ support for Ecommerce/ Voila, all banner Websites & Mobile Apps, the Product Information Management system (Stibo), the Identity and Access Management system, the Digital Asset Management System, the CRM systems, and all other Marketing related systems. Carolyn is an experienced people leader and project delivery lead with over 14 years of experience in retail, including over 8 years in IT.

Christian has been part of the SRAM PLM team for 10 years, first as a Java developer and then administrator for the PIM and PLM systems. Prior to SRAM, he worked 13 years in the Geographic Information Systems industry in various roles.

Dennis Funch Jensen is responsible for driving digital growth and leveraging superior customer experiences and insights at EET Group A/S.

I am 64 years old and have worked for Lenze since 1978. I started in the development of digital controls, then built up CAD systems and classification systems systems for product data.

I was responsible for product data management and sales product configuration in the Lenze SAP System and the rollout of this System around the World. 2017 I started the Project of the Stibo system for Lenze.

Innovative, accomplished business leader with more than 13 years of experience driving revenue, profitability, and market share through successful sales, merchandising, and product content strategies. Demonstrated history of achieving sales and profitability growth across multiple businesses by identifying areas for growth through analysis of customers, market, and product trends. Team-builder with proven ability to attract, retain, and motivate talent to achieve business and individual objectives.

After several experiences in BI and Analytics, Guillaume focused his Career on Master Data Management in consulting where he acquired a strong experience in the field of data management and data governance through various project management positions.
Working now for Manutan for more than 2 years, Guillaume has worked first on the development of the Product Information Management ecosystem to improve process automation and offer extension, before enlarging his scope to embrace a multi-domain data culture.
Currently, Guillaume his working on the elaboration of a group international Cutomer MDM repository and governance.

Jason Kosarek is the Senior Strategic Marketing Manager for one of the largest HVAC manufacturers in the US, Daikin North America. He is responsible for industry forecasting, competitive intelligence, and the Product Information Master. Prior to his current role, Jason spent a decade as a digital marketer focused on martech, sales enablement, and website strategy. He earned his BA and MBA from Harding University.

Alcon is the global leader in eye care, dedicated to helping people see brilliantly and is the largest eye care device company in the world – with complementary businesses in Surgical and Vision Care. Being a truly global company, in over 70 countries and serving patients in more than 140 countries, they have a long history of industry firsts, and each year they commit a substantial amount in Research and Development to meet customer needs and patient demands.  With proven experience supporting Alcon’s digital projects in the medical device field, Jeanette’s capabilities include ensuring smooth interactions between the business and the project team; managing delivery expectations; providing guidance to stakeholders to ensure best outcomes; and driving scalable global initiatives and programs involving strategy, localizations, translation, and compliance.  She continually drives the digital strategy for the UX roadmap, develops functionalities for internal business needs and external customer needs, advocates digital best practices, manages catalogs, content, and email marketing for two eCommerce solutions in three platforms and three countries, while setting priorities, formulating procedures, and writing training for back office tools and processes.

Karen Fregona joined Manutan Group in 2016 as Customer Master Data Manager. Her role covers Customer data quality and management and all processes regarding the customer.
End of 2019, she started the CMDM Project with Stibo System for Manutan

For the past 12 years, Kelly Amavisca has worked at Ferguson Enterprises, the largest U.S. distributor of plumbing supplies, PVF, waterworks and fire and fabrication products. Last year, she stepped into a new role as Director of Enterprise Product Data. In her new role, Kelly leads product MDM initiatives across the $18 billion enterprise, overseeing the onboarding, management and enhancement of product information for more than 1.5 million products. Since 2015, the company has used Stibo Systems’ Product MDM to onboard, manage and syndicate product data across channels.

Lindsay has over 13 years experience within data governance, strategy and retail buying for some of the UK’s biggest names on the high street.
For the last 2 years she has lead the John Lewis Product Data Team as the Data Management Strategy Lead, delivering John Lewis’ Product Data strategy and ensuring that this is aligned to the business strategy. Her key focuses are MDM, Data Governance and driving Data Quality.

Worked for Mitchells & Butlers for 22 years.
10 years operations experience and since worked with data.
Business owner for Mitchells & Butler Master Data Management system
Worked with STEP for 9 years
Member of Stibo Customer Advisory Board

PIM and Search Management, for Imperial Supplies for 4 years
In PIM and systems management for the last 16 years, supporting Marketing and Merchandising operations.
Focus on using data to solve business needs, with an eye toward economy of effort and process continuation.

Maxime has spent 22 years working with intensive transformation programs making teams agile, efficient and committed. After 6 years in manufacturing, 11 years in supply chain (industrial and distribution) and 5 years in digital/IT, he is convinced in the value chain integration from supplier to customer. He believes that, especially within complex organizations, end to end data integration is mandatory.

An experienced Technology Leader with a broad range of skills across multiple technologies and various sectors. Focused on building Business Technology Solutions

Strong management, technical, commercial, delivery & transformation skills gained through industry experience in Technology, Financial Services and Manufacturing verticals, coupled with consultancy, pre-sales and commercial roles.

Skills and expertise include, digital transformation, data management, complex program delivery, run IT, people management.

Based in Eindhoven, Sandra is a passionate marketing, sales and business transformation leader with extensive international experience in both mature and emerging markets. Sandra has a successful track record of leading Lean 6-Sigma breakthrough projects.

My role is to lead teams that design and implement systems that collect information about our products, aggregate it, and publish it to both internal and external customers. As a solution architect, I am responsible for making sure the business needs are solved through process improvement as well as technology and to ensure that those things are supportable in the future. I have previously managed a team and worked on warehousing and inventory management, was a technical lead for sales suite of tools, and a developer working with both data, web services, web interfaces, and mobile applications.

Senem Isik joined Sobeys Inc. as the Technical Product Owner for the websites, Product Information Management and Digital Asset Management systems. With the 14 years of end-to-end experience in Digital Projects, she worked on the selection of the Product Information Management system, integration with upstream/downstream systems, product data model and the overall product data management process at Sobeys for the launch of the new e-commerce platform (Voila.ca). Being a proud member of the Voila Launch project team, she contributed to the initial set up of backend systems and enabled the smooth delivery of the project successfully. Previously, she held a similar Product Owner role at Sony, focusing on global websites, including sony.com, with the PIM, CMS and customer data integration. Recently, she was promoted to IT Manager role for Marketing Products, which would extend her product portfolio and contribute to even larger initiatives in the innovative journey of Sobeys in Digital.

He delivered machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions for Fortune Global 500 as well as other global and local customers in areas of FMCG, Retail, Insurance, Smart Cities and more. He was responsible for co-creation and development of advanced solutions for intelligent Master Data quality improvement.

Since 2018 with msg systems ag – as Principal Project Manager - MDM unit. Four Years at Stibo Systems as PM. 12 Years with IBM, Global Business Services as Sen. Mgmt. Consultant Skill set includes Change Mgmt., KPI Optimisations, Trainings, Business Cases & ROIs, Business & IT Benefit Mgmt, Data Quality Mgmt. & Controlling. STEP PIM & MDM, Siebel/ Oracle CRM, SAP CRM

Andy Crago is the Director of Customer Solutions Group at Infoverity, specializing in Multi-Domain data management, data strategy and the enablement of data solutions to solve business problems and make clients' lives easier.

With over 25 years experience in worldwide Program management, Cécile evolved from finance to IT positions, from operational to management positions, in Industry and IT Service businesses.
Senior manager at Cantor, Cécile supports customers in their IT transformation, from the framing of projects to their deployment. She collaborates with StiboSystems since 2013 on MDM projects.

Charlotte has worked with media companies and brands across the world for more than 20 years, providing insights and advice on creative content creation, intelligent content distribution processes, and digital transformation

David A. Larson is recognized as high impact, influential leader with over 30 years of experience inspiring teams to transform businesses in Information Management and Engineering, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning and AI delivered through Business Intelligence (BI) helping businesses increase their intelligent decisioning capabilities.

He has been with Cognizant for 6 years and previously held leadership positions at IBM, Bank of America and at Nielson donning various roles in consulting and analytics. He is known for his strategic vision and an acute capability to deliver break-through results and has been recognized for global including receiving Cognizant’s Distinguished Analytics Consulting Partner award and IBM’s Excellence in Service award for Business Analytics and Optimization Smarter Planet initiatives from over 40,000 U.S. Associates and nearly 500,000 Global employees.

Mr. Larson holds degrees in Economics and Spatial Analytics from the University of California. He resides in the Rocky Mountains where enjoys wide-range of outdoor activities.

Derek Corrick is an experienced Information Management practitioner with an abiding commitment to the success of his customers. As Pivotree’s General Manager for MDM, he leads a team dedicated to helping companies leverage their information assets to deliver clear and measurable business results, increase sales, drive enterprise efficiency, and enhance customer experience/engagement – all while reducing business risk.

Prior to joining Tenzing, Derek founded and managed successful MDM and Information Management practices at two leading consultancy firms, and served as executive vice president for a major MDM solution provider. His passion spans MDM implementation excellence, change management, business development, and digital transformation.

Dion Lisle is the Owner and Managing Director of B2B Software and Technology FACERE25 (pronounced Fa-Cherry) Consulting Firm in Silicon Valley, with a primary focus on acting as the Rosetta Stone between Legacy Banks and the Fintech startups driving innovation. For over 20 years, Dion has been a technology venture investor and innovation project leader within the data, technology and Fintech space, responsible for for transformational initiatives at global companies such as Citibank, First Data and HP, putting to work over $30M in capital.

An early advocate of the power of AI, Blockchain and Data Analytics, Lisle has shown the power of these underlying technologies as applied to financial services. Lisle is one of the few thought leaders in the space to recognize the transformative power of a well-developed R&D program.

Today Dion is an adviser for Money2020, a mentor for Queen City Fintech and Yodlee Accelerator and is an active advisor for 4 Fintech startups from Edmonton Canada, to Berlin Germany to Silicon Valley. He is often asked to speak at industry conferences and writes on the power of Digital Transformation, ML/AI and the Blockchain to digitally enable and transform yesterday’s financial services by delivering tomorrow’s solutions for a truly Digital Future.

Managing Partner YellowGround and MDM Architect.
I worked for the last 15 years as Consultant in the Master Data Management domain for companies as Toyota Motor Europe, Philips and others.
I started YellowGround 5 years ago and I am now helping our customers with their MDM challenges.

Jean-Christophe Picou has worked for years to improve the value of product data through MDM/PIM systems for international companies. As Data Governance Partner at Micropole he is leading presale and implementation of STEP PIM projects.

Jesper is responsible for driving PIM / MDM initiatives at Vertica A/S.

Joeri is a principle consultant responsible for Business & Market Development as well as partner management at Osudio.
Being active in e-business for more than 15 years, Joeri has extensive experience in PIM, MDM, Marketplaces, and eCommerce in all aspects. He is seen as a trusted advisor in e-business by many clients.

Justin Duling is the SVP Commercial Director for Loqate, a GBG solution that specializes in global address verification and geocode technology powered by the best global address data in the market. Justin is a dynamic and strategic thinker with a bias for action and a strong track record in various business disciplines, including; P&L management, channel development, corporate strategy, corporate business development, enterprise sales management, and advisory/consultancy. As a seasoned speaker and thought leader, he presents annually at key technology conferences such as IBM THINK, Oracle Open World, Stibo Systems Global CONNECT Conference and Oracle Modern Customer Experience.

Most recently, Justin took a start-up from several years of loss into profitability and high double-digit revenue growth, with significant growth projected for foreseeable future. Today, he employs over 20 years of experience in payments, financial technology, location and identity verification to organically formulate new business lines and create strategic partnerships. In his personal life, Justin is a dedicated father, an avid mountain biker, and mountaineer. When he’s not advising for corporations like Gerson Lehrman Group and AlphaSights, Justin spends his time making winter ascents of several of the tallest peaks in North America.

Kirt Hotmer leads the Global Managed Services practice at Infoverity, with a primary focus on providing clients turn-key IT solutions in infrastructure, application, and development services. He has broad experience implementing executive IT strategies bringing clients solutions for balancing costs, service, and quality metrics in achieving operational excellence. He joined Infoverity in 2015 after more than 15 years of IT Operations and Program Management Leadership. In building the Infoverity managed services practice from the ground up he has great depth and understanding of what clients need to achieve their Master Data, Governance, Enterprise Data Strategy and Digital Transformation vision.

Krzysztof Szypillo is the Head of Competency Center at Arhis, where he is responsible for initiatives related to the area of R&D and Implementation Methodology. He has more than 15 years of consulting and managing experience in projects related to Data, including MDM, CRM, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics.

Mark is an expert in digital transformation within content creation and multichannel content distribution. Being one of the driving forces behind the development of Stibo DX’s CUE publishing platform and content hub, Mark’s mission is to make digital storytelling more intuitive for the creators and more engaging for the audiences.

Nic Prellwitz is the Director of Product Solutions at Infoverity with expertise leading organizations to difference making business value through product information management, business process re-engineering, strategic planning, and data strategy initiatives.

Prithwiraj is a leader in Data & Analytics Modernization practice of Deloitte Canada’s Artificial Intelligence group called Omnia AI. A well-travelled professional, experienced with key business focused technology development, IT vision & strategy maturation and large-scale program deliveries around the globe. With extensive data focused hands on experience in Master Data Management, Data Quality and Data Governance solutions across industry leading tools and technologies, he has helped customers to imagine, deliver and run future ready enterprise data management projects solving core business problems.

Riccardo Nalesso has been working for Poet GmbH for over 12 years. As a senior consultant for PIM & MDM systems, he is in direct contact with well-known companies on a daily basis. Together with his team, he provides strategic, professional and technological advice to companies across all industries in their digital transformation. In addition, Mr. Nalesso deals with the latest e-commerce trends and has extensive experience with online B2B marketplaces.

Roel van Alebeek has been involved in internet development projects since early 2000. Focusing more and more on eCommerce projects he has been leading complex B2C and B2B platform implementations for over 20 different customers.

During those years the importance of product data quality and master data management has been evident, leading to a number of projects where both eCommerce and MDM have been combined.

Sabrina has been working for the digital agency dotSource since 2013. Together with more than 300 colleagues, she supports companies in digitizing marketing, sales and services. After several years in marketing, she has first-hand knowledge of the challenges involved in the central management and channel-specific processing of data. She uses this experience in her position as a consultant and project manager in the field of PIM/MDM to meet her clients’ requirements for a system and to optimally implement the associated processes.

Sathyaraj is a practice leader with the MDM / PIM / CDP practice, which is part of the larger Artificial Intelligence and Analytics (AIA) practice in Cognizant.
He has 20+ years of experience on both sides of the aisle viz. Industry and software services firms. During his tenure at Cognizant, he has been part of large transformation engagements in the master data space either as an advisor, consultant or as part of an implementation team. His mantra for customer success lies in formulating a long term strategy (Endurance, Durability and Permanence) and putting teammates before anything else.
Sathyaraj lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Apart from work, he is an avid reader, trail runner and a value investor.

Experienced Practice Lead with a demonstrated history of working in the information services industry. Skilled in B2B Organizations, Data Analytics, Data Modeling, and Pre-Sales. Strong consulting professional with a Degree from Marquette University.

Abin has over 14 years of experience in the Enterprise Software Industry. He has been with Stibo Systems for more than 9 years in professional services and product management functions. As Product Strategy Manager for Multi-domain MDM, his current focus is on leveraging strategic third-party integrations and multi-domain capabilities of Stibo Systems Products. During his previous roles in Stibo Systems, he has helped customers leverage data as a strategic asset while leading large MDM implementations and consulting on Data Governance.

Andy Phillips is Director of Analyst Relations at Stibo Systems, focusing on engagement with important analyst firms, such as Gartner and Forrester, and channelling analyst insight back into the organisation to improve products, marketing, sales and our ongoing business strategy. He has over 20 years sector experience working in-house and agency-side for technology companies that include Adobe, Cisco, ARM, Samsung, WorldCom, Emarsys, Avanti, Lucent and Toshiba. This experience covers a wide range of communications and marketing disciplines. Andy is also a qualified electronics and computing engineer.

Bjarne Hald is the chief technology officer for Stibo Systems and is responsible for our technology roadmap and cloud operations. Passionate about creating technology that provides real value to customers, Bjarne sold his first home-developed software components in his teens and has continued to develop software professionally ever since.

Brian Cluster is Stibo Systems’ Industry Strategy Director, specialised in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail industries. He has a strong 20-year track record of collaborating on strategy, building and delivering analytics, and business & digital transformation. At Stibo Systems, Brian is putting his varied industry expertise to good use, providing direction and strategy for our field teams and helping driving
customer value for master data management solutions.

Brian has been with Stibo for over 6 years and has a diverse background working across multiple departments and roles - including implementing solutions for customers, managing product development, enabling Partners. He is currently leveraging his product and solution expertise as a Presales Solution consultant.

Daniela Reyes joined Stibo Systems LATAM in 2015. Since then, Daniela has led various successful implementations of Customer MDM, Product MDM and Product LCM across South, Central and North America. In 2018, Daniela brought her positivism and expansive experience to the North America team, joining the Atlanta office as a Senior Consultant. Daniela is a SME in STEP Publishing, and a passionate problem solver that constantly seeks to fill client’s business needs with the best technical solution STEP has to offer.

Darren Cooper is Director of Industry Strategy for Stibo Systems, the global leader in Business-first Master Data Management (MDM)™ solutions. Darren has spent much of his career in software sales consulting. Since 2002, he has specialized in information management, advising companies on selecting and implementing software tools that support their data governance strategy. As Director of Industry Strategy, Darren helps business leaders understand and quantify the positive impact that good data governance and in particular master data management, can have on an organisation. Darren is British, speaks French fluently and holds a Distinguished IT Specialist certification from the Open Group.

Helen is the Solution Strategy Director for Customer Master Data Management. She brings +20 years’ experience in customer and product data, and information and image management, at a variety of data management organizations. Her multidomain expertise and insight makes her a valued resource for Stibo Systems’ customers and colleagues. Her passion for data and using the data hidden away in client organizations allows us to help our clients in new ways!

Ian joined Stibo Systems in 2018 as Director of Solution Strategy. His role covers Platform, Product Master Data Management and Product Data Syndication. Ian helps organizations to optimize their business outcomes through the delivery of innovative technology solutions that support digital transformation initiatives. Ian has more than 15 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, he is an accomplished marketer and an accredited GS1 Standards practitioner. He has a keen eye for where customers can capitalize on data to drive value.

Jane is the Director of Stibo Systems MDM Academy and has worked with learning & development for 20+ years. Her experience spans a broad range of organisations and roles combined with many different approaches to training, driven by a passion for developing and delivering engaging training programs with high impact and business value.

Janet has over 20 years experience working in retail and e-commerce focused on product content, optimizing the online shopping experience and product on-boarding. As the Director of Product Data Syndication Janet has been helping Manufacturers & Brands drive growth by ensuring their product data is syndicated to all their valued partners as well as working with Grocers and Retailers to ensure they are receiving the content they need from their suppliers to remain agile in an ever evolving market.

Jesper brings two decades of experience with Product MDM and his current capacity as Product Strategy Director, Multidomain MDM. Jesper is responsible for our multi- and cross-domain capabilities and roadmap, strategic integrations, generic methods of productization, data governance and Data as a Service. Jesper enjoys sharing his knowledge, which is probably why he decided to work four years as Associate Professor at Denmark’s largest university college of applied sciences, teaching computer science and technology.

Jignesh is an innovative product management professional with extensive experience and knowledge of data quality, master data management and data management solutions. He's responsible for the product strategy and direction for Stibo Systems' Customer Master Data Management solution and has a passion for helping organizations realise the value of arguably their greatest asset, data.

As a Solution Architect in our North America Professional Services organization, Josh Swalheim comes with an astute focus on maximizing solution value for Stibo customers. Josh is a product domain expert with 10+ years of experience in the Retail and CPG verticals. His portfolio includes digital transformation, process optimization, data governance and quality standardization, and building strategic roadmaps.

Karsten Dehler is director for the Stibo Accelerator, supporting talented young students and relevant startup companies and connecting them with research project partners, industry insight, and mentors from the vast Stibo network. Karsten combines his entrepreneurial background within digital knowledge management with value creation through IoT and Digital Business Models

Kim Svendsen is the Chief Innovation Officer for the Stibo Group and founder of the Stibo Accelerator, an initiative launched in 2014 to support talented young students and relevant startup companies and connecting them with research project partners, industry insight, and mentors from the vast Stibo network.

Kimberly Southerland is Director of Presales Enablement for North America for Stibo Systems. She began her career in high-tech manufacturing using data and analytics to drive revenue. Her passion for outcome thinking has led to a demonstrated track record of success at both Fortune 500 firms and Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). She is a proven, results driven leader who leverages data science to drive business outcomes across Stibo Systems’ customers in consumer product goods, retail, fashion, healthcare, automotive, hi-tech, and semiconductor.

Lynn Hedegard has been involved in the Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence industry for over 35 years, contributing to numerous DW & Big Data implementations. Lynn’s areas of expertise include Big Data, Enterprise Architecture, Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, High Availability, Event Processing, Data Mining, Quantitative Analytics, & Business Automation.

Michael has over 4 years experience managing projects for CPG, Medical, Financial, and Manufacturing customers.

He has been with Stibo Professional Services for over 2 years with a project portfolio consisting of multiple domain implementations and upgrades spanning STEP versions 7.0 to 10.0.

Leading the mission of promoting Stibo Systems MDM offering to prospects and partners, Mogens is also responsible for facilitating partners into the partner community and support them in being successful in their engagements with customers and Stibo Systems.
Mogens has been with Stibo Systems for 30 years and has a vast experience in the IT industry, having held several different management and leadership positions, and working with many different aspects of IT.

Senior Sales Consultant with the North American sales organization for the last six years. Bringing more than a decade in the master data management experience, working for best-of-breed and large vendors such as Initiate and IBM, and nine years in the Business Intelligence space across many industries and domains. The experience is key to position Stibo's multidomain platform across various use cases: operational and analytical.

Patrick’s passion is to motivate people and see them growing in their skills. With 15 + years of experience in training he is, as a Principal Learning Specialist, part of the Stibo Systems MDM Academy team. His passion fits perfectly in the training philosophy of the MDM Academy. Their training is built up around motivating people to achieve better personal and business results?

During the Connect conference, Patrick will be facilitating a workshop to inspire you by the MDM Academy’s approach to training. Don't expect to just sit and listen as you will be actively participating in this workshop.

Rob is the VP of Presales for Stibo Systems - Americas, and runs our Global Center of Excellence. He has been with Stibo Systems for 16 years. Outside the office he enjoys being a professional musician, and enjoys coin collecting, golf and hiking with his family.

I’m an avid Data enthusiast, who wants to leave his mark by helping Customers win not only battles but the whole war on their Digital led Business Transformation. The secret sauce that I offer is how to better manage their data and how not to mess with Master Data. Without Master Data you can build an arsenal of expensive missiles, but will perhaps never be able to fire them at the right target.

I have been with Stibo Systems for over 2 years helping people manage their data. Having graduated from the University of Alabama, I am an avid Alabama and Eagles football fan as well as Philadelphia hockey fan. In my free time I can be found hiking the sunny Red Rocks, biking, at live concerts or mixing music at local establishments as the DJ.

Sven has more than 18 years experience in helping customers around world solving their master data challenges.
Sven heads up pre-sales engineering in EMEA at Stibosystems.

A seasoned product leader with 20+ years experience of Product Management & Management, leading companies to create great products through market driven and value lead product management.
Before joining Stibo Systems as Director Product Strategy for Product MDM, I served senior product positions with companies such as eBay and Fujitsu.

Zach Tribble is a Program Director at Stibo Systems with the primary role of acting as the liaison between clients and project teams to ensure successful delivery. He brings extensive consulting and architecture experience that allows him to implement designs with his teams that speak to all levels of a client’s organization. A big supporter of multidomain, Zach has guided Customer, Product, and Location MDM efforts successfully for dozens of clients across multiple industries including retail, distribution, CPG, manufacturing, and financial. Zach received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech.