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Mike Saliter has nearly 20 years of hands on experience in the Business Intelligence and Analytics market. He heads up the Industry Solutions organization comprised of global industry experts who lead Qlik’s industry and functional go-to-market initiatives spanning sales, marketing, solutions and partners. Prior to joining Qlik in 2011, Mike spent three years as Business Unit Executive for global Industry Solutions within IBM’s Business Analytics division and six years at Cognos in various presales, sales and marketing leadership roles. Prior to Cognos, he consulted for Accenture on various BI related projects. Mike has a BS in Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Mike Potter is responsible for leading Qlik’s product management and R&D efforts. Since joining Qlik in 2014, Mike has scaled the R&D team and played a critical role in driving the product and transforming the delivery cadence from one major product release a year to multiple product lines released throughout the year.

Previously, Mike worked at Cognos for thirteen years, and was one of the originators of Cognos Business Intelligence products. After IBM’s acquisition of Cognos, he spent six years with the company leading global development organizations for Financial Performance Management and BI across the various Cognos product lines. Prior to joining Qlik, Mike was Senior Vice President of Engineering at CA Technologies, where he led a global development organization within the IT Infrastructure space.

Mike was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is an accomplished inventor with multiple patents and expertise in financial analytics, financial performance management, data and business modelling, master data management, OLAP, SQL, and data access.

Mike holds both a Bachelor of Computer Science degree and Master of Computer Science degree from the University of Ottawa.

Paul Van Siclen has over 18 years of Banking and Finance industry experience, holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Florida, a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Jacksonville University, and is a Certified Public Accountant. Prior to joining Qlik, he was a Divisional CFO for Qlik customer CIT Group, Inc. where he successfully led the implementation of the QlikView platform. The solution enjoyed typical QlikView success in consolidating 13 disparate systems, is used across the globe, and was delivered on time and under budget.

Michael Noonan is head of Research at Independent Schools Victoria, a member-based organisation serving 219 schools. Michael is a social researcher who has led numerous national research and evaluation projects spanning the Schools, Vocational Education and Training and University sectors. He has conducted research with all Australia governments and consulted to most Australian universities. Michael specialises in policy and program evaluation, strategy, and quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. He holds a first class honours degree from The University of Melbourne and is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society.

Paul Mclean is the Data Literacy Lead - APAC at Qlik. His focus is to bring to light and enhance overall skills in data literacy. As part of his role, Paul is helping individuals realize their true human potential and increased net worth, whilst also guiding organizations in realizing the true value in their data, human capital and analytical potential in an ever growing digital economy.

Prior to his current role, Paul was also a trainer, executive mentor and coach at Qlik for close to three years. He is extremely passionate about education and enablement and has worked with other brands such as Samsung, Konica Minolta, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific, SAVVIS Inc.and Canon to support their team development and over business growth in the APAC region.

When not dealing with data and analytics, Paul spends time in Indonesia where he founded his first charity – Dreams for Life. Dreams for Life aims to address the significant lack of early childhood education and literacy within poverty stricken communities.

Suganthi is a Chartered Accountant of Singapore, CA (Singapore) under the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ICSA). She has extensive experience in auditing with KPMG Peat Marwick (as it was then called) and was running the Accounting and Finance department of a rig and shipbuilding arm of SembCorp. Suganthi has exemplary feedback as a Lecturer in the School of Business Management at Nanyang Polytechnic where she taught Financial and Cost Accounting to Business and Engineering students as well as Business Communication and Business Etiquette to graduating students. Interestingly, she then steered her career towards enterprise software. Given her strong training background, she started off as a software trainer and trained internal staff, clients and business partners to use financial consolidation, strategic and operational planning, and analytics software to resolve complex business challenges. She was an award winning regional trainer for Hyperion Software Asia and helped start up the business in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Middle East and South-East Asia. She enjoyed a very fast and progressive career with Hyperion where she grew into Asia’s Top Sales Person, Best Performing Regional Sales Director and Best Regional Managing Director. She has created and managed high-performance teams and an ecosystem of business partners from scratch and motivated them with her relentless energy and passion. Repeating her performances throughout her software career, she has led teams to pursue and win the biggest deals in Asia in her region in data management with Informatica, and then BackOffice Associates and in supply chain in JDA Software.

Richard Palmer is a principal analyst in Ovum's Public Sector team, providing research to support clients across the higher education, government, healthcare, and utilities industries.

Joining Ovum in 2017 after 15 years in the higher education sector, Richard has held senior roles at both the University of Melbourne and Monash University, completing his engagement at the latter as interim CIO.

Richard has significant experience in IT strategy, governance, service and project management, cybersecurity, and risk management within higher education. He has led university-wide IT reforms in IT security, service management, governance, organizations, and infrastructure.

His research encompasses emerging issues for technology and business leaders, IT strategy, technology enablement, and digital transformation.

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Bhaskar is a BI and Analytics veteran at Wipro and comes to 15+ years of experience in the space. He is currently a Director in Wipro for APAC Geography. He has delivered large scale engagements in Digital and Analytics space in the geography and is a pioneer in the area in Wipro.

Patric Nordström was the CEO and co-founder of Idevio, the mapping company Qlik acquired in 2016. After the merger Patric became the senior product manager for Qlik GeoAnalytics. He has more than twenty years of experience of project management and geographic software production. Patric has two Master Degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University and lives on the west coast of Sweden with his wife and two children.

Fred is the US and global CEO of Pomerol Partners. This 2013 spin-out from Deutsche Bank (London) is a leading Qlik analytics services provider and developer of Blockchain solutions. During his tenure at Deutsche Bank, he served the Equities Prime Services division in various finance roles – from analyst to controller to manager - with a specialization in Securities Lending. He serves on the Qlik Americas Partner Advisory Council and was recently recognized as a 2017 Qlik Luminary.

Philip is a seasoned technology professional with hands-on experience implementing enterprise-wide solutions globally for Fortune 500 companies. His experience includes ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), SCM (Supply Chain Management) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solutions, and now is passionately delivering modern analytics solutions for his clients at the Bardess Group. Able to work in various roles, Philip has led large diverse teams in solving technically challenging business problems. Full lifecycle implementations from conceptualizing the solution with CxO level management, designing system functionality in collaboration with SME’s and project stakeholders, to hands-on specification and code development, Philip has always delivered pragmatic solutions that balance competing tradeoffs.

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Dr. Edelist is an executive and planning solution’s architect with proven expertise in C-Level collaboration, business, and data analysis.

Over 20 years, he has led dozens of projects and teams in diverse sectors around the world including financial institutions, government, telecommunications, high-tech, retail, manufacturing, and education.

Dr. Edelist held different executive and academic positions. Additionally, he has developed business-excellence models utilizing innovative system architecture and advanced CPM solutions.

Dr. Edelist is an executive and planning solution’s architect with proven expertise in C-Level collaboration, business, and data analysis.

Over 20 years, he has led dozens of projects and teams in diverse sectors around the world including financial institutions, government, telecommunications, high-tech, retail, manufacturing, and education.

Dr. Edelist held different executive and academic positions. Additionally, he has developed business-excellence models utilizing innovative system architecture and advanced CPM solutions.

Sajid leads the Qlik Financial Services Consulting delivery practice. He has over 25 years of industry experience building solutions for the Financial Services Industry. Sajid has implemented numerous Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions for various Financial Services clients in the US and abroad. Has hands-on experience on a number of BI tools. Expertise in various project management, business process and data modeling disciplines.

Steven Totman is the Financial Services Industry Lead and Big Data Evangelist for Cloudera’s Field Technology Office, helping companies monetize their big data assets using Cloudera’s Enterprise Data Hub. Steve works with several hundred customers worldwide and helps across verticals in architectures around data management tools, data models, and ethical data usage. Previously, Steve ran strategy for a mainframe-to-Hadoop company and drove product strategy at IBM for DataStage and Information Server after joining with the Ascential acquisition. He architected IBM’s Infosphere product suite and led the design and creation of governance and metadata products like Business Glossary and Metadata Workbench. Steve holds several patents in data integration and governance and metadata-related designs. Although he is based in NYC, Steve is happiest onsite with customers wherever they may be in the world and still finds it weird talking about himself in the 3rd person.

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In his role as Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, Josh is responsible for product marketing, messaging and go-to-market strategies for Qlik’s cloud and freemium offerings. Josh has spent over 10 years in the BI and analytics space, as a customer, seller and marketer. In his 7 years at Qlik, Josh has held positions in presales and most recently Product Marketing. As a presales consultant he was a key member of innovating Qlik's go-to-market through inside sales.

Prior to Qlik, Josh led business intelligence and analytics projects at a premium outdoor clothing company. He also has experience in government acquisitions and biomechanical research. Josh holds a Bachelor's of Applied Science and a Master's of Science from Queen's University. He currently resides in Vancouver, Canada.

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Kevin McGovern is a Solution Architect with Slalom Consulting, specializing in Data Visualization and Analytics for over three years. Prior to Slalom, Kevin worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a Lead Reporting Developer. Kevin has worked with QlikView for over five years and leads Slalom's National Qlik Community. He has spoken at Qonnections multiple times and is a frequent contributor to the Qlik Branch community.

Nick Curcuru has over 20 years of experience successfully implementing and managing large scale advanced analytics projects across the world for such companies as The Walt Disney Company, Capital One, Home Depot, Burlington Northern Railroad, Merrill Lynch and The General Electric Company. Nick is comfortable communicating to C-suite executives by helping drive strategic decisions through the use of data and analytics.

In his role at MasterCard Advisors, Nick works with executives on their big data strategy to unlock and monetize the value of the organizations’ structured and unstructured data assets. He leads a team of advisors implementing large scale advanced analytics initiatives using a variety of technology including open source solutions like Hadoop to drive customer and operational insights. Nick’s team helps architect big data solutions addressing the people, processes and technology needed to enable data driven insights and fact based decisions. Additionally, he provides thought leadership on the value of big data to companies. Nick is a trusted thought leader, frequently speaking at conferences, publishing articles and conducting learning programs on advanced analytics.

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