2017

Melissa Coates is a Business Intelligence Architect with SentryOne. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, she specializes in delivering Analytics, Data Warehousing, and Business Intelligence solutions using on-premises, cloud, and hybrid technologies. Formerly a CPA, Melissa is ridiculously proud to be an IT geek and downright giddy to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. When Melissa […]

Kent Colling founded BluEyeQ LLC to pursue a long time entrepreneurial goal of revealing the Vision and Intelligence hidden within data. Throughout his extensive career in data communications and remote sensing, Kent has been awed by the transformative insight gained with seemingly simple forms of data. The rapid expansion of the IIoT and Big Data […]

• 25+ years creating and using options-based analytic infrastructure to value, manage and invest in various types of credit risk o Senior Consultant, Andrew Davidson & Co. o VP of Pricing and Asset Acquisitions at Ocwen Financial o Managing Director, Head of Modeling and Analytics, HSBC Securities o VP of Structured Transactions Freddie Mac o […]

Anil is a Software Development Manager at Cisco Systems, with around 20 years of experience in IT industry in architecture, design and development of enterprise class applications. He is currently leading the Pricing, Build & Price and Analytics tracks as part of the the Cisco’s Commerce transformation initiative enabling the Cisco’s NextGen eCommerce Platform. Anil […]

Michael Dulin, MD, PhD is the Chief Medical Officer for Tresata Health, a next generation healthcare analytics software company based in Charlotte, NC. He also directs the Academy for Population Health Innovation – a novel collaborative between the Mecklenburg County Health Department and UNC Charlotte. Over his 30-year career, Dulin’s work has spanned the technology […]

Ric Elias is the CEO and co-founder of Red Ventures – a marketing and technology company headquartered just south of Charlotte, NC. A native to Puerto Rico, Ric attended Boston College and Harvard Business School before beginning his career as part of GE’s Financial Management program. Ric co-founded Red Ventures in 2000, just days before […]

Jake Finkelstein is the Founder & CEO of Method Savvy; a Durham, NC based full-service marketing agency that uses data-driven strategies to help growth-stage and enterprise organizations solve complex business problems. An accomplished brand marketer and demand generation specialist, Jake began his career in the music industry, most notably at Sony Music Entertainment where he […]

Len Fishman leads business development at Public Benefit Corporation and Certified B-Corp, data.world. Launched in 2016, data.world’s mission is to build the world’s most collaborative, abundant, and meaningful data resource. Before joining data.world, he was co-founder of two ventures. The first, pledge4good, was a social fundraising platform that he founded while completing his MBA and […]