Andreas works as a strategic advisor within the area of Information Management. He has many years of experience with IT and business strategic challenges, both as a consultant and as a manager. Andreas has over the last years paid a special interest in the psychological challenges in the context of technology and strategy development and implementation. Andreas is presently Vice President of Consulting at Platon’s Norwegian office. He holds a Bsc in Systems Analysis and a Masters degree in Management with specialization in Organizational psychology.

Christian Hoffmann has been working as manager of the BI-project of the Danish Prison and Probation Service for a year. He has a background from the municipality of Hvidovre in the department of education and economics as a deputy manager. Before that he was employed at the County of Copenhagen. He is a master of political science from the University of Aalborg.

Don is a Senior Solutions Program Manager with HP’s Business Critical Server Business Unit. He is a recognized BI expert and a frequent speaker at business intelligence and data warehousing events and conferences, His focus is helping HP customers and business partners understand underlying infrastructure strategies for the deployment of industry leading BI solutions. Prior to this role, Don has had positions at HP as BI Product Marketing Manager and Lead Technical Consultant for SAS Institute. Before joining HP, he was the Principle in Analytical Processing, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in solutions and systems for scientific, engineering, and financial applications.

Frank is one of the world’s leading experts in business intelligence and performance management, and is known for his out-of-the-box and forward-thinking approach. With 20 years of experience, Frank has worked as a project manager, management consultant, business manager, Gartner analyst and strategist. Within Oracle, his primary responsibility is simple: to define and lead the future of Business Intelligence and EPM. Part strategy consultant, part strategist, part trend spotter, Frank concentrates on next practices, instead of best practices.

Henrik Pedersen, cand.techn.soc. from Roskilde University Centre, 1985: CIO in Gentofte Municipality and responsible for IT-department, digital strategy and digital development and strategic analyses and shared business development. Gentofte Municipality has 69.000 citizenz and 9.500 employees.

Hjortur Thorgilsson is the CIO of Icelandair. He has worked with the company since 1985. He has a University degree in Business Administration from University of Iceland and started his carrier in Icelandair working on financial related projects, but have been working on IT related items since 1997.

Jan is the global Vice President of IS/IT at FLSmidth. Before coming to FLSmidth he was the global Chief Information Officer for the LEGO Group where he played an active role in the turnaround throughout the past 5 years, and prior to this he worked for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for many years as a consultant and a line manager particularly in the Business Intelligence area. He holds a BSc in Computer Science.

Jan Kolbye Jensen is a Project Director at Falck A/S.
As a former Regional Director with executive responsibilities for ambulance service, fire services and road side assistance, he has led a series of changes within operations management, planning and dispatch - involving process design, organisational design. This experience also includes implementation of relevant Key Performance Indicators and supporting information systems, designed to support the chosen strategy in a nationwide service organisation with more than 7000 Employees.

Jan has an held several executive positions within Healtch Care and the Service industry.
Currently Jan is working on various strategic projects within the Danish Emergency division.

Jeanette joined Business Objects as Nordic Sales Director in 2006 and in January 2008 she was appointed as Nordic Regional Director. Jeanette has been working in the Business intelligence industry for more than 10 years. Jeanette holds a degree in Business Administrations and Economics from Lunds University in Sweden.

Jens Peder is one of Platon’s lead consultants on strategic and tactical advisory within the areas of Information Lifecycle Management and Corporate Data Policy. He carries more than 10 years of experience from numerous projects across many industries. Jens Peder has for some time been Senior Principal with a development and quality responsibility regarding consultancy as well as Platon’s ILM report solution ILMAS. Jens Peder is regularly used as speaker at national Information Lifecycle Management conferences.

Jesper is heading the Corporate Performance Management competence center in Platon. He has more than 10 years practical experience with running Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management projects and is working with project from both the IT and the business perspective. Prior to his consultant career, Jesper worked 6 years as a controller for a large Danish company.

Jesper is one of Platon’s lead consultants on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Jesper is a Senior Principal Consultant in Platon Denmark and carries more than 10 years of experience in designing and implementing solutions across many industries and technologies. He plays a major role in developing Platons best practise guidelines and standards within Data Warehousing. He also holds a Masters degree in business administration and computer science.

Jesper Schleimann is director of the Intelligence Platform Division of SAS Institute, Denmark. The Intelligence Platform Division is responsible for the SAS software infrastructure for data integration, business intelligence and analytics.
Before joining SAS in 2004, Jesper worked for CSC as a business developer and for eHuset as an IT-consultant. Jesper has 12 years of combined experience from the IT-industry. He holds a M.Sc. in economics from the University of Copenhagen.

Jon Kjeldsen is the Data Warehouse Manager in Alm. Brand. His experience covers more than 20 year of work with IT and more than 10 years within the field of Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW). Before joining Alm. Brand, Jon Kjeldsen worked as a consultant with focus on advisory within BI&DW. He holds a bachelor in finance and a Masters Degree in computer science from Copenhagen University.

Jørgen is one of Platon’s lead consultants on strategic advisory within the areas of Information Management and Business Intelligence. He carries more than 10 years of experience from numerous projects across many industries. Jørgen is presently Vice President for Platon’s Corporate Consulting department and also carries the role as Practice Director across the other consulting divisions of the company. Jørgen is regularly used as speaker at national and international Information Management conferences. He holds a Masters degree in business administration and computer science.

Karen Klitgaard is Business Chief Information Officer (BCIO) for IT Credit and Risk area within Nordea. Karen has through the past 5 years worked with Financial and Risk reporting and analysis in many different initiatives e.g. implementation of the Basel II program within Nordea. She has more than 20 years of experience within IT development and methodologies and has been teaching Information Modeling and Object Oriented Analysis and Design for more than 2000 students during the past 10 years.

Karin Hamberg, M Sc, EMBA, Enterprise Architect at Ericsson AB, Group IT, (M Sc in Applied Physics from University of Uppsala, Executive MBA from Stockholm School of Economics) has worked at Ericsson since graduation in different positions in the business organisation. In 2003 she joined the corporate IT organisation and started in the newly formed IM team. Since last summer she has been part of the Enterprise Architecture team with responsibility for Information Architecture.

Kartin Ernst Hockauf is the head of a division in Agency for Governmental Management, which is part of the Danish Ministry of Finance. He is responsible for the ERP and BI Solutions SQl which is used in most of the Danish agencies. Past experience as Management Consultant in PA Consulting Group and as Business Unit Manager for Microsoft Dynamics in EDB Gruppen and Maersk Data.

Kasper is the system manager of the BSC-system in Novo Nordisk and as such responsible of development and maintenance of the system. He has 10 years of data warehouse experience in large Danish companies. To ensure that BI solutions developed brings value to the business, Kasper has always been employed in line of business.

Kjell is an industry expert within the field of Information Management advising large Scandinavian companies on strategic Information Management issues. He is the lead architect on Platon’s unique Information Management methodology (Platon Insight®) covering every aspect of enterprise-wide Information Management. He carries the responsibility for knowledge capturing, sharing and leveraging among Platon’s more than 160 employees. Mr. Wittmaack received his Master of Science degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from Copenhagen Business School.

Klaus Kvorning Hansen has a master’s degree in philosophy and he has since 1994 held various positions connected to IT in the financial sector.
He is senior vice president and head of Development and Services at PenSam. He has in particular been involved in closing the gap between it and business (securing the strategic alignment). The last 3 years he has been responsible for the development of PenSam's business strategy and has as a member of the top management been strongly involved in the execution of it.

Peter Fabricius has worked in several international companies in many different sectors including, Deloitte, Olicom, GEA, GN Resound prior to joining Th. Wessel & Vett. Graduated from the Business School of Copenhagen, he holds a Bachelor in Finance/Audit as well as a Master in Business Economics and IT. Today, Peter is a member of the group senior management team.

Lars Thuesen is an experienced public sector leader, who has been dealing with many projects within the areas of performance management, organisational development, leadership training, quality management and HRM. He is an experienced project and programme manager. He is a master in political science, has a background from the Ministry of Finance and as a management consultant in Ernst & Young, and during the last year he has completed an executive master in change management from Oxford University and HEC in Paris.

Laura Sousa's rich career covers information technology as executive, strategist, project/program manager and consultant. As the Director of IT Renewal at Canadian Tire, Laura is leading a $60 Million program to significantly transform the technical infrastructure underpinning Canadian Tire's mission critical applications. The cornerstone of the 4 year program is based on developing a business driven Master Data Management implementation strategy that will serve as a strong foundational element to guide the infrastructure transformation. Prior to joining Canadian Tire, Laura has held senior roles in IT with Marsh Canada Ltd, a $320 MM risk management and brokerage firm, Digital 4Sight, a $40MM internet research and strategy management consulting firm, and Andersen Consulting, now named Accenture, where she gained most of her technical and consulting expertise. Laura holds an MBA from the University of Ottawa, and a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada

Michael Coveney is co-author of the acclaimed business book ‘The Strategy Gap’ published by J Wiley & Sons and a past course developer and leader with the American Management Association. Michael has more than 30 years of experience in the financial analytic software industry where he specialised in helping enterprises combine ‘best management practices’ with technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their performance management processes. Michael has been involved in the design and implementation of performance management systems for many of the world's leading commercial organizations such as BP, ICI and Guinness. He also conducts management workshops aimed at bringing senior executives and their management teams together around the topic of managing corporate performance. These have been conducted in the private sector with companies such as FedEx, HSBC, Alpro, Novo Nordisk, SEB Bank and Philamlife as well as in the public sector with organizations such as Bank of England, Inland Revenue and a number of city councils. His extensive experience has led him to become a regular speaker at many international events.

Michael has been in Payment Business Services (PBS) for 11 years, the last four as manager of the Business Intelligence department. Michael is responsible for running the Business Intelligence process and facilitating the move from mainframe based DB2 solutions to a decentralized SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform. Michael holds a Master of Science in Engineering from Denmark’s technical university.

Michael Smith is the Director of Marketing for Microsoft Business Intelligence. Mr. Smith is responsible for all of the corporate marketing, customer relationship marketing, web marketing, and industry analyst and public relations programs for Microsoft Business Intelligence products. Mr. Smith has over 15 years of experience in the field of performance management, business intelligence and data warehousing and he has held positions in marketing, sales and business development at software companies such as Informatica, and Rubric Software as well as management consulting positions at Deloitte Consulting and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Michael Smith holds an M.B.A. in Marketing from the Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon University as well as a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and Industrial Management also from Carnegie Mellon.

Mikko is CIO of VVO Corporation, which is Finland’s leading provider of housing services, with 40.000 rental homes around the country under its ownership. Mikko has over 20 years of experience from IBM and PwC Consulting, mainly it the areas of IT strategies and IT governance. He has been speaker and chairman at a large number of conferences. He holds M.Sc. (Engineering) and B.Sc.(Economics).

Morten Middelfart established a successful BI company in 1996, which, in 1997, was acquired by TARGIT that hired him as CTO. His key mission is to redefine the term “user-friendliness” within BI software and Morten’s work has lead to several patents. Morten finished his first Ph.D. by publishing his book about Computer Aided Leadership and Management (CALM) which sets the agenda in university lectures. He is currently working on his second Ph.D. titled “Optimizing Business Intelligence with the OODA Framework”.

Morten embraces on more than 10 years of experience working, as a consultant, with Business Intelligence, MDM and EAI on numerous projects and across various industries. He is part of the Knowledge & IT department in Platon Corporate and is responsible for managing the development of project and service accelerators. Morten holds a Masters degree in business administration and computer science.

Niels Hundahl is Knowledge Architect in Platon and head of the development of Platon Insight®. Niels has 15 years of experience working in large Danish organizations, within the area of IT development projects, about 10 years within the area of Information Management. Niels has worked in a number of roles, including designer, programmer, architect, project manager and team leader – always with a focus on the structured and most efficient approach. Niels holds a Masters degree in Communications and Computer Science.

Niels Lademark has worked with various aspects of Master Data and Data Quality since the late 90’s both on the business side and in IT. Before joining Platon he worked as Information and Business architect at the Danish National Railroads (DSB). Here he was project manager on a organization spanning Information Management project aimed to improve the Customer Relationship Management (loyalty programs, segmentation , campaign management, service center support), Performance Management (Balanced Scorecard and Activity Based Costing) and Resource management (H.R. and Inventories) . The project involved identifying and supporting business drivers through architecture and policy making on Master Data, Metadata, Business Intelligence and Integration Architecture.

After interesting voyage in developing Ernst & Young information architecture in Finland has started also a business process development program that is integrated with the architecture development. Before Ernst & Young he worked as a Data Warehouse consultant and as Data Warehouse specialist at Fujitsu Services. His overall experience in Data Warehousing is about 4 years.

Nils is presently the Business Development Manager of Platon Norway. With an ongoing focus on Information Management offerings with both customer requirements and technology advancements, he also does strategic advisory within the area of Information Management. He has ten years of experience with delivering service oriented systems, business intelligence solutions and developing Information Management strategies. He holds a BsC in System Development and a Master degree in Information Technology and Management.

Director Service Operation in the Health Care Logisticts division of Nomeco A/S, Denmark's largest pharmaceutical wholesaler and competency center for the pharmaceutical industry. Ole Markussen has a Background as Business Program Manager with Invacare Europe and Senior Manager (CPA) with PriceWaterHouse Denmark.

Oskar was head of Business Intelligence at Teris (former computer centre of the Icelandic savings banks) from 2000 to 2006 where he among other things designed and developed the solution which supports SPRON in its cash back program. In 2007 Oskar worked for SPRON’s business development creating Information and business Intelligence strategy for SPRON and worked as a program manager for various BI initiative. In beginning of 2008 Oskar became manager of LAX Solutions, a joint venture company owned by SPRON and Teris focusing on BI solutions for credit card portfolio and loyalty program management.

Paul Woodlock is a business process and management expert with over 20 years experience in delivering business-focused information technology solutions. Throughout his career Paul has focused on the intersection of business and technology – initially in delivering specialised applications for financial services clients. Throughout the ‘90s Paul managed the design and deployment of large multinational supply chain solutions in the US, Canada and Western Europe. Prior to joining Informatica Paul worked for a global consulting company where he was responsible for the delivery of data and information quality solutions for its clients.

Peder is one of Platon’s lead consultants on strategic advisory within the areas of Information Management and Business Intelligence. He carries more than 13 years of experience within the BI/IM area and has advised a number of companies regarding strategy and organization. Peder is Vice President of Platon’s Information Management Advisory division, and before joining Platon he was responsible for building and heading the global BI department at LEGO. He holds a Masters degree in computer science.

Per is a Platon consultant on legal compliance within the area of information Management. He focuses on compliance in unstructured information and privacy issues. Per joined the Platon Group from one of the pioneers in Information Lifecycle Management in 2007. He holds a Masters degree in Law.

René Rasmussen is the global Business Intelligence Director of Coloplast. Before joining Coloplast he worked for Telia for several years both as a Project and Line Manager particularly in the IT area. He holds a MSc from Copenhagen Business School.

Sanne Christiansen has more than 13 years of experience working with project management, advisory, education and methodology development, within the areas of Business Intelligence and Information Management. Sanne is presently an advisory consultant. She is responsible for the establishment of Platon's training courses and she also played a major role in the development of Platon’s methodology (Platon Insight®). Sanne is regularly used as a speaker at Platon and has also spoken on national and international conferences. She holds a Masters degree in business administration and computer science.

Signe Bjarttun Jørgensen is head of the corporate controller group in Avinor. She is the program manager of the IM-initiative, responsible for the development and implementation of the BI-Strategy. This includes alignment of all enterprise BI-projects at Avinor; Enterprise Data Warehouse project, Master Data Management project, and Balanced Scorecard project. Jørgensen received her master degree in 2002 from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Stephen Brobst is the CTO for Teradata. Stephen performed his graduate work in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his Masters and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. Stephen has authored numerous books and articles related to advanced data management techniques. Stephen is one of the highest ranked instructors on the faculty of The Data Warehousing Institute and teaches courses related to Real-Time Data Warehousing and High Performance Data Warehouse Design.

Thomas Thykjær is the project manager of Grundfos’ MDM Project where he leads the global implementation of an MDM strategy, data quality KPI concept and leaders the migration part of Grundfos's Accelerated SAP project. His experience covers projects in Europe, America, and Asia and he has a strong knowledge of MDM and the challenges that global companies are facing in implementing MDM strategies. He has previously given presentations about MDM on conference in Europe and USA. Mr. Thykjær received his B.Sc. in Business Administration & Information Science from Aarhus School of Business.