Keynote & Featured Speakers for Inspire 2013

Featured Speakers at Inspire 2013

Garibaldi to perform at Inspire 2013 in front of Data Artisans and Business Leaders

Bill Franks - Chief Analytics Officer, Teradata

Marshall Jacobowitz - Vice President of Research, Time Warner Cable Media

Marshall Jacobowitz is responsible for overseeing all of the traditional research activities for supporting the company’s advertising business. Mr. Jacobowitz has been in the media business since 1986, starting as a project director at Management Science Associates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since then he has spent time doing research in both the agency and programmer worlds, with stints at LCF&L, Saatchi & Saatchi, Zenith Media and close to a decade at MTV Networks before assuming his current role almost 5 years ago.

Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., serves more than 14 million subscribers in 28 states, and delivers a broad range of video, voice and high-speed data services to residential and commercial customers.

Fred Jezouit - Vice President of Finance & Treasurer, Southern States Cooperative

Ari Kaplan - President, AriBall

Ari Kaplan is a leading figure in sports analytics, having worked with over half of all major league baseball organizations and many global sports media organizations over 23 seasons. In 2011, Sports Illustrated named Ari “Top Ten General Manager Candidates”. He received Caltech’s “Alumni of the Decade” distinction for pioneering groundbreaking sabermetrics used to evaluate pitcher talent. Crain's Chicago Business also recognized Kaplan's work in business, baseball and humanitarian endeavors by including him in their annual "40 Under 40" cover story. In addition to his scouting background, Ari is one of the few long-term baseball leaders who has a proven track record at Fortune 500 companies, as well as successfully running several high-profile organizations as CEO.

Greg Hall - Sr. Service Optimization Leader, Kaiser Permanente

Greg Hall is a Senior Service Optimization Leader with Kaiser Permanente, joining the organization in November of 2009. His current focus is on improving customer and member service and satisfaction while optimizing service delivery costs. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Greg worked for 9 years at GE in process improvement for new product introduction and supply chain management, where he managed a global team. Greg earned an MBA from Brigham Young University and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Ann Dailey - Manager, Kaiser Permanente

Ann Dailey is a sociologist who has worked in both academe and business. While on the faculty at Brown University, she used quantitative techniques to analyze the development of adolescents’ political attitudes. After transitioning to market research for Donnelley Marketing, Ann used household level and block group level data to develop customer profiles and to build predictive models. Her clients included Chevron, Celestron and Macys. As Senior Vice President for Grey Direct West, she realigned sales territories for US West Cellular and developed demographic segmentation models to identify high potential prospects for the Kahala Resort. Ann moved to the client side as Market Research Manager for the Automobile Club of Southern California. Currently, she serves as a California-based health care manager in Kaiser Permanente’s Service Strategy & Process Optimization department, with responsibility for managing a team of data artisans in support of their sales and renewal processes.

Bob Mincarelli - Vice President of Marketing Services Technology, Valassis Communications

Bob Mincarelli has held the position of Vice President, Targeting at Valassis since 2007, and has recently taken on the new role of Vice President of Marketing Services Technology. He is responsible for the implementation of the company’s Marketing Services Technology plan as well as directing the efforts of the experimentation and new development areas known at Valassis as “The Lab”. Bob has been named to Consumer Goods Technology Magazine’s “Top 25 Most Influential Execs” and has a proven track record for designing, developing and implementing best practice processes, techniques and technologies that have helped his organizations, locally and globally, gain competitive advantages.

Jan Kestle - President and Founder, Environics Analytics

Jan Kestle has been a leader in the marketing information industry for more than forty years. An expert in using statistics and mathematics to help solve business challenges, she has worked with hundreds of clients in all industries to help them find and serve their customers. In November 2003, she founded Environics Analytics, establishing a new marketing and analytical services company based in Toronto. She has since directed the initiatives creating the pioneering PRIZM CE, PRIZM C2 and PRIZM QC segmentation systems that combine geodemographics with psychographic Social Values to classify consumers by both their mindset and marketplace behavior. In addition, she oversaw the development of a number of innovative marketing products by EA research and development teams, including ENVISION, WealthScapes, DELTA and HouseholdSpend. Prior to founding EA, Jan was president of Compusearch and spent 19 years at the Ontario Statistical Centre, where she developed an expertise in the Canadian census and its applications in marketing and social research. The recipient of a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics from the University of Western Ontario, she is a frequent speaker to industry groups across North America.

David Rardon - Development Analytics Leader, Yum Brands! (Pizza Hut)

David has a decade of experience performing retail location planning and spatial analysis, with a focus on: site selection, market planning, and development strategy. Prior to joining Pizza Hut / Yum! Brands in 2009, he provided services to numerous retail & restaurant concepts, commercial real estate brokers, and municipal economic development agencies.

David Laberge - Manager of Representation Planning, Ford Motor Company

As Manager of Representation Planning at Ford Motor Company, David works closely with the Ford and Lincoln brands, helping them continuously plan and assess their retail dealership networks. David has been with Ford for 35 years in various Sales and Marketing positions, with the last 17 being in Representation Planning.

Michael Barone - Analyst in the Risk Analytics Department

Michael is an analyst in the Risk Analytics department at Paychex, Inc.  Upon earning his B.A. in Mathematics in 1994, Michael began studying for his Masters and held an adjunct professor position in the Mathematics department at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua, NY.  For the past 17 years, Michael has worked at Paychex, most recently in the Risk Analytics department.  Michael is responsible for gathering, preparing, processing, analyzing, and reporting on various data which is accumulated from many different systems and sources.

Dr. Mike Jacobs, Senior Vice President of Segmentation Solutions, Equifax

IXI produces data and solutions based on direct measured financial and economic data. Dr. Jacobs is responsible for the development and support of several segmentation systems, and has extended these frameworks with innovative advanced features and solutions. He has over 25 years of experience in database marketing, marketing analytics, customer relationship management and marketing consulting, both as a user and supplier. Dr. Jacobs has created and implemented several national segmentation systems in different countries. He has an M.Sc. in statistics, MBA and Ph.D. in business administration, all from the University of Cape Town

Chris Diener, Senior Vice President of Analytics, AbsolutData

Chris Diener is Senior Vice President of Analytics at AbsolutData, a data analytics services provider. Chris has 20 years of experience in advanced analytics and marketing strategy consulting. He leads in the innovation and delivery of predictive analytics solutions based on big and “small” data. As part of his role he heads up the Big Data practice and several analytics centers of excellence at AbsolutData. He is a thought leader in marketing science and data science, and a well-known presenter, author and teacher. He has worked extensively with clients across industries with concentrations in CPG, retail, financial services, hospitality, pharma, healthcare and technology. He has worked with consulting groups such as Bain, BCG and others. Prior to joining AbsolutData, Chris founded an advanced analytics firm which grew until being sold to Omnicom, and has held other senior and executive positions in the industry. He holds PhD, MBA and JD degrees.

Stephen McDaniel, Director of Analytic Product Management at Tableau Software

Stephen McDaniel, Director of Analytic Product Management at Tableau Software is co-author of Rapid Graphs with Tableau, The Accidental Analyst and SAS for Dummies. Stephen is recognized as a world expert at visual analytics and dashboard design and has been on the faculty of the American Marketing Association and The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI).  Stephen has worked at Netflix as Director of Data Mining and Customer Insights, SAS as Director of Development and Loudcloud (now HP) as Manager of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.  Earlier in his career, he was a Biostatistician at companies such as Glaxo SmithKline, Quintiles and Takeda Abbott Pharmaceuticals.

Bruce Johnson, Director, Teradata Partner Business Development

Bruce Johnson is Director, Teradata Partner Business Development, and has been with Teradata (NCR) for 28 years. His tenure at Teradata includes Sales, Sales Management, Sales Support, Marketing, Alliances, Professional Services and Research & Development. Bruce works extensively with Global Leaders providing thought leadership around Data Warehousing and Analytics, bridging industry and technical knowledge to enable clients to use Teradata and partner products/services to increase sales, reduce costs, and improve margins and efficiency. Currently, Bruce supports Retail, Hospitality, Travel, Transportation and Consumer Packaged Goods industry sectors as a Business Development Manager. In this role he assists with development of Teradata industry partnering strategies, collaborates with sales teams and customers in identifying/cultivating new software solutions and systems integration partners. He also shares best practices in business development and productive partnering across all industry sectors in both enterprise and midmarket account-facing organizations.

Cornelius Kaestner – Principal, The Boston Consulting Group

Cornelius Kaestner is a principal in the Washington office of The Boston Consulting Group and a core member of the Consumer and Information Technology practices. He spearheads BCG's work regarding Big Data and advanced analytics in the retail and consumer sectors, focusing on two primary areas: The first is to connect advanced analytical approaches and predictive modeling to specific business challenges, including customer promotional effectiveness and loyalty analytics. The second is to enhance the analytical capabilities of BCG's consulting staff by identifying enabling tools and infrastructure. This approach has fostered distributed innovation through analytics across numerous BCG practice areas. Cornelius received his MBA from IMD, in Lausanne, Switzerland, and was one of four recipients of the President's award. He graduated from Yale University in three years with a BA in economics and a BA in applied math, both awarded with distinction.