Summit speakers
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- Miles Mahoney, Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Channels, SAS
- Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, SAS
- Mikael Hagström, Executive Vice President of SAS Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific
- Andreas C. Diggelmann, Vice President of Solutions, Analytics and Strategy, R&D, SAS
- Allan Russell, SAS Fellow
- Bob Evans, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of InformationWeek and the TechWeb Network
- Scott Isaacs, Vice President of Global Professional Services and Delivery, SAS
August 21 - 22
SAS World Headquarters
Cary, NC
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Miles MahoneyVice President of Strategic Alliances and Channels, SAS
Miles Mahoney heads up the effort to develop and implement a world-class alliance and channel program focused on creating significant Americas revenue for SAS. Under his leadership, SAS will focus on launching its reseller program as it relates to its overall channel strategy. This includes global system integrators, regional system integrators, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), value-added resellers (VARs), distributors, outsourcers and offshore development and service providers for the United States, Latin America and Canada. The channel will successfully sell and deliver business intelligence, analytics, data integration and financial intelligence in an unprecedented manner by focusing on the small and medium-size business marketplace.
Mahoney has considerable experience in implementing major strategic change programs that focus on integration and field alignment with channels and alliances, including OEMs, VARs, independent software vendors (ISVs) and the developer community, both in the Americas and internationally. Most recently at Borland Software and Crystal Decisions/Business Objects, Mahoney developed global alliances programs, go-to-market strategies and operational goals to increase revenue. He also implemented and globalized offshore development centers in Bangalore and Mumbai. He also worked with SAP, where he led its newly launched CRM alliances organization. Prior to SAP, Mahoney was Vice President of Sales for Day Corp., where he led the sales, services and support functions.
Mahoney holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Montana and an MBA in business strategy from the Graziadio School of Business at Pepperdine University.
Jim Davis
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Jim Davis is responsible for providing strategic direction for SAS products, solutions and services and for presenting the SAS brand worldwide. Additionally, he oversees a number of operational units including Publications, Education, SAS OnDemand hosting, and Alliances and Channels.
Guiding the company's focus to be customer driven, Davis helped lead the transformation of SAS from a tools provider to the software solutions provider it is today. He has done so by building industry-specific expertise into SAS' product management and product marketing teams, which research the marketplace and partner with R&D to hone customized solutions for each industry. He has overseen a dramatic increase in SAS' profile.
Also known for his industry leadership, Davis helped develop the Information Evolution Model and co-authored Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow your Business. By outlining how information is managed and utilized as a corporate asset, the model enables organizations to evaluate their management of information objectively, providing a framework for making improvements necessary to compete in today's global arena.
With a degree in computer science from North Carolina State University, Davis began his career as a software developer, providing systems for large newspaper publishers. He went on to manage software development and information technology for a large publishing organization in the southeastern U.S., and then to assume the general manager role for a regional business magazine in Charlotte, North Carolina. He then returned to technology leadership, directing IT operations for a global engineering society based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Davis joined SAS in 1994 as an enterprise computing strategist focused on IT issues. He later served as a program manager for data warehousing, one of SAS' first global projects to incorporate customer feedback in the development process. It was in this role that he began to develop the model for continuous communication among engineers, marketing experts and customers that he champions today. From there he was promoted to Director of Product Strategy and then Vice President of Worldwide Marketing before assuming his current role.
Mikael Hagström
Executive Vice President of SAS Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific
Mikael Hagström is the executive vice president of Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific for SAS, the leader in business intelligence software and services. Hagström is responsible for delivering revenue and managing operations in more than 50 countries with individual P&L (profit and loss) centers and nearly 4,000 employees.
An 18-year SAS veteran, Hagström has been responsible for most of the sales and operations for EMEA since he was named Vice President of EMEA Sales in January 2005. His experience in growing business in emerging markets and identifying strong leadership to run the local operations has contributed to the consistent strong growth of the region.
From 1998 to 2000, as Country Manager of SAS Norway, Hagström restructured the office and led SAS Norway to record growth, doubling new sales each year for three years. Over the next few years, additional geographies and P&Ls were consistently added to his growing level of responsibilities. Hagström, who joined SAS Sweden in 1989, moved to the company’s European headquarters in Heidelberg in 1993 where he was the head of sales support. He currently works at SAS' worldwide headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
Hagström is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) Executive Council. He is a board member or head officer of 17 SAS subsidiaries, including SAS Software Limited, UK; SAS Institute Computer Software S.A., Greece; SAS Institute Sp. z.o.o., Poland; SAS Institute GmbH, Germany; and SAS Institute A/S, Denmark. He holds a Master of Science degree in industrial automation engineering and administration.
Andreas C. Diggelmann
Vice President of Solutions, Analytics and Strategy, R&D
As Vice President of Research and Development, Solutions and Analytics for SAS, Andy Diggelmann is responsible for managing the global development and support of all of SAS' analytical products and solutions. Diggelmann's team focuses on delivering solutions that are tightly aligned with customer needs and market demand. He is also instrumental in directing the company’s R&D center in Pune, India -- SAS’ largest R&D office outside of the United States.
Diggelmann, with SAS since 1994, has extensive experience with SAS’ full range of technology and solutions. For five years (2000-2005) Andy was responsible for product management and strategy for SAS' entire portfolio. Before joining SAS, he worked as a consultant, designing and implementing decision support solutions and data warehousing systems for government entities, as well as for the financial and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to this, Diggelmann used analytical tools and expertise to conduct academic research in such areas as computational linguistics, mass communications, social psychology and history.
Allan Russell
SAS Fellow
Allan Russell, Senior Vice President of Strategy, was selected in 2007 by SAS CEO Jim Goodnight to be a SAS Fellow, researching and reporting on emerging trends in the software industry. A company veteran for more than a quarter century, Russell contributes to the long-term growth of SAS by working with technology innovators among our customers and in the industry.
Russell's research currently focuses on the uses of BI in a "process-centric" world and examines areas such as business process management, business activity monitoring, SAS workflow tools and integration between SAS and process platforms.
Russell is also one of the principal authors of Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow your Business, published in 2006. The book describes how organizations mature in their uses of information and presents a model that enables organizations to evaluate their use of information objectively, providing a framework to manage and use data as a corporate asset and compete in today's global arena.
Russell joined SAS in 1980 to help build SAS' nascent European operation, where he played a critical role in establishing SAS' presence in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Asia Pacific. As Senior Vice President of Strategy with SAS International, he worked closely with development teams in SAS' world headquarters in Cary, NC (US) to ensure that SAS software meets and anticipates the needs of SAS' international customers. He also directed European software development projects, gaining extensive knowledge of the business applications of SAS from talking, and listening to, SAS customers.
Over the years, in addition to being a high-tech thought leader, Russell has been principal author of SAS' intelligence platform, an open and scalable architecture that allows for rapid development of end-to-end intelligence systems.
Russell graduated in computing science from Glasgow University in 1975.
Bob Evans
Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of InformationWeek and the TechWeb Network
Scott Isaacs
Vice President of Global Professional Services and Delivery, SAS