Thomas H. Davenport
Best-selling author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and President's Distinguished Professor at Babson College

Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and co-directs research for the Business Analytics research program at nGenera (formerly BSG Concours). He is the former director of research centers at Accenture, Ernst & Young, and McKinsey, and has taught at Harvard Business School, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and the University of Texas at Austin.

Davenport is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and other leading journals. His article "Competing on Analytics" was Harvard Business Review’s most requested article reprint of 2006. Davenport is the author or co-author of 12 books. Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning has become a best-seller and has been translated into 10 languages. His latest book, Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results, is due out later this year.

Malcolm Gladwell
Best-selling author of Outliers: The Story of Success, Blink and The Tipping Point.

Author Malcolm Gladwell has an incomparable gift for interpreting new ideas in the social sciences and making them understandable, practical and valuable to business and general audiences alike. In Gladwell’s most recent book, Outliers: The Story of Success, he suggests an exciting new approach to helping people succeed by using the factors that really foster success. Outliers debuted as a No. 1 best-seller for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Publisher’s Weekly.

Gladwell also is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and has authored two previous bestsellers, The Tipping Point and Blink.

Jim Goodnight
CEO
SAS

Since he co-founded SAS in 1976, Jim Goodnight has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. A worldwide leader in enterprise intelligence solutions and services, SAS has more than 11,000 employees in 53 countries. In 2008, the company’s 33rd consecutive year of growth and profitability, its revenue was $2.26 billion.

In 2004, Harvard Business School named Goodnight as one of the "20th Century’s Great American Business Leaders," citing his impact on "the way people have lived, worked and interacted in the 20th century."

Goodnight has a PhD in statistics and speaks internationally on leadership, education and innovation.

David Hale
Global economic advisor to FORTUNE 500^® companies

David Hale is a Chicago-based global economist whose clients include investment management firms, major hedge funds, and multinational companies. He is the founding chairman of David Hale Global Economics and China Online which provides daily business news on China. Hale serves as the Global Economic Advisor to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

He formerly worked as chief economist for Kemper Financial Services from 1977 to 1995 and Zurich Financial Services which he joined as chief economist when it purchased Kemper in 1995. He advised the group’s fund management and insurance operations on the economic outlook and a wide range of public policy issues until 2002, when he founded Hale Advisers.

Gerard Lyons, PhD
Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research
Standard Chartered

Gerard Lyons is an expert on the world economy, international financial system, macroeconomic policy and global markets in his role at Standard Chartered. He is also an Economic Advisor to the Board and is a member of the bank’s Executive Forum.

Lyons has 20 years of experience in senior roles with some of the world's leading financial institutions and as a highly regarded city and international economist with an excellent forecasting record. Previous positions include Chief Economist at DKB International and consultant to the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Chief UK Economist at Swiss Bank Corporation, and beginning his career with Chase Manhattan. He holds a PhD from the University of London.

Thornton May
Futurist, Executive Director and Dean of the IT Leadership Academy

May’s extensive experience researching and consulting on the roles and behaviors of boards of directors and C-level executives in creating value with information technology has won him an unquestioned place on the short list of serious thinkers on this topic. He combines a scholar's patience for empirical research, a stand-up comic's capacity for pattern recognition and a second-to-none gift for storytelling about the information technology management problems facing executives.

May is a columnist at Computerworld and CIO Decisions and has served as an advisor to the founding editors of Fast Company magazine. His latest book, The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics, is due out later this year.

Geoffrey Moore
Managing Director, TCG Advisors
Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Geoffrey Moore is a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges, an expert in market development and business investment strategies, and a best-selling author. In addition to his roles with TCG Advisors and Mohr Davidow Ventures, he is the founder of the Chasm Group.

Moore’s books, including Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado and Living on the Fault Line, are required reading at leading business schools.

He holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Stanford University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Washington.

Barbara Pindar
Senior Vice President, Planning and Allocation
Aeropostale, Inc.

Barbara Pindar has served as Senior Vice President, Planning and Allocation since December 2005. Previously, she held the position of Senior Vice President, Inventory Management for the Pottery Barn brands division of Williams-Sonoma. From 1986 to 2002, Pindar held various senior executive positions for Limited Brands Inc. Most recently, Pindar served as Vice President, Merchandise Planning and Analysis for Victoria’s Secret Direct.

Joseph Quinlan
Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist
Bank of America Global Wealth and Investment Management

Joseph Quinlan oversees the development and implementation of investment strategies and solutions for Bank of America's global wealth and investment management channels. In this role, he is in charge of developing, communicating and executing the firm’s overall investment strategy. His research is frequently cited in Barron’s, The New York Times and the Financial Times.

Martha Rogers, PhD
Co-founder and Principal
Peppers & Rogers Group

Recognized for well over a decade as one of the leading authorities on customer-focused relationship management strategies, Rogers is an acclaimed author, business strategist, and a founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, the world’s premier customer-centered consultancy.

Business 2.0 magazine named her one of the 19 "most important business gurus" of the past century. The World Technology Network cited her as "an innovator most likely to create visionary 'ripple effects'." Rogers' counsel and insight are regularly sought by FORTUNE 500 and blue chip executives. Her experience in documenting customer value and her expertise in applying "out-of-the-box" thinking make her equally popular among the global media, engagement planners, event organizers, as well as corporate and association leaders who are eager to learn more about customer-centric concepts and methodologies.

Eric Webster
Vice President of Marketing
State Farm Insurance

Webster joined State Farm in July 2000 as Assistant Vice President, Customer Insights, Marketing. He was promoted to his current position in April 2007. Before coming to State Farm, he was vice president of FCB Direct in Chicago, and previously was senior database marketing manager for IBM, responsible for marketing analytics for IBM worldwide.

Webster received a bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation and his Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designation in 2006.

Jim Davis
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
SAS

As Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Jim Davis provides worldwide marketing direction for SAS^® solutions and services. He is responsible for managing product direction, professional services, education, advertising and communications.

A respected thought leader, Davis co-authored the book Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow Your Business.

Since joining SAS in 1994, Davis has pioneered many key initiatives, including global projects that incorporate customer feedback in the development process. Today, he continues to refine the model for continuous collaboration and innovation among engineers, marketers and customers, enabling SAS to meet the global demand for enterprise intelligence.

Keith Collins
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
SAS

Keith Collins, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at SAS, is responsible for driving corporate technology strategy through a focus on customer- and partner-facing activities. Collins fosters close working relationships with marketing and sales to ensure that SAS technologies are aligned with customer needs and market demand. He has been instrumental in leading SAS' evolution as a provider of industry-specific solutions that deliver the benefits of powerful analytic technologies into the hands of users.

Collins led the effort to develop the company's breakthrough SAS Business Analytics Framework that is redefining business intelligence as it is known today. He is responsible for the daily operations of Research & Development and he oversees Information Services and Technical Support.