DJ Penix
President and Founder, Pinnacle Solutions Inc.
2021 SASGF Hackathon – Category finalists and Multiple Award Winner
DJ Penix is the President and founder of Pinnacle Solutions Inc., a SAS Resell Partner and a SAS Gold Partner. Founded in 1996, Pinnacle Solutions has been building prominent analytic, reporting, and data management solutions for 25 years in various industries including manufacturing, pharmaceutical, health & life sciences, insurance, hospitality & entertainment, financial, retail, education, and government. Back in 2014, DJ led the company’s efforts to expand the business and to provide cloud enabled solutions. A formalized partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure augmented the already long standing partnership with SAS, one of the most prominent advanced analytic and reporting platforms since the late 1970s. Today, DJ has expanded the business to provide a wide range of leading edge cloud analytic services which include IoT, Forecasting, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. DJ graduated from Kalamazoo College with a B.S. in both Mathematics and Computer Science.