Speakers

Brad Hathaway
Regional Head of Data Management, SAS


Brad Hathaway guides SAS’s Central Eastern Europe region for the Data Management initiative including Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Federation and Event Stream Processing. With a 25 year background in consulting, sales and technical presales, he brings a complete picture to the table for SAS customers addressing Data Management topics for a variety of business needs such as Data Protection, Risk Management, Regulatory reporting, Customer retention and Marketing campaigns. He is currently fascinated with Data Governance and the application of real-time streaming technologies to our customers systems and data.
Brad holds a B.S. in Information Systems with a Computer Science concentration from Carnegie Mellon University and is an avid basketball player and mountain biker.
Twitter: @BradDataMgmt

Zuzana Kohútová
Legal Counsel for CEE region, SAS Czech Republic


Zuzana Kohútová works as an in-house Legal Counsel for CEE region and is based at SAS' Prague office. Among another, her tasks include supporting internal compliance with rules on personal data protection under the local laws. Zuzana has a deep interest in topics on the border between law and technology and enjoys sharing interdisciplinary know–how. Before joining SAS, she practiced law at an international law firm where she took part in advising multinational companies providing telecommunication, cloud computing, data analytics and IoT services, focusing on regulatory and contractual issues relating to protection of personal data and privacy.

Arturo Salazar
Business Analitics Presales Consultant, SAS France


Arturo has been breathing data for years. He has strong experience driving Data Management initiatives, in various industries and international contexts. He is one of the responsible for SAS Data Management activities in EMEA

In the most recent years Arturo has been supporting customers in the road to compliance towards European regulations (GDPR, BCBS239, IDMP…), leveraging his field experiences and his knowledge in new data technologies. He is able to deliver tailored quick start approaches for customers in order to tackle in an effective way those projects.

Arturo also has a very strong consulting background and he is key in developing consultative selling strategy through Data Governance workshops and advisory services.

Dorian Hodorogea
Advanced Analytics Consultant, SAS Romania


Dorian Hodorogea is working for SAS out of Romania, supporting the Advanced Analytics initiatives and helping customers get information out of their data. With an extensive experience in predictive analytics, reporting, visualization and data analytics, he can bring valuable knowledge on why data matters.
Dorian holds a M.S. in Information Management and Data Protection and has worked in the Information Management and Data Mining straight out of University.