Informatica Data Quality

Tom Golden, Director Product Marketing Informatica Data Quality Business Unit, came to Informatica with the acquisition of Similarity Systems in January 2006, where he was VP of marketing. He has 20 years experience in the technology sector as a journalist, commentator and marketing executive. At Informatica Tom is responsible for planning the company’s data quality related marketing efforts as it expands its global customer base.

Before taking up his position with Similarity Systems Tom was in independent marketing consultant. He has also worked as head of marketing at Prediction Dynamics and vice president of marketing at Iona Technologies and Kainos Software – organizations which focused on data analysis, web services and customer relationship management respectively. Tom’s initial experience was gained as a technology correspondent and editor for a number of news agencies, magazines and newspapers in Europe, the US and Australia.

A thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy – Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D. is a popular and dynamic speaker and internationally recognized expert on analytical CRM, business intelligence, and the infrastructure to support these initiatives – the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five highly-regarded and popular books on these subjects and writes monthly columns (totaling more than 60) for technical and business magazines. She has an expert channel, a monthly newsletter, and a popular blog on the B-EYE-Network.com web site. She has served on the Board of Advisors for DAMA International and was chosen by the DAMA organizations to receive the 1999 and 2005 Individual Achievement Awards. She is an advisor for and Fellow of The Data Warehousing Institute and serves as an advisor for several technology and commercial companies.

Chris Cingrani is a Principal Consultant with Informatica Professional Services. Chris has over six years of experience helping customers with the business and technical challenges and opportunities of planning and implementing data quality initiatives within an enterprise environment. Prior to joining Informatica in 2006, Chris served in several sales and consultative roles at Firstlogic/Business Objects.

Prior to his experience in the data quality arena, Chris worked in a technical capacity at Ernst & Young LLP on technologies including Java, Visual Basic and multiple databases, as well as in sales roles at CDW and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Chris has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication from Drake University and an MBA from Regis University.

Neil Gow is based in Sydney, Australia and is one of Informatica’s senior solution consultants specializing in data quality. Neil is a highly experienced data management practitioner with over 15 years IT experience, including six years with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he was a lead data management consultant.

In his time at the coalface of the data management business Neil has seen how poor data quality can upset the best laid plans of all types of organization. Much of his work in recent years has involved developing methodologies, and applying technology and business process solutions to organizations to solve their data quality problems. His other speciality is data migration which any practitioner will tell you is as much about data quality as anything else. Neil has worked on a significant number of high profile and complex migration projects around the world, including in the UK, South Africa, Europe and Australia.

Despite his many years in senior roles, Neil retains a "hands-on" technical proficiency and has no fear of getting his hands dirty by diving into IT infrastructures, database platforms, structures and tools. He also has a thorough understanding of both the strengths and limitations of many internationally recognised project and risk management methodologies such as Prince, GDPM, SSADM and Ascendant.

Ivan Chong is currently General Manager for Informatica's Data Quality Business Unit. He has also headed up Informatica's Product Marketing as well as worked in the Corporate Strategy group doing business development. For much of his career at Informatica, Ivan served as Vice President of Product Management. Mr. Chong is also a 6-year veteran of Oracle Corporation, where he held various product management positions for the Oracle Tools division and was awarded a patent in the area of database visualization. His experience also includes two years with internet advertising startup, NetGravity, a company that developed mission critical server products for high traffic commercial web sites. Mr. Chong has spoken at numerous user conferences both in the US and internationally. He graduated with undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Garry Moroney is a leading business process and data quality expert. As founder and Chief Executive Officer of Similarity Systems, he led the company from its establishment to its acquisition by Informatica in January 2006. Immediately prior to establishing Similarity Systems, he worked as management consultant with McKinsey & Company in London, England. During his time with McKinsey much of Garry's focus was on the development of IT strategies for large organizations. In this role he gained first hand experience of the scale and impact of data quality problems within large organizations. Prior to that he was responsible for managing large international projects for the world’s largest oilfield services provider, Schlumberger Ltd.

As Vice President for Data Quality, Chris McCauley is responsible for the strategy behind and delivery of Informatica's data quality products.

Previously the Chief Technology Officer at Similarity Systems, he led the development team and drove the vision for the product that is now Informatica Data Quality. Chris is proud to have contributed personally to the codebase. [Read more]

Guest blogger Larry P. English, president and principal of Information Impact International, Inc., is an internationally recognized speaker, teacher, consultant, and author in information and knowledge management, and information quality improvement. He has provided consulting and education in more than 30 countries on five continents. Larry was featured as one of the "21 Voices for the 21st Century" in Quality Progress. DAMA awarded him the 1998 “Individual Achievement Award” for his contributions to the field of information resource management. He has chaired 19 Information Quality Conferences in the US and Europe and is a co-founder of the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ).
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Welcome to the Informatica Data Quality Blog. Our objective is to provide you with a community to interact with industry experts on data quality topics and experiences. Our bloggers include Larry P. English, President and Principal of Information Impact International; Garry Moroney, General Manager, Data Quality Division, Informatica; and Chris McCauley, Vice President Data Quality, Informatica.

We look forward to your participation.