Informatica Data Services

David Lyle is VP of Product Strategy at Informatica. During the early to mid-90's, David worked as a data warehousing consultant on numerous enterprise-scale, massively parallel warehouse projects. From this experience, he helped found and grow Influence Software from 1996 to 1999 as a pioneering company in the development of packaged Analytic Applications. After Influence was purchased by Informatica in 1999, David's ideas and leadership following his role as VP of R&D for the Informatica Applications led to the development of Informatica’s innovative cross-vendor metadata lineage capabilities and other patented technologies. In 2005, David co-authored the book “Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology” with John Schmidt, describing how large companies can create and grow “centers of excellence” for integration to reduce project risk, speed development and change cycles, and cut integration costs and improve integration quality. His current areas of focus include SOA, Data Services, user experience for enterprise software, and data governance.

Wei Zheng is the Principal Product Manager responsible for Informatica's products and offerings around real-time data integration and data services. Prior to joining Informatica, Wei was the co-founder and CTO of Blazent - an enterprise software start-up focused around operational and BI reporting for enterprise IT assets.

Ashutosh Kulkarni is the Director of Product Management and Marketing for Informatica, focusing on real-time data integration and data services. Since joining Informatica, Ashutosh (Ash) has been championing Informatica’s growth in evolving markets such as operational data integration and SOA. Prior to joining Informatica, Ash worked at Sun Microsystems for 9 years where he held several roles in product management, product marketing, and alliances. At Sun, Ash was responsible for leading Sun’s strategy in the area of SOA and business integration. He was a core member of the team responsible for the Java Business Integration (JBI) initiative, and for managing Sun’s application integration product line.

Kiran Mehta is Director of R&D at Informatica, where he oversees development of the next generation data services platform to support data quality, complex data exchange and on-demand data integration solutions. He has over fifteen years of experience in emerging Information Management technologies. Prior to Informatica, Kiran held various strategic and technical management roles at IBM Research and Software Group and RedBrick Systems. Kiran has extensive experience in the database field - championed the productization of the DataLinks technology into DB2 UDB, technical delivery of performance critical locking, logging, transaction management and recovery components of DB2 UDB at IBM Canada's Software Development Laboratory and at RedBrick Systems (now a part of IBM).

Ash Parikh is responsible for driving Informatica's product strategy around real-time data integration and SOA. Ash has over 17 years of industry experience in driving product innovation and strategy at technology leaders such as Raining Data, Iopsis Software, BEA, Sun and PeopleSoft. Ash is a well-published industry expert in the field of SOA and distributed computing and is a regular presenter at leading industry technology events like XMLConference, OASIS Symposium, Delphi, AJAXWorld, and JavaOne. He has authored several technical articles in leading journals including DMReview, AlignJournal, XML Journal, JavaWorld, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, and ADT Magazine. He is the co-chair of the SDForum Web services SIG.

James Markarian has spent 8 years at Informatica trying to accomplish an important goal: creating the world's finest platform for moving, manipulating and improving data. As CTO, James has helped the Informatica products evolve from their humble roots in RDBMS-centric data warehousing to their present status as modern day data Swiss-army knives in an effort to keep pace with the needs of our discriminating customers and partners. From hundreds of conversations with customers to writing dozens of articles and speaking at numerous engagements, he has heard of, written and talked about and occasionally thought privately to himself concerning enterprise-class data problems. Prior to joining Informatica, James spent 10 years at Oracle