Ravi Shankar is Senior Director, MDM Product Marketing, Informatica. Shankar is responsible for product and technical marketing activities for master data management (MDM) as part of the Data Quality business unit at Informatica. Shankar joined Informatica following the Siperian acquisition, where he ran product marketing. He helped position the company as a proven leader in multidomain MDM.
With over 20 years of leadership experience, Shankar has directed product marketing, product management, and business development efforts at enterprise software leaders such as Oracle.
Shankar holds a BS (Honors) and an MS in Computer Science, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Ravi is a published author and a frequent speaker on MDM and data governance.
Dr. Walid el Abed is the founder and CEO of Global Data Excellence. He is a globally renowned expert and visionary in the fields of Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Conversion, Metadata and Master Data Management.
For more than 10 years, Walid has defined and implemented data strategies within global organizations through data quality and data Governance implementations to achieve business process improvements. His frameworks and methodologies are unique, delivering tangible value from high quality data.
He is also a recognized international speaker and delivers training, seminars and conferences on Data Excellence from vision to value generation. Prior to founding Global Data Excellence, Walid was Business Excellence Manager at Nestlé headquarters, based in Switzerland.
Adam Wilson is the General Manager for Informatica's Information Lifecycle Management Business Unit. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Wilson was in charge of product definition and go-to-market strategy for Informatica's award-winning enterprise data integration platform. A long time employee of Informatica, Mr. Wilson has held numerous development, product management, and marketing leadership roles within the company. He was in charge of business intelligence products from 2000-2004, established the R&D program management organization between 2004-2006, and took over data integration product management and marketing responsibilities in 2006.
Throughout his career, Mr. Wilson has focused on delivering innovative products that help organizations gain competitive advantage by increasing information agility. Before joining Informatica, he co-founded and served as COO of Zimba, a developer of mobile applications that provided integrated, real-time access to corporate, personal, and business partner information. Zimba was sold to Informatica in August of 2000. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wilson worked at Accenture in their financial services practice. Mr. Wilson holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an engineering degree from Northwestern University.
Kerrin is the field marketing manager responsible for public sector marketing.
Kerrin joined Informatica with the acquisition of Agent Logic, where he wore many different marketing hats: product marketing for the company's Complex Event Processing products, corporate marketing/branding, and web marketing/SEO/SEM.
Cheri is responsible for leading product and customer marketing initiatives for Informatica’s Data Migration Solution. Cheri has worked for most of her 20+ year career as a data integration professional, delivering solutions that include data migration, data quality, single view of customer, data warehousing, and database applications. Prior to joining Informatica, Cheri was the Data Integration Solutions Manager at SAP Business Objects, where she defined solutions and actively worked on client engagements. At Business Objects she was a leader on the team that developed the SAP Data Migration Solution. She was a Strategic Consultant for FirstLogic, prior to their acquisition by Business Objects. Prior to her work at FirstLogic Cheri was the Manager of Data Quality and Data Architecture at DishNetwork.
Donal Dunne is the product marketing manager responsible for messaging and product positioning for Informatica Data Quality and has been with Informatica since 2003.
Donal started in the IT industry as a computer programmer over 25 years ago. Since then he has worked with a diverse range of hardware and software systems and has seen a lot of change in the IT landscape over this period … remember 8inch floppy disks? Having served in diverse roles from programmer, trainer, sales, marketing and project management, Donal has a broad experience of the challenges faced by companies implementing software applications.
Yi Xu is the product marketing manager responsible for communicating market strategy and product positioning for Informatica Identity Resolution.
Yi has been with Informatica since 2004 and contributes a deep understanding of data management issues and solutions. She has a unique, cross-functional understanding of Informatica products, having served in diverse roles from marketing operations to product management. Prior to Informatica, Yi worked in the consulting industry implementing Siebel projects.
Yi received her bachelors degree in Economics and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently pursuing her MBA at Santa Clara University.
Ramesh Menon is a Senior Director of Product Management at Informatica and currently focuses on evangelizing Data Quality and Identity Resolution technology. He advises organizations on implementing and managing enterprise-wide data quality.
Prior to Informatica, Ramesh was responsible for the Americas operations of Identity Systems (acquired by Informatica in May 2008). He has over 17 years of experience in data quality and identity resolution, including various roles in product management, strategy and marketing.
Destein has spent his career focusing on data access, data integration, and data management. In presales, product management, and product marketing roles at Borland, Active Software, webMethods, and Siperian, he has learned the best practices and applies them to achieve business value.
At Informatica, he is focused on helping organizations utilize the Informatica data integration and data quality platform to deliver on the promise of master data management.
Don Nanneman leads the Marketing effort for Informatica's On Demand Business Unit, developing and executing Informatica’s global SaaS marketing strategy. Prior to joining Informatica he drove marketing strategy at Voxify, a leading SaaS call center automation pioneer, as VP Marketing creating 300% year over-year-revenue increases and securing market leadership recognition from leading analysts firms.
Prior to Voxify, Mr. Nanneman served as VP of Marketing at Savvion, a leading BPM provider, a Group Marketing Manager at Octel Communications and held senior marketing positions at Apple Computer. Mr. Nanneman is a graduate of the Executive Education Program at UC Berkeley, and received a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the U.S. Navy Electronic Warfare Training Center.
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Ravi Shankar is Senior Director, MDM Product Marketing, Informatica. Shankar is responsible for product and technical marketing activities for master data management (MDM) as part of the Data Quality business unit at Informatica. Shankar joined Informatica following the Siperian acquisition, where he ran product marketing. He helped position the company as a proven leader in multidomain MDM.
Dr. Walid el Abed is the founder and CEO of 
Adam Wilson is the General Manager for Informatica's Information Lifecycle Management Business Unit. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Wilson was in charge of product definition and go-to-market strategy for Informatica's award-winning enterprise data integration platform. A long time employee of Informatica, Mr. Wilson has held numerous development, product management, and marketing leadership roles within the company. He was in charge of business intelligence products from 2000-2004, established the R&D program management organization between 2004-2006, and took over data integration product management and marketing responsibilities in 2006.
Kerrin is the field marketing manager responsible for public sector marketing.
Cheri is responsible for leading product and customer marketing initiatives for Informatica’s Data Migration Solution. Cheri has worked for most of her 20+ year career as a data integration professional, delivering solutions that include data migration, data quality, single view of customer, data warehousing, and database applications. Prior to joining Informatica, Cheri was the Data Integration Solutions Manager at SAP Business Objects, where she defined solutions and actively worked on client engagements. At Business Objects she was a leader on the team that developed the SAP Data Migration Solution. She was a Strategic Consultant for FirstLogic, prior to their acquisition by Business Objects. Prior to her work at FirstLogic Cheri was the Manager of Data Quality and Data Architecture at DishNetwork.
Donal Dunne is the product marketing manager responsible for messaging and product positioning for Informatica Data Quality and has been with Informatica since 2003.
Yi Xu is the product marketing manager responsible for communicating market strategy and product positioning for Informatica Identity Resolution.
Ramesh Menon is a Senior Director of Product Management at Informatica and currently focuses on evangelizing Data Quality and Identity Resolution technology. He advises organizations on implementing and managing enterprise-wide data quality.
Don Nanneman leads the Marketing effort for Informatica's On Demand Business Unit, developing and executing Informatica’s global SaaS marketing strategy. Prior to joining Informatica he drove marketing strategy at Voxify, a leading SaaS call center automation pioneer, as VP Marketing creating 300% year over-year-revenue increases and securing market leadership recognition from leading analysts firms.
