Informatica Perspectives

Peter Ku is Director of Product Marketing with Informatica. He is responsible for driving informatica’s strategy, messaging, and positioning for Data Governance and Integration Competency Centers. Mr. Ku has over 15 years of product marketing and management experience with data integration, data warehousing, business intelligence, SOA, and data quality solutions with Ellie Mae, Dorado, Iteration Software (acquired by PeopleSoft), Sagent (acquired by Pitney Bowes), Visa International, and Providian Bancorp.

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.

Mr. Boorman, Informatica Chief Marketing Officer, is responsible for Informatica's global voice to the market which includes corporate, partner, and field marketing. He joined Informatica with over 20 years of international marketing leadership experience at enterprise software category leaders including SDL, salesforce.com, VERITAS and Oracle. Most recently, Boorman was Chief Marketing Officer at SDL, a leading Global Information Management enterprise software vendor offering language translation technology and services. Prior to joining SDL, Boorman was vice president for EMEA marketing at salesforce.com, the worldwide leader in on-demand Customer Relationship Management services. Before salesforce.com, Boorman led EMEA marketing for nearly a decade at the leading enterprise software vendor, VERITAS. He also held various positions in Consulting, Pre-Sales Support and Product Marketing during his 10-year tenure at Oracle. Additionally, Boorman was a founding board member of the European Storage Networking Industry Association as well as a board member of the Fibre Channel Industry. Boorman attended Southampton University in the UK earning a Doctorate in Magnetism and Engineering, a Masters Degree in Cryogenics and Applications and a First Class Honors Bachelors degree in Physics.

Ms. Ko is Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Informatica, and an expert on the topics of enterprise data integration, data governance and integration competency centers. She leads the team responsible for defining, managing and marketing Informatica’s analyst-focused data integration products. Her team is also responsible for driving solutions for GRC (governance, risk management and compliance), data warehousing, master data management and data migration. Previously, she was responsible for Informatica’s financial services industry marketing initiative.

Prior to joining Informatica, Ms. Ko was Director of Financial Services Solutions Marketing at BEA Systems. At BEA, she drove the multi-channel delivery solution initiative for banking. Ms. Ko also spent time at Calico Commerce, and at Mercer Management Consulting. Ms. Ko holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and management systems from Princeton University and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

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.

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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.

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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.

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).

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.

Guest blogger Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets.

In partnership with Unisphere Research, he prepares and publishes ongoing research on topics ranging from business intelligence to data security for leading user groups, including Oracle Applications Users Group, Independent Oracle Users Group, International DB2 Users Group, Professional Association for SQL Server, and SHARE. He also is a regular columnist for Database Trends & Applications. His popular Weblogs on Service Oriented Architecture can be found at ZDNet and ebizQ. Joe also speaks frequently on enterprise data management, SOA, and Enteprise 2.0 topics at industry events and Webcasts.

In a previous life, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields.