Oracle Business Analytics Summit 2015

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Customer & Partner Speakers

Track Hosts

Keynote Speakers
	Andrew Strauss Former England Test Cricket Captain Former England Test Cricket Captain Andrew Strauss was one of only 3 England Captains ever to successfully lead England to Ashes victories home and away. Now retired from his beloved sport, he has become a star on the speaking circuit, specialising in change, leadership and success. Andrew scored over 7,000 Test runs and played 100 Tests, captaining England in 50 Tests and leading England to number 1 position in the World. In addition as player and captain of the One Day team, he made over 100 ODI appearances. Other achievements saw him nominated for 'BBC Sports Personality of the Year' twice and being granted the 'Freedom of the City of London'.

	Paul O’Riordan Vice President of Business Analytics for UK & Ireland, Oracle Paul O’Riordan has been with Oracle for eleven years and has been the Country Leader for Ireland since 2006. He has held a variety of leadership roles during this time including Head of Consulting, Technology Sales Director, Head of Middleware for UKI and most recently he has been appointed to lead Oracle’s Business Analytics Business for the UK, Ireland and Israel. Paul is an Electronic Engineering graduate of UCD, he has previously held Senior Management roles in Accenture, Pernod Ricard Irish Distillers and Horizon Technology Group (since acquired by Avnet). He is also a past Chairman of ICT Ireland.

	Rich Clayton Vice President, Business Analytics, Product Marketing, Oracle Rich Clayton is Vice President of Business Analytics Product Group and is responsible driving global adoption of Oracle’s Business Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management solutions. He has a passion for helping companies transform their operations with analytics and driving change in financial management processes. Rich is continuously researching industry trends, interacting with customers and partners, and presenting at finance forums, big data events and analytic symposiums around the world on Oracle’s strategy and the future of analytics. Prior to joining Oracle, he was vice president of product strategy for Hyperion where he we was responsible for go-to-market planning, product positioning, market strategy, pricing and sales enablement. Rich has held several executive marketing positions for venture backed cloud startups. Before joining the technology industry, Rich held various corporate finance roles and was a public auditor with McGladery in Chicago. Rich earned his bachelor's degree in accounting from Loras College.

	Paul Rodwick Vice President, Business Analytics, Product Management, Oracle Paul Rodwick is the vice president of product management, Oracle Business Intelligence, and is responsible for product strategy and delivery for the Oracle BI products, including BI tools and infrastructure, prebuilt analytic applications, and predictive analytics technology. Paul came to Oracle through the Siebel acquisition with over twenty years of diverse marketing, product development, and business leadership. Prior to Oracle he was at data warehousing, business intelligence, and customer analytics leaders and innovators, including Siebel Systems, E.piphany, Red Brick Systems, and Metaphor.

Customer & Partner Speakers
	Adam Bettinson Manager, Global Commercial Systems, Colorcon Colorcon is a world leader in the development, supply and technical support of formulated film coating systems, modified release technologies, and functional excipients for the pharmaceutical and nutritional industries. Our best-in-class products and technologies are complemented by our value-added services, which support all phases of solid oral dose design and development. Adam is responsible for the management of Colorcon's global commercial systems, their associated business processes and ensuring systems are maintained and developed to meet corporate strategic objectives. More recently Adam has focused on ensuring the adoption of Business Intelligence across Colorcon and the associated behavior change that has been required to ensure success. He has worked for Colorcon for 10 years having graduated from Imperial College, London.

	Andrew Blake-Herbert Group Director Finance and Commerce, London Borough of Havering Andrew joined local government straight from University as a Trainee Accountant at Hertfordshire County Council, where he held a number of roles across the Councils services. Andrew moved to the London Borough of Hillingdon, where he became Assistant Director of Resources in Social Services before moving onto Slough Borough Council where he went onto become the Director of Resources as well as the lead for Shares Services and the Heart of Slough Regeneration programme. Andrew then joined the London Borough of Havering as Group Director of Finance and Commerce, and having led the successful creation of oneSource a back office shared service with the London Borough of Newham, he has now become the Director of Community and Resources, responsible for all placed based services. The London Borough of Havering is the third-largest in Greater London, with a population of 230,000; its administrative authority provides everything from education, housing, education, transportation through to waste management.

	Anthony Brown Head of Corporate BI Systems and Support, Network Rail Anthony is currently the Head of Corporate BI Systems and Support responsible for analytics across the entire Corporate Services arena. From his previous roles he has brought with him a wide range of technical knowledge both from a business process perspective and in relation to the technical capabilities and future direction of the tools that help drive Enterprise Performance Management. Anthony was previously, in 2008, the Head of Finance Systems where he was responsible for the strategic direction of Finance Systems and oversaw several major implementations within Finance. Prior to this in 2006, as the Business Planning Manager for the Maintenance function he introduced budgeting and planning tools which were quickly adopted throughout the organisation. Anthony joined Network Rail in 2005 having come from a Systems Accounting background which he’d developed at Amec and British Rail.
	Tricia Buchanan Director of Operational Delivery, CIMA As the Director of Operational Delivery Tricia Buchanan reports directly to CIMA's Executive Directors and has responsibility for many areas of the organisation. More recently Tricia has been responsibility for overseeing the organisations implementation of the analytics solution and the facilitation of the associated business changes. Prior to CIMA Tricia was responsible for customer service and the global help desk at Sage, having started her career managing teams at Utell a hotel & travel agent. CIMA is the world's largest and leading professional body of management accountants. Their mission is to help people and businesses to succeed in the public and private sectors. They have more than 218,000 members and students operating in 177 countries. Working at the heart of business in industry, commerce and not for profit organisations.

	Mark Cotton CIO, Galliford Try Mark Cotton is the CIO of Galliford Try a FTSE 250 house building and construction group delivering industry leading performance in constructing a sustainable future. Galliford Try's hybrid model of house building and construction businesses, reinforced by their vast experience, unmatched competency in regeneration, facilities management and PPP investments enables them to undertake the most complex of projects. Mark has been responsible for a number of major change programmes at Galliford Try, including their ERP implementation that facilitated a drive to transform a process diverse organisation allowing them to potentially realise efficiency gains through process consolidation, standardisation and optimisation. Previously to Galliford Try Mark was the IS Director at Volume House Builder, Taylor Wimpey and was the CIO for BDP a global architecture & engineering firm. He has experience of the automotive industry and the software development industry. Having graduated with a Civil Engineering degree Mark gained a MBA from Warwick Business School in 2008.
	Adrian Daniel Data Delivery Director, dunnhumby Adrian combines advanced systems knowledge, high levels of commercial acuity, and stakeholder engagement skills, to drive actionable insights and personalized communications from "big data" and digital solutions. He has 15 years' experience in using data to drive strategic insights and effective business intelligence, across multiple sectors, including Telecommunications, Contact Centre Management, Product Development, Retail and now Behavioural Science. At dunnhumby Adrian's current focus is on data-led innovation, digital personalization, and multi-channel campaign deployment and evaluation. He is responsible for the global data solutions at dunnhumby, such as the common data model and the integration of "Big Data" technology (Hadoop) with more structured data solutions. dunnhumby is a leading customer science company. They analyse data and apply insights from hundreds of millions of shoppers across the globe to create personalised customer experiences in digital, mobile, and retail environments. Their strategic process, proprietary insights, and multichannel media capabilities aim to build loyalty with customers to drive competitive advantage and sustained growth for clients.

	Ray Eitel-Porter Managing Director with Accenture Digital Ray Eitel-Porter is a Managing Director with Accenture Digital, leading the UK & Ireland Analytics Practice. Since joining Accenture in 2013 he has led work to define the global information and analytics strategy for a major CPG company. He has also been driving warranty and supply chain analytics for an automotive manufacturer and leading a project to design and test a data monetization proposition for a cross-industry service provider. He is a regular speaker and social media commentator on the subjects of analytics, Big Data and Digital transformation. He sits on techUK’s Big Data & Analytics Council. Before joining Accenture, Ray was an executive director and lead for the European practice of Opera Solutions, a global Big Data predictive analytics organization focused on the areas of sales and marketing, credit and risk, and supply chain. For several years he led the design and implementation of a ground-breaking analytics “Signal Hub” for a major global airline. Prior to that, Ray was president of Dimexon Eurostar, a global diamond jewelry manufacturer. He established and built global sales and distribution, design and product development and oversaw all commercial functions. Ray holds a Master of Arts in Modern Languages from Christ Church, Oxford as well as an MBA from INSEAD. He speaks analytics fluently, as well as English, German and French. Ray enjoys squash and skiing and lives in London with his wife and their two daughters.

	James Knight Head of Customer Analytics, LexisNexis As Head of Customer Analytics James is responsible for driving value from customer data for LexisNexis across the organisation. James was previously Head of Advanced Analytics at Rittman Mead where he worked with organisations to gain competitive advantage through the use of data with a focus on big data, customer experience and data-led decisions. Prior to that James was Head of Product at Betfair responsible for the delivery of strategic programmes to provide relevant multi-channel communication to existing customers and prospects. LexisNexis consists of two distinct businesses: LexisNexis® Legal & Professional and LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. Both businesses are part of Reed Elsevier, a leading publisher and information provider that serves customers in more than 100 countries with more than 30,000 employees worldwide.

	Steve Lamey Head of Product Management, Angel Trains Steve Lamey is currently the Head of Product Management at Angel Trains and was the Programme Director responsible for overseeing the introduction of business analytics at Angel Trains. Steve joined Angel Trains in 2002 as the Procurement Manager having come from GE Rail and GE Lighting prior to that. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply and a graduate of the Cranfield School of Management. Angel Trains is one of Britain's leading train leasing companies and has been an owner and lessor of rolling stock since 1994. It is unique in leasing to all 19 franchised operators and open access operators in the UK. They have invested £3.5 billion in new rolling stock and refurbishment programmes since 1994, employing approximately 120 professional, technical and support staff at its headquarters in Victoria, London and at a second office in Derby.

	Barry Loftus Group IT Director, JD Sports Barry Loftus is Group IT Director at JD Sports Fashion, based in Bury, near Manchester. He joined in October 2008 and has worked in a number of capacities focused on Business Intelligence & Applications Development. Over the past 6 years he and his team have facilitated an analytical evolution within the business. JD Sports Fashion plc. is a leading retailer of branded sportswear and fashionwear with 900 stores and online business across a number of retail locations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy and Spain. The company owns many top brands, including McKenzie, Carbrini, and Duffer of St George, and sells many limited edition and exclusive designs from Adidas Originals and Nike. JD Sports is a fast growing - both organically and through acquisition. Over the past 10 years turnover has doubled for the group.

	Elaine McKechnie Group Head of MIS, Baxters As the Group Head of Management Information Systems Elaine McKechnie is responsible for both business systems and infrastructure for the luxury food manufacturer, Baxters Food Group. Elaine joined Baxters in 2006 as part of the team to implement Oracle EBusiness Suite across UK operations, quickly followed by integrations into the Canadian, Polish and Australian business units. In 2009 Elaine led the successful implementation of an on-premise Hyperion solution which delivered automated Sales to Gross Margin actual, forecast and budget information, reported daily, and enabling key stake holders to make business decisions from a position of knowledge. During the last eight years Elaine has worked on a number of acquisitions which has provided the added challenge of ensuring the executive team has full visibility of Group performance across disparate systems. For four generations, the Baxter family has been producing some of the UK's finest soups, preserves, condiments, beetroot, chutneys and a wide range of other fine quality food products. Today, 146 years on, each recipe is carefully developed with the personal guidance of Audrey Baxter and our dedicated team of experienced chefs. Inspired by the Baxter family’s passion for great tasting food, they work tirelessly and meticulously to create new products and ranges. The Baxter family continue to taste every recipe and no product leaves the kitchen until it meets the exacting standards of Audrey Baxter.

	Nina Monckton Head of Information Services, NHS Business Services Authority As the Head of Information Services Nina Monckton is responsible for helping the NHS to gain value from its vast, varied & complex transactional health and financial datasets. Nina has worked within the healthcare sector for 20 years and has spent the past seven years as a Head of Service within the NHS BSA an Arm's Length Body of the Department of Health. Nina works with other NHS and Government bodies to develop and implement policy and she is a member of the NHS National Information Board Working Group. Nina has successfully implemented projects to deliver secure information systems for use by the wider NHS and improved processes and systems to manage pensions administration for dentists. She has expertise in using analytics for the purposes of detecting and preventing fraud and error. The NHS BSA provides a range of critical central services to NHS organizations in England & Wales, NHS contractors, patients and the public. This portfolio covers the management of the NHS Pension Scheme, the provision of strategic procurement and contract management expertise on Department of Health (DH), the payments to pharmacists for prescriptions (1 billion prescription items and payments totalling over £9 billion each year), and payments to dentists for work undertaken on NHS contracts (44 million dental forms and payments totalling over £2.5 billion). It also includes the provision of management information to over 25,000 registered NHS and DH users on costs and trends in prescribing and dental care in England and Wales.

	James Norman Group Finance Director, Network Rail James is the Deputy Group Finance Director for Network Rail, having previously had a focus on Network Operations with Network Rail. Prior to Network Rail James was a Finance Director at May Gurney, now part of the Kier Group, who was an integrated support and construction company. James graduated from Dublin Business School. In October 2002, Network Rail took over the running of Britain’s rail infrastructure with a mandate from the Government to improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway. They operate, maintain and invest in Britain’s rail network: 20,000 miles of track (and infrastructure), 32,000 bridges and tunnels, 18 major stations, 2,500 other stations (leased to train operators) and 8,200 commercial properties.

	Laurent Peltiers Data Scientist, Flight Test Centre, Airbus As lead and expert on Big Data Laurent is responsible the huge amount of data collected during the development of new aircraft and their test flights. These volumes collected are ever increasing and becoming ever more important to gaining insight and ultimately making the right choices and decisions. In this context, Laurent is responsible for creating and delivering the solutions to handle this “Big Data” and to deliver the right information as quick as possible to the business. Prior to Airbus Laurent worked for ALTEN a European leader in engineering and technology consulting, providing support to its clients’ development strategies in the fields of innovation, R&D and it systems. He moved to ALTEN from Apside technologies. Laurent graduated with a Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Enseeiht, A ‘‘Grande Ecole’’ School of Engineering. Airbus is the world’s leading commercial aircraft manufacturer whose customer focus, commercial know-how, technological leadership and manufacturing efficiency have set the standard for the aviation industry. Ensuring the company’s full range of jetliners remains at the cutting edge of performance, Airbus is continuously developing product innovations to meet its customers’ needs.
	Patrick Sibley General Manager, ARRIVA Having graduated from Manchester University Patrick joined Arriva's UK Bus General Management Graduate Trainee Programme. He has subsequently worked for one of Arriva's rail franchises, Cross Country Trains, before returning to Arriva UK Bus as Head of Commercial Modelling. Patrick leads the commercial analysis function within Arriva and leads the policy interaction on behalf of UK Bus for Regional Operating Companies. Within Arriva he is also responsible for ensuring that concessionary fare revenues are maximised. He has now more recently been appointed as General Manager of Hemel Hempstead Bus Depot. Arriva is one of the largest transport services organisations in Europe, employing some 54,500 people and delivering more than 2.2 billion passenger journeys across 14 European countries every year. With annual revenues of €4.18bn from buses, trains, trams, waterbuses and non-emergency ambulances and cars. Airbus is the world’s leading commercial aircraft manufacturer whose customer focus, commercial know-how, technological leadership and manufacturing efficiency have set the standard for the aviation industry. Ensuring the company’s full range of jetliners remains at the cutting edge of performance, Airbus is continuously developing product innovations to meet its customers’ needs. "Driving & Conducting the Business with Analytics." Patrick will share how Arriva's transformed their business through the use of analytics in order to merge their on-bus and off-bus revenue sales channel data to deliver increased passenger numbers, passenger yield and improve operational efficiency. He will describe how the managed cloud service based on engineered systems has enabled them to reduce risk whilst providing both greater flexibility and the ability to address future demands from the business by exploiting the information in Arriva's commercial data warehouse.

	Matt Vale Head of Business Intelligence, Adelphi Services, Home Office The Home Office is the lead government department for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime policy and counter-terrorism and works to ensure visible, responsive and accountable policing in the UK. Its mission is to ensure visible, responsive, and accountable policing throughout the country. As Head of Business Intelligence for the last 2 years within Adelphi Services in the Home Office, Matt is responsible for helping one of the largest Departments of State access and use Finance and HR transactional data, to drive efficiencies and make better, evidence-based corporate decisions. Matt has worked at the Home Office in a variety of roles for 12 years, most recently leading on organisational change, making best use of technology and people to achieve better business outcomes. As well as managing the Home Office’s BI system he has overseen projects to upgrade their Oracle BI offering to ensure that finance professionals and line managers have the tools to do their jobs most efficiently, freeing them up to focus the critical business of the Department.

Track Hosts
	Dean Misquitta UK Director of Business Analytics, Commercial Industries, Oracle Innovation through Modernisation – Analytics has the ability to support and deliver the innovations needed within the business to respond to the challenge of digital disruption. However, organisations must consider putting in place a solution that provides them a platform to deliver modern self-service analytics that is agile, governed, secure and a springboard to the future. Join this track to hear how customers use analytics to make every decision count at the moment it matters.

	Peter Cook UK Director of Business Analytics, Financial Services, Oracle All Data, Any Data – Today enterprises are in a position to take advantage of All Data, be that Big Data from external sources, internal unstructured data, or structured operational transactional data. They can use the insight gained to identify new revenue opportunities, improve customer experience or deliver greater business efficiency. Join this track to hear from a number of customers who are tackling the challenges of gaining insight from all data and modernising their approach to analytics.

	Peter Sharman UK Director of Business Analytics, Public Sector, Oracle Transformational Strategies – Many organisations are exploiting greater insights across their organisations as an enabler and foundation to their transformational strategies. Most are also considering how Cloud impacts their business and how they can take advantage of the opportunities it provides, be it Public, Private or Hybrid. All recognise the power of today’s Analytics. Join this track to hear from various customers who are taking different approaches to deliver tomorrow’s Analytics to their organisations today.

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