Speakers

Andrew Beers is the Senior Director of Engineering for Tableau Software and is currently responsible for the development of Tableau’s product line. Andrew joined Tableau in October 2004 and brought with him seven years of hands-on and leadership experience in software engineering. He applied this experience at Tableau initially by developing major components of the Tableau Desktop product, then leading the creation and delivery of the Tableau Server product. Prior to coming to Tableau, he held leadership positions in the engineering groups at Align Technology, a medical device company in Silicon Valley, CA. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and photography.
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Bruce Boston is a dataholic and SQL junkie with little hope of recovery. He has worked in International Trade, the US/Japanese Automotive Industry, a Japanese Maquiladora Operation on the US/Mexico border, a Silicon Valley Virtual World Start-up, an Internet Media Conglomerate and now Apple, all with the single hope of making products and processes better with data.

In his current position at Apple, Bruce employes his previous analytical experience to produce data views and reports in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server based on AppleCare support data that AppleCare, Apple Enginnering, Apple Finance, Apple Marketing and even Apple Industrial Design are using to make product decisions based on direct feedback from Apple Customers.
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Ross Bunker is a Senior Software Engineer for Tableau Software. Ross has been building software for 15 years. At Tableau since 2005, Ross has contributed multiple features including the calculation engine, hyperlinks and Tableau Server’s server and web client components. Prior to Tableau, Ross spent 6 years at Microsoft leading the development of the query execution engine for SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 before moving on to roles at Westside.com and BEA Systems. Ross graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Computer Science.
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A 15-year veteran of the multimedia industry, Dino Citraro’s work has spanned interactive motion pictures, multi-player online games, immersive data visualizations, and interactive hardware installations. Periscopic is an award-winning interactive design and development firm specializing in user-centric design with a strong focus on information visualization. The company's work has appeared in several publications, including the 2009 Communication Arts Interactive Annual, and in the Information Design Sourcebook.
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Michael has spent 12+ years as a business analytics consultant, primarily developing tools clients can use to understand their next/best business decision. Much of this practice focused on developing out-of-the-box applications using existing or new tools. Prior to that, he spent 15 years as urban/regional planner and 8 years in telecommunications demand forecasting as a telephone company employee and consultant. Michael has a Bachelor of Urban Planning from University of Cincinnati.
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Austin Dahl is a Senior Software Engineer for Tableau Software and leader of the Special Projects development team. This team customizes Tableau software for customers and other 3rd parties, including Oracle/Hyperion. Austin joined Tableau in the 2006 with over 15 years of industry experience, spanning diverse application areas such as audio-video search, in-silico biological modeling and analysis and interactive 3D graphics for design and manufacturing. He has degrees in computer science from the University of Washington and mathematics from Carleton College.
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For thirty years, Rick Denning has strived to bring analytics to Risk Management sciences. In 1994, he formed Shelter Island Risk Services to increase the strategic value of risk data in major organizations. His vision is that quality data, advanced information technology, and statistical interpretation are collectively essential tools for successful Risk Managers.

Rick has an undergraduate degree in engineering from Case Western Reserve University, received a J.D. degree from Fordham Law School and is a member of the New York State Bar. He earned an MS in Quantitative Methods from New York University. He has served on the insurance industry’s Risk & Insurance Management Society’s (RIMS) Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), and was an Adjunct Professor at the College of Insurance (New York City). He is author of thirty professional publications and a popular speaker and educator on risk management topics. Rick developed and teaches the RIMS sponsored workshop and boot camp: “Risk Analysis Tools for Effective Risk Management“.

His passion is measuring risk management performance through innovative score carding and graphical communications. The interest in graphics extends to art. Rick is recognized watercolor artist and elected member of the Art Students League of New York City.
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Pawan leads a team at Progressive Insurance focused on improving process. He has been using Tableau desktop for about 2 years in the areas of segmentation and marketing analytics. He's spoken at several conferences and also at Progressive on a number of topics.
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As the Server Development Lead for Tableau Software, Alan is focused on all aspects of improving Tableau Server. Recently he's had a particular focus on improving Tableau Server's performance and scalability. Prior to working at Tableau, he was the Development Manager for the Platform Infrastructure group at Expedia.com, where he helped lead the development team that created Expedia’s third generation application infrastructure and messaging systems.
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Erin Easter is the Lead Technical Writer for Tableau Software. Erin joined Tableau in October 2005 after graduating from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Technical Communication. At Tableau, Erin writes the online and offline product manuals, manages the support forums, and creates a variety of other product guides. In her spare time, she enjoys mountain biking, backpacking, and hanging out with her rabbit.
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Ellie Fields is the Director of Product Marketing at Tableau Software, responsible for product launches among other things. Prior to Tableau, Ellie managed online marketing at Redfin, and spent several years as a Group Product Manager at Microsoft. Ellie is a graduate of Rice University and has an MBA from Stanford University.
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Elissa Fink is Tableau Software’s Vice President of Marketing. With 20+ years helping companies improve their marketing operations through applied data analysis, Elissa has held executive positions in marketing, business strategy, product management, and product development.

Prior to Tableau, Elissa was EVP Marketing at IXI Corporation, a firm specializing in marketing information. She has also served in executive positions at Tele Atlas, TopTier Software, and Claritas, Inc. Elissa also spent time selling advertising for the Wall Street Journal. Elissa holds a B.A. from Santa Clara University and an MBA in Marketing and Decision Systems from the University of Southern California.
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Jesse Gebhardt is a technical resource for our Sales Team. He is presented with hundreds of different business problems from every type of industry each month, which makes him well-equipped to answer questions on the fly. Seeing what all our customers are using Tableau for is a great perk of his job. If you have a question about “can (and how can) Tableau do this for me?” then he’s your guy (along with his colleagues).

Jesse is an East-Coaster living on the West Coast. He studied Physics and Computer Science at the University of Southern California. His family owns a restaurant in New Jersey, so food is his life (along with analysis).
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Experian is a global leader in providing information, analytical tools and marketing services to organizations and consumers to help manage risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions. Experian Automotive, a business unit of Experian, narrows that focus into providing products and services pertaining to automobiles, their drivers and their sellers. Heidi has been with Experian for 10 years in various roles including sales and project management and now is with Experian Automotive for the two years working in data analysis and research.
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Iain Heath, Senior Software Engineer and joined the Tableau Desktop team in 2005. He brings over 20 years of user interface experience, including senior development positions with Visio and Microsoft. A native of the UK, Iain earned his degree in Brontë country. In his spare time he dabbles in the card magic and Lego building.
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Chuck Hooper is a Senior Professional Services Consultant at Tableau, responsible for helping customer build and deploy business intelligence applications, to drive actionable insights. In 2005, in his private BI and data warehouse consulting practice, he became Tableau’s first consulting partner. Since that time, he has created Tableau based dashboards, scorecards, reports and analytic processes in multiple industries, including telecom, CPG (manufacturing and retailer), banking, education, service suppliers, insurance and transportation. He conducts training sessions on the use of Tableau, data warehouse design, and other business intelligence topics at both the technical and the executive levels.
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Niels Hoven leads much of the testing, optimization, and SEO efforts for Tableau Software’s website. He has master’s degrees in engineering from Rice and UC Berkeley, is the author of the whitepaper “How Not to Build Your SEO strategy: 10 tricks your Consultant Won’t Tell You”, and strongly recommends that you try the coconut cream pie from Dahlia Bakery before you leave Seattle.
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Dan Jewett is Tableau Software’s Vice President of Product Management. Dan joined Tableau from Hyperion Solutions where he was VP of Development responsible for the business intelligence products, including Interactive Reporting, Financial Reporting, Web Analysis, SQR, and the System 9 Workspace. Prior to Hyperion Dan was at Brio Software serving in a number of capacities including VP of Business Intelligence and VP of System Architecture. Dan holds a bachelor’s degree in business from California State University, Sacramento, and a master’s degree in business administration (finance) from California State University, Long Beach.
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Dirk Karis just passed his 2 year anniversary with Tableau. A member of the Special Projects team, he worked on mapping and server tools for this release. He previously worked for Microsoft for 8 years following its acquisition of Intrinsa Corporation. Dirk holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Mr. Igor Kaludjer is a manager at Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d., one of the largest banks in Croatia and a member of Raiffeisen International, a leading banking group in southeast Europe. He has extensive experience in quantitative analysis & modeling, statistics, data mining, business intelligence, credit scoring, and Basel II. He led an effort to decentralize Business Intelligence at his bank to put power in the hands of the users.
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Michael Kravec joined Tableau at the end of 2008 as a Sales Consultant. Prior to Tableau, he had held positions at Rockwell as well as small startups focusing on machine vision, Human Machine Interfaces, data collection and analysis for the manufacturing industry. Michael holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Paul is President of Contractor's Information Systems, a company with 10+ years installing and consulting on financial and project management systems. Paul has been a national speaker for the Construction Financial Management Association and several related groups.
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John Lee has spent 15 years in the business intelligence and data analysis realm, consulting business partners in the healthcare and marketing industries on how to leverage data. He has a lifelong passion for art and graphic design and a tremendous empathy for those trying to make sense of data overload. John is also a SAS programmer and statistical analyst. John works at World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
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Jock Mackinlay is Tableau Software's Director of Visual Analysis. At Stanford University he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information. He joined Xerox PARC in 1986, where he collaborated with the User Interface Research Group to develop many novel applications of computer graphics for information access, coining the term "Information Visualization." Much of the fruits of this research can be seen in his book, "Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think." Jock has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
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Colin Mahony has been involved with Vertica Systems from the beginning, first as an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, and now running Business Development and Alliances. Colin has over 12 years experience in the high tech industry, and he brings a combination of technical knowledge, market intelligence, and deal experience. Colin is responsible for Vertica's indirect business with OEMs and system integrators, in addition to Vertica's complementary technology ecosystem.

Prior to Vertica, Colin was a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners focused on investments primarily in enterprise software, telecommunications, and digital media. He established a great network and reputation for understanding both the technical and business side of a deal. Prior to Bessemer, Colin worked at Lazard Technology Partners in a similar investor capacity.

Prior to his venture capital experience, Colin was a Senior Analyst at the Yankee Group serving as an industry analyst and consultant covering databases, BI, middleware, application servers and ERP systems. Colin helped build the Internet Computing Strategies practice at Yankee in the late nineties. While at Yankee Colin was quoted in several publications including ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, Business Week, and InformationWeek.

Colin earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degrees in Economics with a minor in Computer Science from Georgetown University.
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Jurgen is an Operational Intelligence Analyst with the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), which conducts internal and external investigations into irregular or fraudulent activities concerning the financial interests of the European Union. He specializes in operational intelligence analysis and risk analysis in the area of financial fraud, specifically relating to import / export and agriculture. He has done frequent presentations for the German government and the European Commission since 1993.
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Michael is the managing partner at dataSense Market Research, which helps leading Canadian grocery retailers and suppliers minimize out out-stocks, maximize store sales, and better understand their customers. He has international experience in strategic & infrastructure planning and alignment. He also has extensive experience in database development, data mining, project / risk management, and applications development.
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Stephen has 20 years of experience leading data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytical efforts across a wide range of industries and applications. His roles have been widely varied and include work as a Director of Web Advertising Analytics, Manager of Marketing Analytics at Netflix and REI, Senior Biostatistician, Senior Statistical Programmer, Senior Software Product Manager at Brio Technology, Senior Director of R&D at SAS, and Manager of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence at HP. Though the years, he has presented papers at business intelligence conferences and lectured at a number of universities.

Stephen is the lead author of “SAS for Dummies”, Wiley Press, 2007. His personal philosophy is centered on ensuring that analysis is clearly driven by business needs and focuses on ease of interpretation and ability to act on the results. He is currently working on a book guiding people on how to discover and share profound insights via Tableau 5.0. His personal interests include hiking in the Puget Sound region, visiting wineries in Washington and Oregon, skiing, sailing, and enjoying great food with friends and family.
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Robert Morton joined Tableau in the spring of 2008 as a Software Engineer. His contributions to the Special Projects team include the Teradata connector and rebranding Tableau for distribution by OEMs. Prior to Tableau Robert worked on the performance team for the Intel Atom microprocessor. Robert has an BS EE and MCS from Rice University. Robert always finds time to enjoy cooking, and in his spare time he enjoys traveling and outdoor sports.
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Dan Murray is the COO of InterWorks Inc., a full-service, information technology consulting firm and a Reseller Partner of Tableau with clients in North America and Europe.

Dan has a diverse background in accounting/finance, operations, sales and information technology over the past 25 years. His uniquely diverse background enabled him to see the potential of Tableau as a High Value Low Cost BI platform early on when he was CIO for Blastrac Global

Dan's case study presentation last year provided a basic roadmap for the fast implementation of high value visual analytics while he was CIO at Blastrac, a mid-market manufacturer of construction equipment with facilities in North American, Europe and Asia. The rollout of a High Value Low Cost Business information system at there was accomplished for 10% of the quoted price from traditional BI vendors and Blastrac received reports within days (versus months) which provided management with actionable information that was quickly and easily adapted to individual users needs.

Joining InterWorks to bring the vision of High Value Low Cost Business Information to a wider audience, Dan visualizes Tableau as a key enabling technology which helps managers get to the who, what, why, when and how answers rapidly.
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Brandon has over 20 years experience in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. As a Professional Services consultant with Chockstone, a Heartland Payment Systems Company, he regularly presents to franchisees, restaurant executives and internal sales staff on visualizing results of promotions and sales opportunities using the mapping features of Tableau.
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Kim Rees has 15 years of experience in the multimedia industry. She has a history of software development in alternative technologies through her efforts with physical computing, embedded systems, and media programming. Kim received her BA in Computer Science from NYU. Periscopic is an award-winning interactive design and development firm specializing in user-centric design with a strong focus on information visualization. The company's work has appeared in several publications, including the 2009 Communication Arts Interactive Annual, and in the Information Design Sourcebook.
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Joshua Rosenthal, Ph.D. specializes in Behavioral Analytics and Quantifying qualitative data at Eliza Corporation. Eliza pioneered breakthroughs in computer speech recognition and natural language understanding. That technology is used by health organizations across the country to communicate, educate, and create behavior change.
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Marc Rueter is Tableau Software’s Director of Sales Consulting. Prior to Tableau, he held positions at MicroStrategy and Siebel Systems. At Siebel, he led a team that developed successful applications for retailers. Marc also plays an instrumental role in Tableau’s product development, providing critical input based on his experience helping clients with large projects. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer for SQLServer. Marc holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of Washington.
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Scott Sherman is a Senior Software Engineer for Tableau Software, joining Tableau in 2006. Prior to coming to Tableau, Scott built the layout engine for SmartArt™ in Microsoft Office, designed a browser for handheld computers, and served as chief architect for a CAD system called Vdraft. In his spare time, Scott enjoys playing ice hockey, backpacking and skiing.
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Jeff Solomon is a Software Engineer for Tableau Software. Jeff joined Tableau in 2008 and brought with him over 10 years of experience in large data visualization. Prior to coming to Tableau, Jeff worked for Synopsys Inc. Jeff earned his doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University where he patented a novel approach to visualizing the massive amount of data contained in a VLSI design.
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Maureen Stone has been working in digital color, graphics, perception and the tools for information display for over 30 years. As principle of StoneSoup Consulting, she assists clients both business and research clients on a wide range of color and visualization problems, as well as teaching. She is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University’s School for Interactive Arts and Technology, and editor-in-chief of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. Her book, A Field Guide to Digital Color, was published by A.K. Peters in 2003. Prior to starting StoneSoup Consulting, she worked at Xerox PARC on projects in digital color, graphics, design and interaction.
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Wade Tibke is Tableau’s Marketing Systems Manager and is responsible for all of Tableau Software’s marketing systems and data, including its CRM systems, web analytics, and customer database. He has introduced several new marketing technologies to Tableau, including automation and website optimization. With deep knowledge of databases and nearly 10 years in high tech marketing, Wade is able to comfortably travel the gap between executing marketing programs and leveraging information technology.
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Heather Torres has 15 years of experience in human capital analysis and financial analysis and is currently the Director of Global Workforce Analytics at AOL. Her team is responsible for designing the full suite of workforce reports and scorecards to the executive leadership team, as well as the advanced analyses of such things as the monthly employee survey statistics and the ROI of training and development programs.

Prior to joining AOL, Heather was a Senior Consultant for Infohrm and a Director of Human Resources at Capital One Financial. She is a passionate advocate for driving faster, higher-quality decision making in organizations through the combined use of business intelligence and applied analytic design concepts. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Steve is i4cp’s director of research systems where he is helping build a personalized survey visualization system that allows i4cp research analysts and i4cp members to mine millions of data records to glean critical, performance-improving insights.

Prior to this, Steve served as director of research and emerging technologies for The eLearning Guild, where he designed and managed the world’s largest and most comprehensive e-Learning data collection and analysis laboratory. Steve has written several books on computers and holds a Bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a fellowship Master's degree from the University of Miami.
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Dana is an accomplished speaker at Wells Fargo Wealth Management Group. In 2008 she was a guest speaker at Stanford University in Professor Sam Savage’s Business Modeling Class. She is the founder of Wells Fargo Tableau Users Group with deep interest in data visualization.
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