Advisors

Rich Chlebek is is a director of business intelligence at BICP, Business Intelligence Competency Partners, which focuses on providing SAP business intelligence solutions to its customers. He has 19 years of information systems software development, integration, and training experience in a variety of industries, including financial, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, telecom, and government. He possesses expert knowledge in all products in the BusinessObjects suite of tools. His experience including 14 years of BusinessObjects Enterprise implementations, 14 years of Universe Design, eight years of Web Intelligence, six years of Crystal Reports, four years of Xcelsius, and three years of BW integration.

Anupam Gupta is a practice manager at The Principal Consulting (TPC), managing its enterprise performance management (EPM) practice. He has more than 10 years of development and global consulting experience with SAP solutions in the areas of financial planning, reporting, and consolidation. He is responsible for the development of EPM competencies, knowledge management assets, and TPC-developed solutions spanning a range of SAP products such as SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Business Planning and Consolidation, and SAP Strategic Enterprise Management.

Stephanie Huber is a senior consultant for business intelligence at Decision First Technologies with extensive experience providing a strong business and technical background on Crystal Reports, Xcelsius dashboards, Universe Designer, and Web Intelligence. As a current member of the SAP Crystal Reports Influence Council, she contributes to the strategic direction of the product and offers valuable insight on future releases. She has an in-depth understanding of SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and OLAP and relational DataSources, honed in a variety of industries including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and finance. She is consistently engaged on mission critical projects whose success is dependent on her skills in all stages of the development cycle: requirement analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and end-user training abilities. She has reliably demonstrated an excellent ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, resulting in high quality solutions within an aggressive timeframe despite very challenging technical constraints. You can follow Stephanie on Twitter @shuber1 and reach her by email at Stephanie.Huber@DecisionFirst.com.

Andrew Joo is part of the SAP Business Analytics Center of Excellence at IBM Global Business Services. He has more than 15 years of deep strategy, financial, cost management, business process, and technology consulting experience encompassing a multitude of technologies (SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, MicroStrategy), industries, processes, solutions, methodologies, and roles. In addition to serving as a thought leader and subject matter expert in the field of Enterprise Performance Management, business intelligence, and information management disciplines, he has been integral in practice development, business development, and industry and community outreach efforts. He possesses an MBA in strategy/marketing from Rice University. You can reach Andrew at ajoo@us.ibm.com.

Steve Krandel is manager of enterprise business intelligence tools at Intuit. He leads a team that is a BusinessObjects Competency Center, focusing on the deployment of the software suite throughout Intuit’s business units. He has more than 26 years of experience in business intelligence and data warehousing, specializing in the implementation of query and reporting tools for the last 15 years. He has been a BusinessObjects customer, employee, and partner. He is a regular speaker at BusinessObjects conferences and user groups.

Don Loden is a business intelligence consultant with full life cycle data warehouse experience in multiple verticals. He speaks nationally and mentors on data warehousing, ETL, and data quality best practices. He has more than 10 years of information technology experience in the following areas: ETL architecture, development, and tuning; logical and physical data modeling; business analysis; technical training; and mentoring.

Mico Yuk is director of sales and business development at Benchmarkers Business Intelligence, a company that she co-founded to represent the consulting and services side of EverythingXcelsius.com (the “Xcelsius Gurus” network), which she founded in 2008. She has implemented executive dashboards for SAP BusinessObjects Global Services clients such as Allstate, Pfizer, Aviva Canada, McKesson, Ryder Logistics, the U.S. Air Force, Medtronics, and Schering Plough. Her most recent accomplishments include serving on the ASUG Influence Council, hosting the Xcelsius Reception at the 2010 SAP BusinessObjects User Conference, winning the first Reportapalooza Dashboards by Request Challenge, and being nominated as a 2010 SAP Mentor.