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.

Andrew Joo is senior manager of the national BIPM practice at Hitachi Consulting. He has more than 15 years of deep strategy, financial, cost management, business process, and technology consulting experience encompassing a multitude of technologies, 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@hitachiconsulting.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.