Irina Steenbeek
Data Management Professional
Dr. Irina Steenbeek is a data management professional with an extensive financial background. She works with medium-sized businesses on a strategic level, and assists top management in optimizing the decision making processes and company performance, and implementing data management frameworks, supported by an effective set of business capabilities.
Irina has a complementary practical experience in software implementation such as ERP and DWH/BI, business consultancy and control, and data science.
Irina is the author of 2 books: The Data Management Toolkit and The Data Management Cookbook, various white-papers and articles on the topics of data management and its implementation.
Throughout the years, she has worked for global institutions and large- and medium-sized international organizations, and in 2016 she has founded Data Crossroads – a consultancy agency in the area of data management. She has developed a generic data management implementation model applicable for medium-sized companies. The model offers a uniform approach that allows companies to get an effective ‘fit-for-purpose’ data management framework in a short period of time, and allows to save resources and manpower due to an efficient approach.
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Mark Stiving
Advisor and Chief Pricing Educator, Impact Pricing
Mark is a pricing expert who helps companies understand value, how to create it, communicate it and capture it. He has a PhD from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Santa Clara University, plus 25+ years pricing experience. As an educator, speaker and coach, Mark applies innovative, value-based pricing strategies to guide growth and increase profits for large and small companies.
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Saleem Sufi
Global Strategic CFO
Saleem is a CFO Leadership Coach and Strategy Expert with more than 20 years CFO level experience working for top world class Fortune 500 and Private Equity owned companies in Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and United States. He is the Founder and President of MECA CFO Academy where he leads the Senior Finance Community with an entire focus on leadership development and career growth.
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PARIS Technologies
PARIS Technologies International, Inc. delivers a collaborative platform for enterpris- level FP&A in Excel. The PARIS Platform streamlines modern corporate planning, reporting, and analysis processes. With PARIS’s products PowerExcel and Olation, we deliver unprecedented gains in productivity, collaboration, and even responsiveness to Management. To learn more, visit our YouTube Channel
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John Thackeray
Chief Risk & Compliance Policy Writer, RiskInk
John Thackeray is the founder and CEO of RiskInk. helps firms control their risks by developing their risk/compliance narrative through policy, program and procedural writing. Over his long career, he has held many risk positions, including CRO posts where he interacted and engaged with US and European regulators. John is a frequent contributor, thought leader and speaker on risk industry insights. His risk engagements have included published risk articles and white papers for the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), the Risk Management Association (RMA), the Professional Risk Management International Association (PRMIA), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and the Association of Certified Anti Money laundering Specialists (ACAMS).He frequently contributes articles on his risk insights to the Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG).
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Phil Thorne
MD, North America
At Quorso, we passionately believe better Management is at the heart of better Business Performance. As part of the Founding Team, I lead both Operations & Finance and am also currently focused on bringing value to our Retail and Restaurant clients in the US. Our product allows business leaders to power Management by setting direction, mobilizing actions, engaging teams and learning from results all in a single tool. It’s not just about better business performance, but also more engaged teams, which led to us being named one of the top 50 global start ups in retail in 2020.
Quorso works with a variety of different Management Information sources including, POS, WFM, Task Management, Procurement and is best suited to multi-site businesses.
Areas of Expertise
+ Management Efficiency & Effectiveness
+ Business Operations
+ Corporate Finance
+ Financial Planning
+ Capital raising
+ Entrepreneurship
Get in touch to find out more or visit www.quorso.com
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Upside Business Travel
Upside Business Travel is revolutionizing travel management for small and mid-sized companies with high-tech tools, no fees and 3% cash back. To learn more about how you can centralize your company’s travel and access best-in-class customer service, at no additional cost visit www.upside.com.