Jesper Hybholt Sorensen
Co-Founder, Finance Analytics Institute

Jesper Hybholt Sorensen is a Finance Executive who is leading global finance teams for multi-billion-dollar businesses. He has a proven track record of advancing the analytics agenda by utilizing advanced analytics to influence business leaders to make data driven decisions.

Mr. Sorensen is the co-founder of the Finance Analytics Institute (www.fainstitute.com), an educational platform bringing Books, Articles, Research, Benchmarking and its Analytics Academy to help Finance explore data in a new way to discover insight and foresight to unlock endless potential.

Mr. Sorensen is currently the Chief Financial officer at Avaloq. He has also held roles with Oracle, DuPont & IBM. He holds several advisory positions including advisory board member for Aurora Predictions and analytics expert for the International Institute of Analytics.

He holds a Masters Degree in Economics and Management from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt, and is certified in Risk Management and Strategic Decision Making from Stanford University.

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Stanford University
Graduate School of Business

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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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