Pascal Brosset

Pascal Brosset is Senior Vice-President for Corporate and Portfolio Strategy at SAP AG. Since he joined SAP in 2000, he held various management positions in Business Development and Solutions Strategy.

The Corporate and Portfolio Strategy groups are responsible for SAP's overall strategic planning across the different business units, supporting the Board to formulate and implement SAP's strategy, from portfolio planning to licensing/pricing.

Prior to joining SAP, Pascal Brosset was a partner in a global consulting firm, with a focus on technology leveraged growth strategies across a number of industry sectors.

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Timo Elliot

Timo Elliott is Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for Business Objects. He was the eighth employee of Business Objects and for the last twenty years has been a thought leader and conference speaker in business intelligence and performance management.

A popular and engaging speaker, Elliott presents regularly to IT and business audiences at international conferences, drawing on his experience working with enterprise customers around the globe. Topics include the latest developments in BI/PM technology, how best to suceed with BI/PM projects, and future trends in the industry.

His articles appear regularly in industry journals and his "BI Questions" blog can be accessed at www.timoelliott.com.

Prior to Business Objects, Elliott was a computer consultant in Hong Kong and lead analytics projects for Shell in New Zealand. He holds a first-class honors degree in Economics with Statistics from Bristol University, England.

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Lidewij Gerner

Lidewij Gerner is sinds 2005 hoofd bedrijfseconomische ondersteuning bij de Zorgcombinatie Noorderboog (ziekenhuis en ouderenzorg). Daarnaast is zij projectleider Datawarehouse / Business Objects.
Onder haar leiding heeft Noorderboog de verschillende onderdelen
(personeel, financieel en productie) van het datawarehouse ge&luml;mplementeerd
en uitgerold in de organisatie. Op dit moment is Noorderboog, met behulp van haar Business Intelligence partner VCD, bezig met de ontwikkeling van dashboards. Deze dashboards zullen toegankelijk zijn voor de 3 organisatielagen (strategisch, tactisch en operationeel) en voor de medisch specialisten.

Lidewij Gerner is van oorsprong econometrist en is goed is staat om complexe problematiek op een eenvoudige manier te verwoorden. Hiervoor is zij op verschillende management functies werkzaam geweest bij non profit organisaties.