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		Frank Buytendijk – Vice President, Enterprise Performance Management Strategy, Oracle
		Frank is one of the world's leading experts in business intelligence and performance management. Part strategy consultant to Oracle customers, part strategist, and part trend-spotter, Frank seeks to identify challenges even before they present themselves. Frank's goal is to help companies find creative and smarter ways of improving enterprise performance.


		Thomas Oestreich, Senior Director, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management
		As a member of Oracle’s EPM strategy team, Thomas is an integral part of the development and definition of Oracle’s EPM vision. His unique expertise gives him exclusive insight into the market landscape. It also allows him to anticipate change and envision the next practices—within Oracle, and industry-wide. He is responsible for the development and execution of strategic initiatives. Thomas is the main architect of Oracle’s Management Excellence thought leadership and the Strategy-To-Success framework. His knowledge and insight plays a key role in ensuring that the EPM team maintains a leadership position in the market. Dedicated to customer success and with his thorough approach and tremendous experience in developing BI and PM solutions he is widely acknowledged a trusted advisor for customers. Thomas has spent ten years managing the relationship/partnership with SAP and supporting the field to position and navigate in the SAP ecosystem. While at Hyperion, he ran the Centre of Excellence for SAP Solutions in Walldorf where the team demonstrated to customers how Hyperion’s solutions work within an SAP environment. His experience also includes several years at Brio Software, where he held several management positions, laying the solid foundations of the professional services organization and successfully implementing multi-national BI and PM projects. Before joining Brio Software, Thomas co-founded nature pack, a company providing environmental packaging material to more than 100 customers. In his years as an independent consultant he gained a deep insight into developing and executing market strategies.


		Ivo Bauermann – Senior Director, Performance Management Applications
		Ivo has over 10 years experience in enterprise software across a variety of industries. He joined Oracle from Hyperion Solutions and was previously with PeopleSoft. He has also worked as consultant for Price Waterhouse Corporate Finance and Ernst & Young Management Consultants, focusing on strategy, business valuation and M&A advisory.


		David Ketchin, Vice President, Finance and Employee Transformation, Capgemini
		David Ketchin is Vice President, Finance and Employee Transformation at Capgemini Consulting. David supports CFOs and their senior Finance teams in determining a functional strategy to deliver on their promise to the rest of the business. He has supported a number of FTSE-100, -350 and equivalent-sized organisations in implementing improvements to their business performance management, risk management processes, core transaction processing and operating models. Commenting on his role, David Ketchin said: "Companies are under pressure to deliver short-term results while assuring long-term growth. In a tightening economy it is important to be one of the last companies exposed by financial challenges and one of the first to demonstrate recovery. My role is to support the CFOs of our clients in securing business control and performance management in an efficient manner. This means ensuring that forecasting is accurate, analysis is reliable and relevant to critical business decisions, and all teams across the organisation are focused on profitable activities. It also means ensuring that the finance function has the right capabilities and tools to play a significant role in each of these core processes."

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