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Inderpal Bhandari is Vice President of Knowledge Solutions and Chief Data Officer, responsible for appreciating the business value of Express Scripts’ strategic data assets and for maximizing the utility of the company’s data and its readiness to respond to emerging competitive pressures and market trends. In this role, Bhandari creates products that transform data into insight and knowledge.In addition, Bhandari is responsible for several enterprise-wide, data-related shared services. These include ad-hoc analytics and data mining to inform business strategies; reporting; procurement and governance of analytical resources; data governance; data quality and stewardship; clinical intelligence; drug, patient, and physician data.Prior to the Express Scripts acquisition of Medco Health Solutions, Inc. in April 2012, Bhandari also led legacy Medco’s Agile Enterprise strategy team, serving as the business owner of the data strategy.Before joining Medco in December 2006, Bhandari served as the CEO of Virtual Gold, Inc, a data mining software and business consulting company he founded in 1997. From 1990 to 1997, Bhandari was a member of the research staff at the IBM Watson Research Center, where he won several prestigious awards for his pioneering work in data mining algorithms and their successful application to IBM's businesses. Bhandari’s business and technical contributions have been featured in both technical journals and mainstream media, and he has been invited to make keynote presentations at several prestigious conferences.Bhandari studied electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his PhD in 1990, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he earned a master’s of science degree in 1985. He also studied electrical and electronics engineering at BITS Pilani in India, where he earned a B.Tech degree in 1983.

Jesse Crane is an IT Manager in the Enterprise Architecture group at Stryker Corporation, focused on the design and implementation of Stryker’s worldwide MDM applications. He has spent over 13 years in IT in a wide array of roles ranging from project manager, business analyst, consultant, to application manager. Prior to Stryker, he spent 5 years at Stanford University as the Applications Manager for the Oracle ERP group. Jesse has a degree in Finance from George Mason University and an MBA from Butler University.

Ally Basak Russell is compliance officer of Hearsay Social, a provider of an enterprise social marketing platform. Russell is a paid employee of Hearsay Social. Nothing in this article should be interpreted as legal advice.

Phil Myers, CEO of StoredIQ, has over 29 years of experience in developing market-leading businesses in the technology industry. He is responsible for StoredIQ’s strategic direction and executive management. In 2009 Phil co-founded PerformanceEdge Partners, a business development firm focused on creating successful outcomes for the SMB.

Justin Washburn is a Master Data Management consultant who has been working on Data Integration and MDM projects for 8 years. He has implemented Informatica MDM and IDD solutions for pharmaceutical and entertainment companies. Justin has also supported Initiate and in-house MDM solutions. He has experience leading both onsite and offshore teams in the implementation of complex IT applications.Justin graduated from the University of Michigan in 2004 with a degree in Computer Science and now lives in Berkeley, CA.

Gary Spakes is a Systems Engineer Manager for SAS, focusing on both the technical aspects and business implications involving SAS High Performance Analytics.

Whitney Eden is the Digital Content Developer at Information Management and can be reached at whitney.eden@sourcemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter at @WhitneyAEden.

Tanja Glisin has worked in the field of IT for 15 years, joining TELUS in 2010 as a Sr. Technology Architect and team lead responsible for their Enterprise Data Quality Management Program. For the past 10 years of her career, Tanja has focused on Data Quality Management, Metadata Management and Data Governance in the context of Customer Relationship Management, Master Data Management and Enterprise Data Warehousing. Data Quality Management and Data Governance are her job and passion, and she has worked extensively within both the Telecommunications and Financial Services industries.