• Putting first things first
• Setting realistic expectations for results and schedule
• Who needs to be on the team?

Speakers: Kelle O'Neal, Antoinette Cashwell-Robinson, Balaji Ganesan, Solomon Williams, and Theresa Ancick

Kelle O'Neal

Kelle is the Founder and CEO of First San Francisco Partners (FSFP). She is a veteran industry leader, accomplished advisor, noted speaker, author, and trainer. Kelle is passionate about helping organizations realize the business value of data — and empowering them to derive insights that can improve operational efficiency and decision-making, generate new revenue, support sustainability, and mitigate risk and fraud.

Kelle’s strong background in customer relationship management, enterprise software, and systems integration uniquely positions her to excel in helping organizations of all sizes and complexities successfully execute on Data Governance, Organizational Change Management, Master Data Management, Digital Transformation, and other strategic initiatives. She developed her ability to work through organizational complexity, build consensus, and drive results in senior roles at companies that include U.S. Based firms GoldenGate Software, Siebel Systems, and Oracle. She also worked at the executive level in Europe and Asia. Under her leadership of FSFP, the firm’s client list has grown significantly over the years, as has its consulting and support teams. Kelle holds a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Antoinette Cashwell-Robinson

Antoinette Cashwell, MPM, has over 8 years of experience with Lincoln Financial Group, specializing in project management, training, content development, and data analysis, and 6 years of experience in Data Governance. She uses her creativity and drive to support Lincoln’s mission of ensuring that the highest quality data is delivered via data governance strategy for the purpose of improving efficiency, increasing profitability, and lowering the risk of the business units they serve.

Balaji Ganesan

Balaji Ganesan is CEO and co-founder of Privacera, a SaaS-based data access and governance platform that enables analytics teams to access data without compromising compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and HIPAA. Before Privacera, Balaji and Privacera co-founder Don Bosco Durai, also founded XA Secure. XA Secure’s was acquired by Hortonworks, who contributed the product to the Apache Software Foundation and rebranded as Apache RangerTM. Apache Ranger is now deployed in thousands of companies around the world, managing petabytes of data in Hadoop environments. Privacera’s product is built on the foundation of Apache Ranger and  provides a single pane of glass for securing sensitive data across on-prem and multiple cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Databricks, GCP, Snowflake, and Starburst and more. To learn more visit www.privacera.com or follow the company @privacera.

Solomon Williams

Solomon is a recognized thought leader and trusted advisor to business and technology leaders within national and international government agencies as well as the Communications, Energy and Utilities, Transportation and Logistics, and Financial Services industries, for both domestic and global markets.

With extensive experience in acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, internal reorganizations, and pre-IPO due diligence in the US, UK, and Asia, Solomon is focused on enterprise strategy, transformation and roadmap development, delivery of Intelligent Automation, Modernized Data Platforms, hybrid cloud and collaborative cloud solutions, AI/ML-enabled Data Governance and Data Quality programs, and Master Data Management (MDM).

Theresa Ancick

Theresa is a leader in the emerging data governance industry. She holds 20 years of experience guiding data-driven enterprises in building high-performance data warehouses and business intelligence models. Her experience includes acting as a consultant, strategist, and a coach, as well as being a featured speaker on Data Governance topics for major business leaders around the world.