Presenters
Joe Panettieri, Contributing Editor, InfoWorld
As a seasoned event host and award-winning journalist, Joe has moderated
more than 200 executive summits and conferences across North America and
Europe. He also blogs live from prominent conferences, and he has earned
exclusive interviews with Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Cisco CEO John
Chambers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and other technology vanguards.
When not moderating events for InfoWorld, Joe oversees Web 2.0 content
initiatives for Nine Lives Media Inc., and has held a variety of top editorial posts in technology media companies.
Sharon Glave Frazee, PhD, Vice President, Health Informatics, CHD Meridian HealthcareDr. Frazee is responsible for informatics operations at CHD Meridian which include health outcomes studies, research and development for analytic products, predictive modeling, data mining and advanced statistical analysis. Dr. Frazee also provides strategic direction for the company’s Productive Health Informatics business, continually building the company’s informatics service offerings and providing the quantitative analysis needed to support other company strategic initiatives.
Dr. Frazee has an earned doctorate from North Carolina State University. Her areas of expertise include statistics, research methods, predictive modeling, and epidemiology. Dr. Frazee has done extensive research in health care as well as in various arenas of human behavior.
Dr. Frazee joined CHD Meridian as Vice President of Analytical and Statistical Operations in July 2004. Prior to this, she held similar positions at Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) and Landacorp (now a SHPS company). Prior to entering the private-sector health care arena in 2000, Dr. Frazee was an instructor at NC State University and provided evaluation research for various state and local government agencies.
Her achievements include the design and implementation of a HEDIS and disease management web-based support tool, development of new predictive models for disease states and complications related to these diseases, models to ascertain the value of treatment protocols for persons with HIV and other diseases, and the evaluation of treatment and intervention programs for inmates incarcerated by the State of North Carolina. She has also authored and co-authored numerous research articles, book chapters and white papers in the areas of health care, statistics, sociology and criminology.
Dr. Frazee provides consultation for numerous clients on the evaluation of health and wellness programs, the impact of benefit design on population health, and population-based analysis
Jeanne Harris, co-author of Competing on Analytics
Jeanne Harris is Executive Research Fellow and Director of Research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business where she leads research in the areas of information, technology and strategy.
She is the co-author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), which explains how high-performance businesses are building competitive strategies around data-driven insights that are generating impressive business results.
During her thirty years at Accenture, Harris has consulted to a wide variety of organizations in many different industries worldwide. She has led Accenture’s business intelligence, analytics, performance management, knowledge management, and data warehousing consulting practices. She has worked extensively with clients seeking to improve their managerial information, decision-making, analytical and knowledge management capabilities.
Ms. Harris leads an ongoing major research study examining how enterprise systems enable analytical decision making, contribute to distinctive capabilities and drive high performance. Other recent research topics include talent management analytics, managing business processes analytically, predicting consumer preferences, the implications of alternative value models on corporate strategy, the link between IT and business value, automated decision-making, IT implications of managing intangible assets, information worker productivity, improving managerial performance, knowledge management, business intelligence, building analytic capabilities, customer relationship management, customer-centric strategies, mobile personalization and solutions. She speaks frequently on these topics to executive audiences.
Ms. Harris's work has been published in numerous business publications, including Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. Her research has been quoted extensively by the international business press, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Forbes Magazine, CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine, Computerworld and Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Mark Moorman, Technology Strategist, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, SAS
Mark Moorman is an expert on the data integration and data modeling issues that often burden IT executives. As Advisor to the Office of the CTO, which acts as a technical resource and advisor in peer-to-peer discussions with executives in IT organizations, Mark provides leadership and insight with regard to data and application integration at the enterprise level. In support of the company’s mission to provide integrated solutions for wide-ranging business applications on a single platform, SAS®9, Mark contributes thought leadership, industry expertise and best practices to inform customer implementations.
In his former role as Vice President of SAS’ Financial Services Practice, Mark Moorman led a team responsible for delivering software solutions that address the critical needs of banks (retail and commercial) and asset management firms (retail and institutional), as well as card services, wealth management and insurance companies. These needs range from combating fraud and money laundering to managing enterprise risk and improving marketing efforts.
Previously, Moorman was a software development manager of warehouse solutions, where he oversaw a team that developed extraction transformation and loading routines to build data warehouse solutions from packaged applications like SAP, Oracle Apps, Siebel and more. A key campaign of the team was designing an integrated architecture to help facilitate the ease of deployment and integration between solutions.
Moorman joined SAS in 1987 as management information services supervisor of operations. Prior to that, he worked in MIS at Durham Life Insurance.
Moorman holds a bachelor of the arts degree in English from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.