Mr. Yorgen Edholm is a seasoned Silicon Valley veteran, well respected as a visionary in the Business Intelligence market space, with over 24 years of enterprise software expertise. He is currently the President and CEO of Accellion, Inc. a developer of enterprise solutions for email attachment management. Prior to joining Accellion, he was President and CEO of analytical applications company Decision Point Applications. Before Decision Point, Edholm co-founded Brio Software, and during 12 years as CEO took the company public, growing the firm to over $150 million in revenue with more than 700 employees and a customer base exceeding 5,000 organizations.
Trained as a concert violinist, Mr. Edholm has also earned an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Masters in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Mr. Bharath Kadaba is VP of Product Development at Intuit. Before that he was VP of Media Engineering, at
Yahoo. Bharath joined Yahoo in June '04.
Before joining Yahoo, Bharath was Vice President and General Manager at Siebel Systems between October '01 and May '04. In this role, he has spearheaded a team of people across various groups within Siebel and its many partners to create and bring to market the Universal Application Network Product.
Prior to joining Siebel, Bharath was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Managed Application Services at AritaSoft. Bharath spent two years at this enterprise Application Service Provider startup and was responsible for building and managing the engineering, operations and customer support functions. From March '99 to September '99, he was the President, Chief operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering and Services at Tristrata, Inc., an Internet security company.
From February '96 to March '99 Bharath worked at News Corporation, in various roles where his last position was President of the News Internet Services business unit and was responsible for creating a 10M$ unit. From October '94 to February '96, Bharath was Executive Vice President at Delphi Internet Service, an Internet based online service, where he was involved in building the company's pioneering Internet Technology based infrastructure.
Prior to this, Bharath spent 14 years at International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM"), primarily at the T.J. Watson Research Center. Bharath has a Ph. D. in Computer Networks from the University of Hawaii. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a MS degree in Computers and Control from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.
Mr. Atique Shah is an executive known for turning enterprises customer-centric by architecting emerging frameworks and building the supporting technology infrastructure that supports such complex undertakings.
Shah is a leader in adopting advanced customer analytics as a strategic tool and has helped various well known companies grow and fully capture the true potential of their customers.
Atique Shah, most recently served as Vice President CRM and Technology Solutions at Churchill Downs, home of the famous Kentucky Derby. He spearheaded the strategy, design, architecture, development and rollout phases of a multi-tier consumer marketing initiative. Atique formulated the CRM strategy and was responsible for the technical foundation required to better identify service and market to CDI’s customers.
Prior to joining CDI Atique led an enterprise-wide customer marketing initiative for GSI Commerce, a leading e-commerce solution provider. As a result of the design, architecture and execution of its CRM systems, GSI won the prestigious 2003 Gartner CRM Excellence Award.
Atique has also implemented a league-wide customer relationship program at the NBA with customer analytics focusing on fan profitability and retention. Furthermore he also developed a unified customer communications strategy and put into place various retention and conversion techniques at Uproar.com, part of the Flipside Network.
He has various degrees and advanced certifications in the marketing and technology fields, Atique Shah is a graduate of Wittenberg University. He holds a Master's degree in business administration with a focus on international marketing and operations management from St. Thomas Aquinas University, in addition to Direct Marketing course work at New York University.
