Dr. Walid el Abed is the Founder President of Global Data Excellence. He is a worldwide renowned expert and visionary in the domains of Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Conversion, Metadata and Master Data Management.
For more than 12 years, Walid has defined and implemented data strategies within global organizations through data quality and data Governance implementations to achieve business process improvements. His frameworks and methodologies are unique, delivering tangible value from high quality data.
He is also a recognized international speaker and delivers training, seminars and conferences on Data Excellence from vision to value generation. Prior to founding Global Data Excellence, Walid was Business Excellence Manager at Nestlé headquarters, based in Switzerland.
Marc Vengadabady (Co-founder & Head of Services)
Marc co-founded Global Data Excellence and serves as Head of Services, responsible for professional services and customer support.
Prior to Global Data Excellence, Marc held several senior-executive roles in multinational companies like Come Computer, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems,
Thomson CSF, Cap Gemini.
He has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and his engineering experience encompasses both consulting services and product design.
In the last 10 years, Marc was involved in building enterprise-scale business intelligence and master data management solutions.
Kaveh Mossavati
Kaveh is the CFO of Global Data Excellence LTD. Kaveh Mossavati has been active as founder and entrepreneur in several corporations since 1995. Previously Kaveh has also held many director level positions at several multinational corporations.
Sylvain Siou (CTO)
Sylvain serves as Chief Technology Officer at Global Data Excellence, responsible for product management and engineering. During his 20 years plus career, Sylvain has held technical positions such as senior developer, software design architect, senior consultant before sucessfully moving to managerial positions such as CIO for media company or head of pre-sales at a major cloud computing company.
Niels C. Bogstad (Director of Global Sales)
Niels has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry. Starting with technical positions and later moving on to sales, marketing and general management functions in major corporations such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Sybase, Business Objects and Trillium. Niels holds a Masters Degree in Electronics from the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands.