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Michael is a serial entrepreneur who has built data platforms in life sciences, online retail, and digital media over the past decade. Michael began his career as a software engineer for Human Genome Project, and later founded CustomInk.com, an early pioneer in customized apparel. More recently, Michael conceived and led Dataspora, where he remains Chairman, helping deliver data science to telcos, insurance firms, and retail banks. Michael holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University. He enjoys speaking and writing about big data and analytics. @medriscoll | LinkedIn

Eric Tschetter is the lead architect of Druid, Metamarkets' distributed, in-memory database. He held senior engineering positions at Ning and LinkedIn before joining Metamarkets. At LinkedIn, Eric productized LinkedIn's PYMK with Hadoop. He holds bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin, and a M.S. from the University of Tokyo in Computer Science. LinkedIn

Charlene brings over 15 years of leadership experience spanning sales, marketing, and business development. Prior to Metamarkets, she was Vice President of Business Planning at Oracle, ran sales operations at Siebel Systems and led product management at Doubletwist, a bioinformatics startup. She is passionate about helping people understand and make use of their data. Charlene holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. @charleneson | LinkedIn

Mike Repass has seven years of product management experience across Microsoft, Google, and most recently LinkedIn. While at Microsoft, Mike's work focused on the Common Language Runtime. At Google, Mike was the Product Manager for Google App Engine. After college, he lived in a van and rock climbed full-time, but the money ran out. Mike has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky. @mdrcode | LinkedIn

Most recently, Ken was Vice President of Product Marketing at MarkLogic where he drove simplified company and product positioning to increase market awareness. Previously, he held management and executive positions at several start-ups including Interlace Systems, a business and operational planning solution acquired by Oracle. Prior to Interlace, Ken held various product management positions at Siebel Systems. Ken's passion is bringing innovative solutions and technologies to market. He holds a B.S. from MIT, an M.S. from Wayne State University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. @kchestnut | LinkedIn