Mark Aretha, DataRobot
As Sales Director for the Great Lakes Region at DataRobot, Mark uses his 25 years of technology, sales, and management experience to help clients leverage their data assets with automated predictive analytics and machine learning. He previously filled a similar role for IBM Corporation as part of the Big Data & Analytics team. Before its acquisition by IBM, Mark ran Netezza's Healthcare and Life Sciences Sales for the central United States. He has served in various sales and management roles at Salion, Microstrategy, SAS, and ADP. Mark earned his BBA from The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
David Knox, MicroStrategy
David Knox is the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Engineering at MicroStrategy. He brings over 20 years of IT sales experience to his work at MicroStrategy, where he leads worldwide sales engineering efforts, drives technical sales-readiness, and promotes best practices, training, and productivity across the analytics, mobility, security, and services product lines.
Jordan Martz, Attunity
Jordan Martz is the Director of Technology Solutions at Attunity, a leading provider of data integration and data management software. In this role, Jordan works closely with both the alliances team and the product management team at Attunity with Big Data/Hadoop, IoT and cloud solutions.
Ben Snively, Amazon Web Services
Ben Snively is a specialist solutions architect on the Amazon Web Services public sector team, where he specializes in big data, analytics, and AI/ML. Previously, Ben was an engineer and architect on DoD, IC and Federal contracts, where he worked with Hadoop and big data solutions. He has over 13 years of experience creating analytical systems. Ben holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master’s in computer engineering from University of Central Florida.