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Big Data, Big Analytics: Emerging Business Intelligence and Analytic Trends for
Today's Businesses. Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers and Ambiga Dhiraj.
© 2013 Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers and
Ambiga Dhiraj. Published 2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Michael Minelli is a sales and marketing expert with over 16 years of
experience in the business analytics solutions space. Currently, he is Vice
President of Sales and Global Alliances, Information Services for MasterCard
Advisors, where he is responsible for leading sales and strategic alliances that
monetize MasterCard’s data assets. MasterCard data assets encompass 1.8 billion cards, representing 34 million merchants in 210 countries and territories.
Prior to MasterCard Advisors, Minelli led Revolution Analytics’ sales team.
He was responsible for both new business development and strategic alliances
for the firm’s software and services offerings supporting the Open Source
R project.
Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, Minelli built his foundation and
expertise in analytic solution sales and marketing as he served as a Sales
Director and Global Account Manager at SAS. During his 11 years in multiple
roles at SAS, he built an extremely successful track record selling large-scale
analytic projects associated with customer intelligence, risk management,
supply chain, and finance.
Prior to joining SAS, he was a sales executive at MMS, a start-up ERP and
business intelligence firm (MMS was acquired in 1999 by AMOS).
Big Data, Big Analytics is Michael Minelli’s second book. He is also the
coauthor of Partnering with the CIO: The Future of IT Sales Seen Through the Eyes
of Key Decision Makers ( John Wiley & Sons, 2007).
Michael holds a BA in Marketing from Pace University.
Michele Chambers holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Nova Southeastern University and an MBA from Duke University. She is an entrepreneurial executive with 25 years of technology experience. Ms. Chambers was
formerly the General Manager and Vice President of Big Data analytics at
IBM. Her team was responsible for working with customers to fully exploit
the IBM Big Data platform including the IBM Netezza appliance via scalable,
high performance advanced analytics on IBM Netezza’s parallel computing
platform. Ms. Chambers was responsible for guiding the vision, strategy, sales,
and go-to-market strategy for IBM Netezza Analytics. Her passion is helping
companies identify new areas to apply analytics, especially optimization, that
drive high business value and create sustainable differentiation in the market.
Ms. Chambers has a strong focus on results and growth. She has successfully launched several lines of businesses, including the Advanced Analytic
Solutions at Netezza, which drove $80 million in revenue in just six months.

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Additionally, she successfully built a packaged SAP solutions business resulting in over $10 million revenue in the first year and an early supply chain
execution software business.
In her spare time, Ms. Chambers, who is a single mother, loves to show
her precocious tween the world and challenge him to make the world a better
place by applying his mathematical talents to solve real-world problems.
Ambiga Dhiraj is the Head of Client Delivery for Mu Sigma. Mu Sigma is
a leading provider of decision sciences and analytics solutions, helping companies institutionalize data-driven decision making. During her career at Mu
Sigma, Ambiga has led Mu Sigma’s delivery teams to solve high impact business problems in the areas of Marketing, Supply Chain and Risk Analytics
for market-leading companies across multiple verticals. With experience in
computer engineering, research, and consulting, she has enabled Mu Sigma
to integrate math, business, and technology in a unique manner to develop
innovative solutions in the area of decision sciences.

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