Speaker Biographies II-SDV 2012
Beaucamp, Patrice
Patrick Beaucamp is founder of the Vanilla project, the only true Open Source Business Intelligence Platform, and Ceo of Bpm-Conseil, the company behind the Vanilla project. With almost 20 years experience in the BI area, with participation in the early 1990s with Cognos PowerPlay & Impromptu launch in West Europe, Patrick is leading the Vanilla project to success and recognition. The Vanilla project was recently rewarded by independent analysts as one of the Top 10 successful French Open Source Projects (April 09), and as a major competitor of SAP Business Object, IBM Cognos and Microstrategy platforms (November 09), while Bpm-Conseil was awarded as one of the three major French innovative player in IT and one of the 100 companies to watch in Europe by RedHerring in June 2010.
Recently, Patrick was a co-writer of the Best selling Book "Bpm HandBook 2010", with a specific chapter on Open Source Bi & Bpm integration.
Bradford, Roger
Roger Bradford is Technical Director of the Semantic Processing Practice at Agilex Technologies Inc. In 2010, Agilex was recognized as the Hottest Emerging Government Contractor by the Northern Virginia Technology Council and as the Fastest Growing Company for 2010 by the Washington Business Journal. Mr Bradford has over twenty years experience in information retrieval and thirteen years experience in the application of semantic processing techniques. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and a Master's Degree in Mathematics. He also holds six patents in the field of semantic processing. Prior to joining Agilex, Mr Bradford was a Technical Fellow at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he worked for 20 years. While at SAIC he was twice the winner of the annual Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. Mr Bradford has an international reputation in information retrieval and data mining. He has presented invited talks in these areas at numerous technical conferences in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, and Australia.
Butler, Alexander
Alex is an Executive Vice President at IPVision, Inc. a technology and patent analytics consulting firm originating from MIT’s Media Lab and Sloan School of Management. At IPVision, Alex helps clients incorporate the valuable perspectives of patent and IP rights into strategy, research, commercialisation and business investment processes and decisions.
Alex’s experience includes senior executive positions in early and growth stage businesses with responsibilities for operations, business development, marketing and strategy at such firms as Information Holdings (IHI) and Thomson Reuters.
His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in international service from The American University in Washington, DC and an MBA focused on System Design and Executive Leadership from Villanova. He is active in the leadership of the high technology sector of the Licensing Executives Society, a faculty member for the IP Zone and National Knowledge & IP Management Taskforce, recognised as of the world’s top 250 IP strategists by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine, and a Fellow in the International IP Strategists Association.
Alex’s experience includes senior executive positions in early and growth stage businesses with responsibilities for operations, business development, marketing and strategy at such firms as Information Holdings (IHI) and Thomson Reuters.
His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in international service from The American University in Washington, DC and an MBA focused on System Design and Executive Leadership from Villanova. He is active in the leadership of the high technology sector of the Licensing Executives Society, a faculty member for the IP Zone and National Knowledge & IP Management Taskforce, recognised as of the world’s top 250 IP strategists by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine, and a Fellow in the International IP Strategists Association.
Christoff, Konstantin
Konstantin is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Sensika. Prior to co-launching Sensika, Konstantin was the CEO and co-founder of two innovative start-ups - Favit network and Interactive media. Both of them are a new breed web start-ups, developing disruptive technologies in the space of interest-centric cross-platform information processing and distribution. Prior to that, he served as the VP of Marketing and Sales, European mainland markets at Wizcom – one of the largest technology companies of South Eastern Europe, now owned by VM Ware.
His professional carrier started back in 1997 at the US National Chemsearch and continued at the Operations and Data processing department of Citigroup. He holds a Management Diploma from the University of World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Eman, Jay Van
Jay Ven Eman has been with Access Innovations since late 1978. He has been active in all aspects of its business. He has overseen Access' database production services where he was responsible for the design and conversion of large, legacy databases for a variety of government and commercial organisations. He writes, gives workshops, consults and helps build large-scale, complex, information rich databases. He has presented papers and workshops at ASIS&T, SLA, ASIDIC, InternetWorld, Online - London, AGSI - Netherlands, and many others. Before joining Access, he worked for the University of New Mexico at the Technology Applications Center, operated under a contract from NASA. He specialised in technology transfer and information dissemination of space technology to the commercial arena. He received his PhD. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
François, Patrice
Patrice François is co-founder and Associate Director at Digimind, one of the fastest growing companies in the field of intelligence software. For the last twelve years Patrice has been running the worldwide operations and contributed to expand the company in the European and American markets. Patrice graduated in information systems management from the Grenoble business school in France.
Grefenstette, Gregory
Dr Gregory Grefenstette is Chief Science Officer at Exalead.He received his BS from Stanford University in 1978, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1993. He has been Principal Scientist at the Xerox Research Centre (1993-2001), with Clairvoyance (2001-3) and at the French applied research centre, the CEA (2001-8). His research interests range from most subjects in Natural Language Processing to all aspects of Information Retrieval. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for Natural Language Engineering, and he edited the first book on Cross Language Information Retrieval (Kluwer 1998).
Hill, Laurent
Laurent Hill received an MSc in software engineering from UNSA (University of Nice) in 1987. He worked as a research assistant at INRIA and EPFL. In 1991, he was one of the founders of Connexité, an INRIA spin-off developing automatic parallelisation tools for the high performance computing market. In 1994, when Connexité was acquired by Simulog, a scientific computing software shop, Laurent Hill served as a R&D project manager for software tools. He then became manager of the Software Engineering department and member of Simulog's management board in 1996. He was the Esprit project coordinator for FITS and POST projects. In 2002, Laurent Hill joined Questel as the CTO and member of the management board, helping in turning the company around and focusing the R&D effort on advanced tools for Intellectual Property information management.
Hlava, Marjorie
Marjorie M.K. Hlava is President, Chairman and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. She is very well known in the international information arena. She is past president of NFAIS (2002-2003), the organisation of those who create, organise and distribute information. Ms. Hlava is past president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) - 1993 and the 1996 recipient of ASIS&T's prestigious Watson Davis Award, twice a member of the Board of Directors of SLA (formerly known as the Special Libraries Association), five year member of the Board of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), past President of the Board of Documentation Abstracts, and has held numerous committee and other positions in these and other organisations. She has published more than two hundred articles and books on information science topics. Marjorie has given countless presentations nationally and internationally, including keynote addresses most recently (12-2011) at the US Embassy - Swaziland for the Information Bureau and Invited Dignitaries. She has given workshops and lectures on thesaurus development, taxonomy creation, natural language processing, machine translations and machine aided indexing. Marjorie holds three patents. Her research areas include furthering the productivity of content creation and the governance layer for information access through automated indexing, thesaurus development, taxonomy creation, natural language processing, machine translations and machine aided indexing.
Hofmann-Apitius, Martin
Prof. Dr Martin Hofmann-Apitius studied Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Tuebingen (Germany). He holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and worked for more than 10 years in experimental molecular biology with a strong focus on genes and proteins that are responsible for the metastatic behavior of tumour cells. The outcome of his work has always been of practical use; for instance the finding of his PhD thesis, that variants of cell surface protein CD44 induce metastatic behavior in experimental tumour systems resulted in a patent and subsequent licensing of the IP by Boehringer Ingelheim.
The screening for novel genes involved in tumour metastasis lead him into the area of functional genomics and subsequently to applied bioinformatics. Martin Hofmann-Apitius has experience in both, academic (Research Centre Karslruhe (FZK); German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ)) and industrial research (BASF, Boehringer Ingelheim, LION bioscience). Since 2002 he is leading the Department of Bioinformatics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) in Sankt Augustin (Germany), a governmental non-profit research institute. In July 2006 he has been appointed as a Professor for Applied Life Science Informatics at Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT).
Current research in Martin Hofmann-Apitius´ group at Fraunhofer SCAI focuses on three different areas, namely
- information extraction in the life sciences
- in silico target validation and virtual screening
- distributed and high performance computing
Current work at SCAI is oriented towards development of software tools that address significant needs in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, namely the accessibility to all information relevant for drug discovery and drug development. In particular, the focus is now on information extraction tools that support mining in patents. The ultimate goal of SCAI in the area of patent mining is the development of methods for the automated generation of IP portfolios in the area of chemistry, biology and medicine.
Lagemaat, Willem Geert
Willem Geert Lagemaat (1972) is CEO of Lighthouse IP Group. After the technical university (HTS), Willem Geert joined Univentio in 1993 and was appointed CEO of Univentio in 1996. Univentio was originally founded by his father in 1952 and became one of the largest and leading patent data producers in the world. In 2005 the company was acquired by Reed Elsevier. In 2006 Willem Geert founded Lighthouse IP Group, a global information services and consulting firm that offers a distinctive blend of capabilities, bringing together Intellectual Property information expertise, Translation Services, Data Processing Services, as well as Virtual Employees, Outsourcing and Software Development. Currently Lighthouse IP Group has offices in nine countries worldwide and employs over 800 people globally. Since 2004 Willem Geert has also been President of PatCom, the association of commercial patent information service providers.
Lo, Siaw Ling
Siaw Ling is a Lecturer with School of Information Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore, teaching Data Structure and Algorithm, Object Oriented Programming and Bioinformatics and doing research in data mining. Her current focus is on mining knowledge from social media and researching on new frontier in search engine. Until 2005, she was the research assistant with Protein and Proteomics Centre of National University of Singapore and her research area is using machine learning methods to study protein-protein interaction and managing of the vast amount of proteomics data. She has published in various international peer reviewed journals, including Proteomics and FEBS Letters.
McLean, Stuart
Dr Stuart McLean is Domain Architect for Intellectual Property Product Development at LexisNexis in Dayton Ohio. During his 16 year tenure at LexisNexis he has worked on infrastructure, security and product development on a variety of projects including Lexis.com and TotalPatent. He graduated from Denison University and has graduate degrees from the University of Chicago in History and the University of Pittsburgh (PhD, Information Science).
Mayer, Daniel
Daniel Mayer is VP of Corporate Marketing at TEMIS, the leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions for the enterprise. In this capacity he is responsible for promoting, as well as shaping, the flagship Luxid product range and its roadmap with a particular focus on STM Publishing and Enterprise Information Management. Prior to joining TEMIS, Daniel served for the past 12 years in a variety of marketing and product strategy functions throughout the IT value chain. Daniel holds both a Masters degree in Business from HEC, France and a Masters in Computer Science from ENST, France.
Milward, David
Dr David Milward has over 20 years of experience in product development, consultancy and research in natural language processing. He is a co-founder of Linguamatics, and designed the I2E text mining system which uses a novel interactive approach to information extraction. He has been applying text mining to applications in the life sciences for more than 10 years, initially at SRI International. David has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was a researcher and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He has published in the areas of information extraction, spoken dialogue, parsing, syntax and semantics.
Newman, Nils C.
Nils Newman is the Director of New Business Development at Search Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. For nearly two decades, Mr. Newman has worked on the development of analytical tools to assist in the management of technology. His work focuses on the use of bibliographic and patent information in research evaluation, competitive intelligence, and strategic planning. Mr. Newman has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Technology and Science Policy from Georgia Tech. In his spare time, he is pursuing a PhD in Economics from UNU-MERIT at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands studying the economics of technical change.
Parry, Joseph
Joe has worked on visualization and graphics systems for intelligence work for the last thirteen years. During that time he has done software development, design, systems architecture and more experimental research projects. He has worked with the intelligence communities of the UK, US and other countries. His recent professional interests include social network analysis and web-based visualisation systems. This year he started his own software company which is producing what he hopes will be part of a new wave of investigation software.
Porter, Alan
Alan Porter is Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and of Public Policy, at Georgia Tech, where he remains Co-director of the Technology Policy and Assessment Center. He is author of some 220 articles and books, including Tech Mining (Wiley, 2005). Current research emphasizes R&D profiling & assessment, competitive technical intelligence, and forecasting of emerging technology innovation pathways. He is also Director of R&D for Search Technology, Inc., Norcross, GA, USA.
Rafols, Ismael
Dr Ismael Rafols is Research Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex. He has his PhD from Tohoku University in Japan. He has held Fellowships from the Ministry of Education, Japan; the EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship; and the Canon Europe Foundation. He and Alan Porter are currently co-investigators on a US National Science Foundation “Science of Science & Innovation Policy” award to study research knowledge integration and transfer.
Ravi, Kalpana
is working as an Intellectual Property Analyst in the IP&S Division of PHILIPS, Bangalore. Kalpana holds a Masters Degree in system science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science from Bangalore. She is interested in sustainability and global warming topics and patenting regarding the same, valuation of patents and also bottom of the pyramid studies. She has worked in data processing and signal processing algorithms for radar applications and software development for the same in the past.
Stembridge, Robert
Bob Stembridge graduated from the University of Sussex with a Chemistry degree. He joined Thomson Scientific in 1980 and has held various roles in editorial, marketing, sales and product development over the years. Leaving in 1988 for interludes working as an information analyst specialising in patent analytics at British Petroleum and European Sales Liaison with Dialog, he returned to Thomson Scientific in 1996 and most recently became Customer Relations Manager with responsibility for liaison with customer user groups for the organisation. He is a member of PIUG and PATMG and was recently PATMG Chairman.