Prathibha Prabakaran is the Head of Enterprise Data Architecture and Interim Head of Enterprise Architecture for Voya Financial. In this role, she is accountable for the enterprise digital and data architecture roadmaps, architecture assurance and governance of Voya’s technology portfolio. She also supports the enterprise digital business strategy through the Enterprise Architecture function. Prior to her role leading Enterprise Data Architecture for Voya, Prathibha was VP of T. Rowe Price’s Global Distribution Technology organization. Prathibha led data/analytics development teams across all institutional and intermediary segments. She also led other marketing and sales enablement solution development for the Global Distribution organization. She oversaw architecture definition, technology selection, solution development and testing. Prathibha is a proven leader with more than 20 years of experience in managing diverse product portfolios and strategies, and in working closely with business partners to drive software innovation. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business, master’s degree in Computer Science, as well as an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Richard Soundy is an independent consultant specializing in advising providers and consumers of data warehousing technologies to optimize product offerings and deployments. Before embarking on his consulting business in 2015, Richard was Director at SAP with responsibility for the SAP Enterprise Systems Group. He joined SAP through its acquisition of Sybase, and spent 24 years in total with the two companies, focusing on the SAP ASE and SAP IQ database / datawarehousing solutions with roles in engineering, marketing, business development, and evangelism.

Before joining Yellowbrick, Mark was Vice President for Data and Analytics at Teradata, where he led a variety of product management and technology teams in data warehouse and advanced analytics groups.

He was also Chief Architect of Teradata’s IoT Analytics effort. Mark joined Teradata in 2014 when Teradata acquired the startup RainStor, where he was a co-founding developer and Chief Architect. Prior to RainStor, Mark was a lead scientist in the UK Ministry of Defence.

Mark holds a Ph.D. in computational physics from Newcastle University, UK, with a thesis centered on discovering the electronic and non-linear optical properties of quantum dots. As a research fellow at Newcastle, he developed new techniques to model these novel quantum structures using large-scale parallel and distributed computing approaches.