Michael Belakhov – Country Manager, Australia
Michael has over 27 years’ experience in the Asia Pacific IT industry in management, marketing, consulting and technical roles dealing with information management issues and solutions. Prior to joining MIP, Michael provided direction as a thought leader in Enterprise Information Management, Business Intelligence and Analytics for a number of global organisations including SAS and Business Objects, as well as running his own BI consulting company. In his current role, Michael is responsible for managing the Australian operations of MIP. A key component of this role is working with staff and clients to demonstrate how organisations can best exploit their Information investment to gain distinct competitive advantages in increasingly smaller global marketplaces. It is Michael’s depth of experience in this region’s information management, business intelligence and analytics industry – its issues, solutions and challenges – that marks him as an authority regularly sought for comment by client organisations and the media.
Guru Sankar – Chief Technology Officer
Guru Sankar is the CTO for MIP, he has 17 years’ experience in the IT Industry, with 8 of those at MIP. Guru literally is a “guru” with all the name implies. He is an extremely well versed in all the technical aspects of architecting, designing and building data warehouses and business intelligence solutions, with experience in almost all technologies, architectures and methodologies for delivering these types of solutions. Guru is Australia’s leading expert in WhereScape RED and leads the MIP technical team to get the best out the technology for MIP Customers. Interestingly Guru was an early pioneer of the Microsoft Solution Designer Program and was one of the first 1000 in the world to become a Certified MCSD (Microsoft Solution Designer).
Steve Hitchman – MIP Group Managing Director
Steve is a renowned and leading authority in the Data Warehousing Industry and an innovator and visionary in his field, leading MIP to bring new approaches and technologies to solve the challenges of Information Management. With over 20 years’ in depth experience in delivering successful Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions, Steve has considerable expertise in all aspects of the principles and practises, architectures and technologies required to deliver these solutions across a broad spectrum of client industries.