[Acm-announce] ACM Meeting This Thursday 03/15/2012

[Stephen Liang]

The below is a bio for our speaker tonight. Please come!

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Rich Holada
Vice President, Predictive Analytics
IBM Software Group

Rich Holada heads IBM’s predictive analytics group, which includes the SPSS
line of
software and solutions. Holada is responsible for setting the strategic and
technological
direction of the group, as well as overseeing its day-to-day operations,
from global
product development to sales and marketing. With Business Analytics as a
key growth
area for IBM, Holada is focused on helping customers solve real-world
business
problems through predictive analytics to create a Smarter Planet.

Previously, Holada was CTO of predictive analytics that included global
responsibility for
product marketing, product strategy, research and development, and
technical support
for the IBM SPSS predictive analytics brand. He joined SPSS, prior to its
acquisition by
IBM, in November 2006 as Senior Vice President of Research & Development,
bringing
with him nearly 20 years of deep software research and development
background and
diverse experience in the technology industry.

Previously, Holada has held senior level posts with Oracle Corporation and
PeopleSoft,
Inc., both leading CRM technology organizations. At PeopleSoft, Inc. he was
the senior
technical executive responsible for creating the industry-leading
PeopleSoft CRM
product offering.

Holada has also held senior research and development positions at Trimark
Technologies, Inc., where he transformed the firm from a consulting
operation to a
software product company, as well as at Intelligent Trading Systems, Inc.
and Sun
Microsystems, Inc.

Holada received his B.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois,
Champaign,
and his Juris Doctorate from John Marshall Law School in Chicago,
graduating cum
laude with honors.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:04, Stephen Liang <sliang6 at uic.edu> wrote:

> There will be a general ACM Meeting this Thursday featuring guest speaker Rich
> Holada, CTO Predictive Analytics, from IBM's SPSS Brand.
>
> SEO 1000
> Thursday, 03/15/2012 - 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
> Free Pizza & Pop
>
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