Dr. Prashanth H Southekal is the Managing Principal of DBP-Institute, a Data Analytics Consulting and Education company. He brings over 20 years of Information Management experience from companies such as SAP AG, Shell, Apple, P&G, SAS and General Electric. In addition, he has trained over 1000 professionals world over in Analytics, Data Products, and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). He sits on the Advisory board of SAS (Western Canada) and Grihasoft (India). He is the author of the book - Data for Business Performance and Analytics Best Practices. He is an adjunct faculty of Data Analytics at University of Calgary (Canada) and IE Business School (Spain). He holds a PhD from ESC Lille (France) and MBA from Kellogg School of Management (United States).