SuperData Summit Speakers

Mike Alfred

Co-Founder and CEO, BrightScope

BrightScope is a financial information company that brings transparency to opaque markets through independent research and analysis. Delivered through web-based software, BrightScope data drives better decision-making for individual investors, corporate plan sponsors, asset managers, broker-dealers, and financial advisors.

The BrightScope Rating, developed in partnership with leading independent 401Kfiduciaries, reviews more than 200 unique data inputs per plan and calculates a single numerical score which defines plan quality at the company level.

In April 2011, the company launched BrightScope Advisor Pages, the first comprehensive and publicly available directory of financial advisors designed to help consumers discover information and conduct due diligence on wealth management professionals.

BrightScope also markets a suite of data analytics software products to Fortune 1000 companies, asset managers, broker-dealers, financial advisors, and other market participants. Public ratings for more than 55,000 retirement plans as well as rating definitions, criteria and methodologies, and information on more than 450,000 financial advisors are available for free at www.brightscope.com.

William K. Geppert

President and CEO San Diego Regional EDC

Since July 2011, Bill Geppert leads San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation as President and CEO. Bill retired in February 2011 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cox Communications' San Diego system, which he led since 1996.

Serving more than 1 million customers throughout 19 communities and employing 2,100 individuals in the San Diego region, Cox Communications, a privately owned company, is the largest telecommunications company in Southern California.

Geppert chairs The San Diego Foundation's Our Greater San Diego Vision and Mayor Jerry Sanders's Civic Leadership Agenda. He is a Laureate for Junior Achievement of San Diego and is on the board of directors for the Holiday and Poinsettia Bowl games. He is a board member of The Campanile Foundation, supporting San Diego State University, Sharp Healthcare, and The San Diego Foundation.

Geppert is past chairman of San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation for two terms (2002 and 2008), the American Heart Walk 2003, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, and the California Cable & Telecommunications Association. In 2001, he was honored by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association with the Vanguard Award, the industry's highest honor, for his leadership and service to the community. In 2002, he received the Starcom Award as San Diego's Businessperson of the Year by the San Diego Business Journal and was recognized in 2003 as the YMCA Civic Leader of the Year.

Christine Kretz

Healthcare Solutions Executive - IBM Watson Solutions (IBM Corp.)

Christine Kretz is the Solutions Executive for Heatlhcare for IBM's new Watson Solutions Division. Christine works with IBM's partners in the healthcare space to outline use cases where Watson's unique capabilities will add value for healthcare providers, payers and patients.

Prior to joining the Watson team, Christine worked in IBM's global Healthcare Industry team working with IBM's largest healthcare clients to help bring solutions and technology to help them to better meet their needs, leveraging their data and information for better outcomes and cost effective operations. She served on the steering committee for the Center for Connected Medicine with partners including UPMC and Alcatel-Lucent, helping to create a place where healthcare leaders can collaborate to promote new healthcare models—integrating information technologies, health records and devices into a seamless environment that puts patients at the center of care.

Her IBM career has included roles in the Life Sciences organization and healthcare sales. She began her career in IBM Research as a manager of IT operations for the division. Prior to joining IBM, Christine worked as a healthcare provider. A certified paramedic, she was Trauma Coordinator for UPMC Children's Hospital and affiliate faculty of the Center for Emergency Medicine.

John E. Mattison, M.D.

John E. Mattison, M.D. Chief Medical Information Officer/Assistant Medical Director, Kaiser-Permanente, Southern California

John built his first electronic health record in 1984 and joined Kaiser Permanente in 1989. He was named Assistant Medical Director and Chief Medical Information Officer at Kaiser in 1992.

He has built, designed, or implemented seven different EHR systems, most recently KP HealthConnect. His team helped build and deploy the first highly scalable version of this system, which today stands as the largest private sector implementation of an EHR in the US. John was director of the largest regional deployment, encompassing 5,000 physicians, 140 clinics, 13 hospitals, and 2.3 million members, and he is quick to identify his many colleagues within KP who have provided support, resources and skills necessary for such a monumental achievement.

Kaiser Permanente has been recognized as the uncontested leader for both outpatient and inpatient automated systems, leading the country for hospitals awarded with the top HIMSS level 7 designation. In 2011, 6 of the hospitals in SCAL region, and 12 KP hospitals nationally were recognized among the top 118 "Most Connected Hospitals" by US News and World Report.

John has actively shaped a culture of extremely rapid issue escalation and resolution that became the single most critical success factor for this large scale and pioneering project. He was also one of the founding members of the IMIA Workgroup on Organizational Aspects of Informatics, which focuses on the cultural change management required to successfully transform cultures with new technology. KPHC also includes the largest and most active use of Personal Health Records (PHRs) in the nation. Over 60% of Kaiser's eligible members use the PHR portal. The system carries over 25,000 secure emails daily with patients.

John has been intimately engaged in the development and deployment of international interoperability standards. He founded an independent Standards Development Organization (SDO) to introduce XML into Healthcare, and later brought that SDO and that work into HL7.

He has directed the KP team in the National Health Information Network project between KP, the Veterans Administration, and the Department of Defense, which began production exchange of documents in San Diego in late 2009. He has a strong commitment to ensuring that security policies and practices effectively protect patient privacy and has been a active in various state and national initiatives in this arena. Recently, he was appointed to both the Policy Task Force for Cal eConnect, and the Privacy Steering Committee for the California State efforts to build a statewide health information exchange.

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D.

President of KDnuggets

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D. is the President of KDnuggets, which provides research and consulting services in business analytics and data mining. Previously, he led data mining groups at GTE Laboratories, Knowledge Stream Partners, and Xchange.

He has extensive experience in applying analytic methods to many areas including customer modeling, healthcare data analysis, fraud detection, bioinformatics, and web analytics, and worked for a number of leading banks, insurance companies, telcos, and pharmaceutical companies.

Gregory is also the Editor of KDnuggets™ News, the leading newsletter on analytics and data mining, and the Editor of KDnuggets.com site, a top-ranked website for analytics and data mining, covering news, software, jobs, companies, courses, education, publications and more. Gregory coined the terms "KDD" and "Knowledge Discovery in Data" when he organized and chaired the first three workshops on KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) in 1989, 1991, 1993. These workshops later grew into KDD Conferences (www.kdd.org), currently the leading conference in the field. Gregory was also a founding editor of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal.

Gregory is a co-founder of ACM SIGKDD, the leading professional organization for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and was elected as the Chair of SIGKDD (2005-2009). He is also serving on the Steering Committee of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. Gregory received the ACM SIGKDD Service Award (2000) and IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award (2007). He has over 60 publications, including 2 best-selling books and several edited collections on topics related to data mining and knowledge discovery.

Robert Sinkovits

Applications Lead for SDSC's Gordon Project

Robert Sinkovits is the Applications Lead for the Gordon project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center where he has responsibility for ensuring that data intensive applications can make effective use of this unique system.

He holds a Ph.D. in Physics and has nearly 20 years of experience in high performance computing collaborating with scientists and engineers in a wide range of fields. He is also the primary developer of two image reconstruction packages used in structural biology to study particles with icosahedral and helical symmetries.