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Directors and Advisors

Christian Walenta
Christian Walenta, IAIDQ President
Christian lives in New York state in the USA and is a founding member of the IAIDQ Board. He has held a variety of positions with IBM in Germany, the UK and the USA.
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John Talburt
Prof. John Talburt, IAIDQ Advisor
John is Acxion Chair of Information Quality at the University of Little Rock, Arkansas USA. John has served as an advisor to the IAIDQ board since 2007.
[Advisor position description]
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Lwanga Yonke
Lwanga Yonke, IAIDQ Advisor
Lwanga was born in Cameroon and now lives in California USA. Lwanga has served as an advisor to the IAIDQ board since its foundation in 2004. He chairs the program committee of the IDQ Conference, as he has done since they began in 2007.
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Hazbleydi Cervera Verástegui
Hazbleydi Cervera Verástegui, Director of Information Services
Hazbleydi lives in Bogotá Colombia, Colombia where she leads the Data Governance Program at Carbones del Cerrejon LLC, the world's largest export open pit coal mining located in La Guajira, in the northeastern part of Colombia. She joined the IAIDQ board in 2011.
[Director of Information Services position description]
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Piyush Malik
Piyush Malik, Director of Partner Relations
Piyush lives in Silicon Valley, California USA and has served IAIDQ as convenor of the Ask-the-Expert forum from 2007-2008, and as board member since 2009. Following his university training in Delhi, he now has an international role with IBM Global Services.
[Director of Partner Relations position description]
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Heather Richards
Heather Richards, Director of Publicity
Heather lives in Victoria, British Columbia in Canada, where she works in the Data Quality Department. Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). She has served on the IAIDQ Board since 2010.
[Director of Publicity position description]
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Grant Robinson
Grant Robinson, Director of Operations and webmaster
Grant lives in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, New South Wales Australia and is a founding member of the IAIDQ Board. He currently works for the NSW Office of Water, the agency responsible for managing water resources across the state.
[Director of Operations position description]
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Guilherme Rocha
Guilherme Rocha, Director of Events
Guilherme lives in Sao Paolo Brazil and is founder of the not-for-profit Grupo de Qualidade (Quality Group). Guilherme joined the IAIDQ board in 2011.
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Petra Collomb
Petra Collomb, Director of Member Services.
Petra lives in Boston MA, USA where she is a Director of Data Quality with PricewaterhouseCoopers Intl. Petra joined the IAIDQ board in 2011.
[Director of Member Services position description]
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Funso Kumolu
Funso Kumolu, Secretary Treasurer.
Funso lives in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas, USA where he is a Data Quality Analyst with McKesson Corporation. Funso joined the IAIDQ board in 2011.
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