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Directors and Advisors

Christian Walenta
Christian Walenta, IQCP, 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
John Talburt, PhD, IQCP, IAIDQ Advisor
John is a Professor of Information Science and the Director of the Information Quality Graduate Program at the University of Little Rock, Arkansas USA. John has served as an advisor to the IAIDQ Board since 2007.
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Lwanga Yonke
Lwanga Yonke, IQCP, 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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Frank Block
Frank Block, Director of Information Services
Frank lives in Lausanne Switzerland and is CEO and founder of FinScore S.A., a provider of software and professional services. Frank joined the IAIDQ board in 2012.
[Director of Information Services position description]
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Piyush Malik
Piyush Malik, IQCP, 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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Simone Molenaar
Simone Molenaar, Director of Marketing
Simone lives in Utrecht, Netherlands, where she runs her own businesses which support education and business intelligence. She has served on the IAIDQ Board since 2012.
[Director of Marketing 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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Tom Breur
Tom Breur, IQCP, Director of Events
Tom lives in Tilburg in the Netherlands and is principal of XLNT Consulting, which focusses on improving data quality, extracting more value from existing data and Business Intelligence skills transfer. Tom joined the IAIDQ board in 2012.
[Director of events position description]
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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.
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Funso Kumolu
Funso Kumolu, IQCP, 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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