Solix Technologies, Inc.

As Vice President at Solix Technologies, I lead strategic initiatives that drive the company’s mission to provide innovative data management solutions. With a focus on enabling enterprises to unlock the value of their data, I oversee a dynamic team that develops and implements cutting-edge solutions in areas such as data archiving, data governance, and compliance. 

A key area of focus is our Solix Enterprise AI product, which leverages advanced machine learning and AI-driven analytics to help organizations optimize their data workflows and improve operational efficiency. By enabling smarter, data-driven decisions, Enterprise AI empowers businesses to unlock deeper insights, streamline processes, and drive innovation. 

My role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to foster business growth, enhance customer satisfaction, and ensure operational excellence while positioning Solix as the leader in the data management industry.

VP of Sales

Solix Technologies is a leading provider of comprehensive data management solutions, empowering enterprises to efficiently manage, protect, and unlock the full value of their data. With a focus on innovation and scalability, Solix offers a suite of powerful products designed to address the evolving needs of modern organizations. 

Our Enterprise AI product harnesses the power of machine learning and advanced analytics to optimize data workflows, improve decision-making, and drive operational efficiency. The Enterprise Archiving solution helps businesses manage massive volumes of data while ensuring compliance, cost savings, and seamless retrieval. Additionally, our Data Lake product enables organizations to store, integrate, and analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, supporting advanced analytics and AI-driven insights. 

Proven over two decades in the industry, Solix is a leader in Enterprise Data Management and AI, helping organizations transform their data into a strategic asset for growth and innovation.

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SION

SION is a leader in the technology/software industry for international logistics. Our software demonstrates that the future of logistics is in business analytics technology. SION's state-of-the-art software is easy to use, flexible, and highly scalable, adapting to a supply chain’s changing management needs. With SION companies can stay in tune with technological advancements through its agile end-to-end digital thread.

Assisting clients to make better decisions with dynamic real-time analysis, leveraging the latest technology by in-house data scientists. SION is especially beneficial for multinational businesses with its real-time supply and demand monitoring, delivery tracking, and more. is integrated into every corner of your business and enables you to make better decisions, achieve end-to-end visibility, and deliver best-in-class customer experiences. SION provides unparalleled reporting visibility, giving SCM a full picture of its total business and logistics with SION.

Oracle

Oracle Cloud is the first public cloud built from the ground up to be a better cloud for every application. By rethinking core engineering and systems design for cloud computing, Oracle created innovations that accelerate migrations, deliver better reliability and performance for all applications, and offer the complete services customers need to build innovative cloud applications.

OCI’s Cloud Adoption Framework helps organizations facilitate their transition to the cloud by offering a valuable collection of cloud resources, best practices, tutorials, and enablement tools. This framework helps customers define a robust cloud strategy, plan for successful workload migration, and ensure complete manageability of cloud environments. The Cloud Adoption Framework provides customers with a methodology to use Oracle Cloud built-in efficiencies such as Cloud Lift Services, and key-value programs, including Oracle Support Rewards.

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Enterprise Sales Director | Oracle Cloud

PERSTRADA

Perstrada specializes in the invention and development of specialty nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products and novel formulation technologies.
We provide formulation, analytical, and manufacturing services to nutraceutical and pharmaceutical companies, working collaboratively to provide innovative solutions to challenging drug delivery problems and to create advanced medicines.
FORMULATION:
Perstrada’s expertise involves finding the most effective method of drug delivery for poorly water-soluble molecules.  Our comprehensive range of capabilities enables clients to optimize their drug product formulation prior to initiating expensive clinical development. 
LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT AND 505(b)(2) PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT:
Perstrada is dedicated to the solubility and bioavailability enhancement of difficult-to-formulate compounds.  Our proprietary product development programs focus on creating novel specialty pharmaceutical products that are improved versions of existing medicines.  
MANUFACTURE OF cGMP CLINICAL TRIAL MATERIALS:
Following formulation selection and optimization, Perstrada can transition a development program quickly to cGMP manufacture of first-in-man clinical materials.  Perstrada’s manufacturing capabilities include dosage forms for oral, topical, or parenteral administration.

Rainmaker

As an Enterprise Sales Executive specializing in B2B, my primary role was to drive new business acquisition and revenue growth by identifying and engaging high-value enterprise prospects. A focus on understanding the specific challenges and goals of each client, working closely with them to craft customized software solutions that align with their business objectives. Building strong, consultative relationships with C-level executives, IT leaders, and key stakeholders, guiding them through the sales process with a clear focus on value proposition, ROI, and scalability. 

Leading the entire sales cycle, from prospecting and lead qualification to product demonstrations, negotiations, and closing multi-million-dollar deals. Balancing both strategic planning and tactical execution, my role was to consistently meet or surpass sales targets while delivering tailored solutions that drive long-term customer success and business transformation.

National Account Director

Bradford Technologies

For over 33 years, Bradford Technologies has been dedicated to producing innovative solutions for Valuation Professionals. Ranging from the most intuitive appraisal applications available to cutting-edge Computer-Aided Appraisal Software, Bradford continues to develop trailblazing products that set the benchmark for the industry.

Since 1987, Bradford Technologies has been dedicated to producing innovative solutions for Valuation Professionals. From the most intuitive appraisal applications available to cutting-edge Computer-Aided Appraising Software and statistically supported valuation reports, Bradford continues to develop trailblazing products that set the benchmark for the industry. As the market continues to evolve, Bradford Technologies is committed to providing appraisers, appraisal management companies and lenders with the tools they need to produce statistically accurate, reliable and transparent collateral valuations.

Bradford Technologies is one of the first companies to complete the EAD integration and the first to implement the new appraisal-sharing feature in UCDP. FHA has stated it will require appraisals to be submitted through EAD portal. PortalDirect allows its users to take advantage of the new appraisal-sharing functionality.

Sales Manager

A seasoned cloud data leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in enterprise strategy and business development. Developing partnerships to ensure organizations optimize their data management and leverage the power of AI, SaaS, database, and EDM solutions. A passion for innovation and transformation, and enjoy solving complex IT challenges with cutting-edge technology.

Founder and CEO of SION and PERSTRADA, two successful companies that offer cutting-edge software for international supply chain analytics and the pharmaceutical industry. Each business achieved growth from conception to 2X annually through strategic partnerships and industry-leading technology. Specializing in establishing long-term relationships with clients and partners across various verticals.

Building AI’s True Foundation

Excitement around AI is at an all-time high—but beneath the hype lies a fundamental truth: your AI project’s success or failure will depend entirely on your data.

Many companies leap straight into AI implementation without adequately preparing their data. The results? Misguided decisions, skewed analytics, and diminished trust.

To avoid this pitfall, every enterprise must prioritize:

Comprehensive Data Archiving: Secure, structured archiving ensures that historical data remains accurate, accessible, and compliant.

Robust Data Governance: Establish clear policies for data ownership, usage, and security. Governance isn't bureaucracy—it's your AI's compass.

Continuous Data Quality Management: Consistently cleanse, validate, and standardize data to eliminate inaccuracies that can derail AI insights.

Before investing further into AI tools or algorithms, confirm your foundational data management is rock-solid. Without high-quality, properly governed data, even the best AI solutions will falter.

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From Chaos to Clarity—Why Metadata is Your AI’s Best Friend

Let’s confront an inconvenient truth: Many organizations treat metadata as an afterthought. “Metadata” sounds dull—just “data about data,” right? But think of it as the Rosetta Stone that decodes your entire data empire so AI can speak its language. No metadata means your AI is stumbling in a dark room, bumping into untagged, misnamed, mismatched data at every turn.

Imagine walking into a library where all the books lie spine-down, titles hidden. You’d have to guess at content, open every book to find chapters, and pray you don’t flip through a page you shouldn’t. That’s your AI without meta frustrated, inefficient, and likely to give up entirely.

💡 Why metadata is a game-changer:

Discoverability: With rich metadata (descriptions, field definitions, usage notes), data scientists instantly locate the exact datasets they need. No more “Who owns this table?” or “What does field XYZ represent?” drama.

Trust: When data has provenance (who created it, when, why), you trust its origins. If your AI sees that data was certified by your analytics team just last week, it’s far more confident in using it than some random CSV floating around in someone’s desktop folder.

Efficiency: Metadata speeds up onboarding new team members. Instead of spending weeks hunting documentation, they have a searchable catalog that says exactly what lives where.

 ❓ Why do so many companies slap together data lakes, pat themselves on the back, then wonder why no one can actually find anything in them? Because they forgo metadata! They build a timid data swamp—deep, dark, and full of hidden perils.

Key Takeaway: If you want AI to run fast and right, invest in a metadata strategy that treats data like a well-organized library. Because without it, you’re handing your AI a chaotic warren where mistakes lurk behind every unlabeled corner.

Great Models Need Great Data More Than Ever

Advances in AI have given us powerful model architectures—deep learning networks, transformers, and more. Yet these state-of-the-art algorithms can’t rescue flawed data. In fact, they often amplify data mistakes. Leaders obsessed with algorithmic breakthroughs sometimes overlook a simple truth: improving data quality can deliver bigger performance jumps than fiddling with complex models.

Key data-related factors for model excellence:

Feature quality: Garbage features lead to garbage predictions. High-quality data means clean, accurately labeled features that truly represent the underlying phenomenon.

Label accuracy: For supervised learning, mislabeled data is catastrophic. Even small labeling errors can derail training and cause unpredictable behavior.

Balanced datasets: Imbalanced classes (e.g., case vs. control in medical data, fraud vs. legitimate transactions) misdirect models. Oversampling, undersampling, or synthetic data generation helps, but only if you start with accurate base data.

Consistent preprocessing: Differences in how data is normalized, encoded, or scaled across training and production environments can produce surprising errors down the line. Standardize preprocessing steps within a governed framework.

Why data matters more than model complexity:

Signal clarity: A simple model trained on pristine data often outperforms a complex model trained on messy data. The model’s job is to amplify signal—not sift through noise.

Interpretability: With clearer data, even simpler models become more interpretable, making it easier to debug, validate, and trust results.

Resource efficiency: Complex models require significant compute power. If you achieve strong performance with a straightforward model on high-quality data, you save on cloud costs and development time.

Faster iteration cycles: When your data is reliable and well-structured, you can experiment rapidly—adjust features, tweak labels, and see immediate results.

Great AI starts with great data. Before you pour resources into hyperparameter tuning or novel neural networks, double down on data cleaning, feature engineering, and governance. A solid data foundation elevates every model you build and ensures your efforts translate into meaningful, dependable outcomes.

Be Proactive, Not Reactive, About Data Quality

Many organizations treat data quality as a reactive fix—cleaning data messes after they derail AI models. This reactive approach is costly, disruptive, and erodes trust. By the time you discover an issue in production, you’ve already wasted time, money, and credibility. Instead, embrace a proactive mindset: treat data governance and quality management as continuous, ingrained processes.

Proactive data quality practices include:

Automated validation: Set up tools to automatically check new data for missing fields, formatting errors, or suspicious outliers before it enters your data warehouse.

Data quality dashboards: Build real-time dashboards that track metrics like error rates, completeness percentages, and anomaly counts. Make these dashboards visible to stakeholders so issues are caught early.

Scheduled audits: Periodically sample datasets for manual review, focusing on critical data elements that directly impact AI performance.

Workflow integrations: Embed data checks into existing workflows. For example, require data stewards to sign off on new data sources before they’re used for model training.

Continuous feedback loops: Encourage data scientists and analysts to provide feedback on data quality issues, which then feeds back to data engineering teams to improve pipelines.

Advantages of proactive governance:

Stronger model performance: When data errors are caught upstream, models train on cleaner datasets, resulting in better accuracy and reliability.

Reduced downtime: Teams avoid emergency firefights to fix data issues in production, saving hours or days of troubleshooting.

Higher stakeholder confidence: Business leaders see a systematic approach to data quality, reinforcing trust in AI-driven insights.

Lower long-term costs: Early detection and prevention of data problems cost a fraction of the expenses associated with large-scale data remediation.

Reactive fixes are expensive and damaging. Flip the script by embedding proactive data quality measures throughout your data lifecycle. The payoff is smoother AI development, faster time-to-insight, and sustained confidence in your AI systems.

AI and the City Infrastructure Analogy—Build Before You Boast

Imagine a city with stunning architecture—gleaming skyscrapers, futuristic transit pods, and world-class amenities. Now imagine that same metropolis with pothole-ridden roads, a failing power grid, and sewage backups. Unthinkable? Yet that’s exactly what most companies do with AI: they showcase glossy prototypes while ignoring the data infrastructure beneath.

Ask yourself: Would you brag about your new rooftop heliport if your foundation is cracking? Would you promote a “smart city app” if the electrical grid is distributing power like it’s 1980?

Let’s break down the analogy:

Skyscrapers (AI models): Eye-catching, top-of-mind, easy to market. Everyone wants to admire them, take pictures, and post on LinkedIn.

Roads & Sewers (Data Pipelines): Invisible to most citizens, until they stink or collapse. If your data pipelines are poorly laid, data traffic jams ensue, and your AI “skyscraper” becomes uninhabitable.

Power Grid (Compute & Storage): Your AI engine’s energy source. If capacity is insufficient or inconsistently distributed, your AI can’t run in peak mode.

✨ If you’re touting your AI prowess but haven’t audited your IA in the last six months, you’re either naive or delusional. Data infrastructure rots quickly—schemas change, data owners leave, governance policies decay. Unless you treat IA as a living, breathing backbone, your AI can’t scale, can’t adapt, and ultimately, can’t survive.

Key Takeaway: Before clamoring about your “next-gen AI,” get ruthless about your data infrastructure. Because when your AI depends on weak pipelines and flaky data, the whole show falls apart.

Scalability Isn’t Optional—It’s the Lifeblood of AI

Here’s a provocative statement: If your AI can’t scale, it’s worthless. Plain and simple. You might have a terrific pilot working on a small dataset. Everything hums along: the model trains in minutes, metrics look great. But introduce real-world scale—terabytes of data, millions of users—and suddenly your AI chokes, grinds to a halt, or spits out unreliable results.

💡 Imagine building a fire hydrant that works perfectly in your garage but explodes when connected to city water pressure. That’s what happens without robust Information Architecture. You might have an elegant model in a controlled environment, but without a scalable data pipeline and architecture, you’re doomed when the live data deluge hits.

Key aspects of IA-driven scalability:

Modular Pipelines: When data ingestion, cleaning, and transformation are modularized, you can add new data sources seamlessly. That “hey, let’s just drop in this new CSV” mentality is a death trap. Instead, build reusable modules that can handle 10 data streams just as easily as 2.

Distributed Processing: Use cloud-based architectures like serverless or containerized clusters so you can elastically handle spikes in data volume. If your pipelines still rely on a single, on-premise server, forget about scaling.

Standardized Data Formats: Enforce common schemas across departments and data sources. When every dataset follows a standard blueprint, you don’t need custom code for each new piece of data.

‼️If you aren’t thinking about scale on day one, you’re lying to yourself. AI pilots that work in “petabyte mode” often start with “gb” mode during development. If your code and pipelines aren’t built to handle growth, you’ll spend months rearchitecting—or worse, abandoning the project entirely.

Key Takeaway: True AI success lies not in clever models but in data architectures that can scale infinitely. Because in the age of streaming data, anything that can’t grow breaks under pressure.

If Data Could Talk...

What if your data could talk? Would it tell stories of excellence—consistent quality, clear lineage, and robust governance? Or would it reveal embarrassing gaps, biases, and blind spots? Too often, organizations let data simmer in silence until an AI project stumbles.

Imagine an AI-powered hiring platform. If historical HR data isn’t carefully cleansed of gender or ethnicity biases, the AI will replicate past discrimination in candidate recommendations. By “listening” to your data, you can detect these issues before they spiral.

To ensure your data tells the right story, consider:

Data Profiling and Auditing: Regularly scan datasets for missing values, inconsistent formats, or statistical anomalies. Techniques like data profiling help you understand data distributions and spot hidden problems.

Bias Detection: Employ specialized tools to uncover and quantify biases—whether in demographics, outcomes, or labeling. Collaborate with domain experts to interpret results and take corrective action.

Transparent Lineage Tracking: Maintain detailed records of data’s journey from source systems to AI models. Knowing where data originates, how it’s transformed, and who accessed it enhances both trust and accountability.

When data “speaks,” it guides you toward necessary interventions—cleaning steps, policy updates, or governance tweaks. By fostering a culture where data insights are shared openly, you transform your data from a silent liability into a dynamic asset. If data could talk, it would beg for attentive stewardship—listen before launching your next AI initiative.

Trustworthy AI Starts with Trustworthy Data

User trust in AI isn’t won by flashy features—it’s earned through consistent, reliable results. People need confidence that an AI’s recommendations or decisions stem from solid, well-governed data. Skip data governance, and you risk eroding trust every time the AI delivers a surprising or incorrect output.

Key elements of trustworthy data include:

Transparency: Users should understand where data comes from and how it’s processed. Hide data origins, and you create suspicion.

Accuracy: Data must match real-world conditions. If an AI suggests something that clearly contradicts known facts, users will lose faith.

Consistency: Uniform data standards and definitions help avoid confusion. When different teams label or format data inconsistently, the AI’s outputs become unreliable.

Governance and Accountability: Clear policies on who owns, approves, and monitors the data ensure responsibility and oversight.

Without these elements, AI can:

Undermine decision-making: Business leaders hesitate to rely on AI if they suspect the underlying data is sketchy.

Exacerbate errors: A single high-profile mistake—such as recommending the wrong medical treatment or misidentifying a fraud pattern—can quickly undo months of progress.

Erode user confidence: Once trust is broken, regaining it is incredibly difficult. Users will switch off your AI or revert to manual processes out of fear.

Trustworthy AI starts at the data layer. Before you optimize models or user interfaces, build rock-solid data governance. That’s the only way to ensure AI delivers trustworthy, dependable results day after day.

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