About the Authors

Nidhi Aggarwal leads strategy and marketing at Tamr. Prior to joining Tamr, Nidhi founded Cloud vLab, makers of qwikLAB, a software-learning platform used to create and deploy on-demand lab environments. In the years before Cloud vLab, Nidhi worked at McKinsey & Company, advising Fortune 150 companies on big data strategy. Nidhi holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

With over 20 years of experience in consulting services and software, Byron Berk currently leads the Customer Success team at Tamr, Inc. Prior to joining Tamr, Byron was the Director of Professional Services and Training for Hewlett-Packard’s software business unit, where he led the development of the services and education organization for HP Vertica. Byron is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has an MBA from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

Gideon Goldin is User Experience Architect at Tamr, where he focuses on product research and design. Prior to Tamr, Gideon served as a university lecturer and cofounder of DataScale Consulting, a data science and user experience firm. He holds a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction and a PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University.

Matt Holzapfel is a procurement analytics evangelist at Tamr, Inc. Prior to consulting with Tamr, Matt held positions in Strategy at Sears Holdings and Strategic Sourcing at Dell, where he led the implementation of new sourcing techniques to significantly lower procurement costs. Matt has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a recent graduate of Harvard Business School.

Eliot Knudsen is a Field Architect at Tamr, where he works on technical implementation and deployment. He’s worked with Fortune 100 clients to dramatically reduce spend by unifying sourcing data and implementing procurement analytics. Prior to Tamr, Eliot was a Data Scientist in Healthcare IT, applying machine learning to patient-provider matching algorithms. Eliot is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied computational mathematics, statistics, and machine learning.