Hub Solution Designs

Dan Power is President of Hub Solution Designs, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in Master Data Management and Data Governance.

Prior to founding Hub Solution Designs, he was the general manager for Dun & Bradstreet’s strategic alliance with Oracle Corporation.

Mr. Power has twenty years of experience in management consulting, enterprise applications, strategic alliances, marketing, corporate strategy, project management and entrepreneurship at companies like Deloitte & Touche, Computer Sciences Corporation, eCredit and Parson Consulting.

He has worked with Oracle’s MDM, ERP and CRM platforms for more than twelve years. He is frequently an invited speaker at technology conferences and has written several articles for publications such as DM Review. He regularly advises clients on developing & implementing high impact MDM strategies.

He studied Computer Science at Princeton University, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College in Wellesley, MA.

Tim O’Sullivan has more than twenty years of experience in project management, business analysis, process reengineering and enterprise technologies.

His skills include data integration, data warehousing, business process management, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, business intelligence and information security using technologies from major vendors such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft, Cisco and Sun.

Mr. O’Sullivan has worked for leading companies including SAS Institute, Analog Devices and St. Jude Medical, as well as several startups. He has wide experience in the banking, financial services, healthcare, retail and manufacturing industries.

He has an MBA from Boston University and degrees in mathematics and engineering from Trinity College Dublin.

Gaurav Arora brings deep consulting expertise in systems implementation and in linking technology to business benefits. He has managed many full life-cycle projects, helping clients to evaluate, implement, deploy and support new enterprise applications on a large scale.

Prior to joining Hub Solution Designs, he was Director, CRM at Cognos, where he successfully implemented Oracle Customer Data Hub with several spoke systems, including Salesforce.com.

Mr. Arora has twenty years of consulting experience at firms like Price Waterhouse and Computer Sciences Corporation. He has delivered critical technology projects, including business intelligence, middleware and enterprise applications and has managed numerous mission-critical software development projects. He has been in senior positions at technology companies like CMGI, eCredit and Kenexa, and also has significant line experience in sales and finance with Mattel and Kodak.

He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the Indian National Institute of Technology.

Eric Gustafson is a Senior Consultant on the Hub Solution Designs team.

Prior to joining the firm, he was with Dun & Bradstreet, where he provided 35+ years of leadership on matching technology and data integration.

Early in his career at D&B, he designed and developed consumer matching and address standardization software for Donnelley Marketing. His next major assignment was to implement enhanced batch and online business matching technology, to allow accurate updates to the D&B database from thousands of external sources.

In addition, he was a frequent consultant to D&B’s larger customers, guiding them on data stewardship, data quality, integration with D&B data and automated match decisioning.

Mr. Gustafson is the author/inventor of a U.S. patent on MatchGrade, a system for measuring the quality of entity matching. This critical capability allows full understanding of match tradeoffs and the automation of most matching decisions.

He has over twenty-five years of experience in integration technology, alliances, marketing and strategy, working with companies like 3M, AT&T, Cargill, Dell, DHL, FedEx, HP, IBM, Office Depot, Oracle, UPS, Wal-Mart and Xerox.

Maureen Butler is a Senior Consultant at Hub Solution Designs, Inc., a management & technology consulting firm specializing in Master Data Management.

Prior to joining the firm, she was Director, Customer Information Management for a Fortune 500 company, W.W. Grainger, Inc., where she led a team of 35 people in cleansing & migrating customer data into an enterprise-wide SAP system. She also developed the Data Governance and Quality programs, and implemented Grainger’s Center of Excellence for Customer Information.

By launching a cross-functional Master Data Management initiative to improve data usability and quality, she helped drive significant revenue growth, cost savings, and process improvements for customer acquisition and penetration.

Ms. Butler has more than seventeen years of strategic leadership experience in integrated market planning and communications, customer brand strategy, organizational design, change management, product management, and supply chain with companies such as W.W. Grainger, Inc., National Education Training Group, and Educational Resources.

She is a Six Sigma Champion and a graduate of Grainger’s Leadership Development Program. She received an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, and a business marketing degree from Loyola University Chicago.

She is a Six Sigma Champion and a graduate of Grainger’s Leadership Development Program. She received an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and a business marketing degree from Loyola University Chicago.