Vinay Samuel
Vinay Samuel brings extensive Big Data and Information Management experience from several recent US software ventures such as Netezza, Greenplum and HP Vertica. He has deep business management, data warehousing, marketing and big data knowledge. He understands the key success criteria for utilising data driven strategy towards producing sustainable advantage for banks, telecommunications, retailers, mining and government organisations. Vinay has been involved in new software start-ups and has orchestrated the introduction of Internet-scale, high-performance computing technologies and various data driven applications.
Zetaris, where Samuel is the CEO, is creating “One single API for connecting and analysing all the data!” through the company’s AI for information management, machine learning and expert systems software which provides business users with tools to automatically build powerful enterprise data fabrics for consumption by the common BI tools. After being involved in the founding and commercialisation of disruptive technology in the Big Database industry, Zetaris is Samuel’s next venture which is the next generation of data warehousing and big data platforms.
Samuel established business operations and introduced products for the following companies into the APJ region:
1. Gridmatics (CEO)
2. Greenplum (VP Asia – reporting to the CEO)
3. Netezza (GM Asia – reporting to the CEO)
4. HP Vertica (VP, Asia – reporting to the CEO)
5. ThoughtWeb (President and CEO, Executive Director)
6. Zetaris (CEO – Current)
As a subject matter expert, Samuel has implemented many technologies covering many subject areas such as:
• Enterprise Data Modelling
• Analytical CRM
• Finance EDW
• Telco EDW
• Billing solutions
• Churn Analytics
• Risk Analytics
• Real Time Analytics
• Channel Optimization
• Hadoop Map Reduce
• Mobile Apps
• Enterprise Mobility Solutions
• Mobile BI