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George Parapadakis

George Parapadakis - ECM Business Value Advocate

Over 15 years specializing in ECM and leading the ECM Strategic Innovation Council, George can help you turn content into strategic advantage.

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Tony Grout

Tony Grout - Industry Executive, Software Delivery Improvement

Over 15 years specializing in ECM and leading the ECM Strategic Innovation Council, George can help you turn content into strategic advantage.

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Lameez Subaya

Lameez Subaya - WebSphere Core Sales Representative

Lameez Subaya is a WebSphere Core Sales Representative at IBM South Africa. She helps organisations solve business problems.

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Lorraine Venter

Lorraine Venter - Business Analytics Technical Team lead, Performance management Client Technical Professional (CTP)

Lorraine specializes in performance management, business analytics optimization and solutioning for Finance in reporting, profitability modeling, optimization planning, analysis and forecasting.

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George Parapadakis

ECM Business Value Advocate

George Parapadakis George Parapadakis is an ECM Business Value Advocate in the ECM segment team in the UK and is founder and leader of the ECM Strategic Innovation Council in the UK. His role is focused on supporting IBM customers in maximising the value from their investment in ECM technologies, and in providing insight into new market trends such as Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media technologies. Previously, George has specialised in the use of ECM technologies to support Risk & Compliance solutions. George holds a BSc (Honours) in Computing Science and an MSc in Interactive Systems Design. He sits on the management committee of Intellect UK’s Document Management Group and is certified as “ECM Practitioner” as well as being awarded the title of “Master of Information Technologies (MIT)” by AIIM. He is a frequent speaker in conferences and regular writing contributor in various industry publications.


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George's opinions, thoughts, news and trivia around Information Management*


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Tony Grout

Industry Executive, Software Delivery Improvement

Tony Grout Tony Grout is responsible for ensuring that software delivery teams using IBM Rational tools are working at optimium effectiveness. He has packed a lot in during his 25 years in IT; successfully delivering software and business value, across all roles and most industries. Prior to joining IBM Tony has been IT Director and General Manager of two software businesses. He regularly shares his experiences at industry events and has sat on the technical editorial board of a number of books.*


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Lameez Subaya

WebSphere Core Sales Representative

Lameez SubayaLameez helps customers design, develop and maintain connected business processes and effective application infrastructures for all business situations. Applying her expertise and knowledge of the banking industry and public sector specifically. She helps her customer identify areas of improvement and provides solutions that will derive quick wins that show ROI to the various business



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Lorraine Venter

Business Analytics Technical Team lead, Performance management Client Technical Professional (CTP)

Lorraine VenterLorraine has been helping clients understanding how IBM can address and resolve their business problems with IBM Performance Management solutions. These focus on areas like: Financial Consolidations inclusive of optimizing your annual financial reporting requirements (Statutory, Management, IFRS, Basil III, Solvency II, SAM and CSR) Financial Analytics, Spend & Profitability analysis and Product, Market & Channel Analytics Strategic Finance, Revenue Planning and Forecasting, Expense Planning & Control, Workforce Planning and Capital & Initiative Planning. With an extensive track record in the industry Lorraine has worked in this area since 2003. Added to this are her 10 years Financial Controller experience at a large International organization supporting South Africa, MEA, Greece, Turkey and Israel and her product experience of 9 year.



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