Andy Graham is an independent consultant specialising in data and information architecture As such he is primarily a hand’s on person actively working with customers to develop their information and data management capabilities. Andy has worked over recent years with organisations across most industry sectors including financial services, government, utility, exploration, pharmaceutical, FMCG, telecom and leisure. Andy was formerly Regional Manager of Sybase’s Northern European Business Intelligence organisation. While at Sybase, he played a key role in building the BI organisation across EMEA and was instrumental in the delivery of many successful enterprise information solutions. Prior to this, Andy worked for Hummingbird (formally Andyne) as the UK Consultancy Manager where he was responsible for the development of a full spectrum professional services organisation to complement the companies’ software offerings. Andy also worked for Business Objects were he was one of the founding members of the UK organisation and as such was responsible for the success of many customer implementations and information strategies.