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David Loshin is globally recognized as an expert in data governance, data quality, business intelligence, and master data management. He is the president of Knowledge Integrity, a consulting company focusing on strategic consulting and customized information management solutions.

David's expert channel at the Business Intelligence Network provides thought leadership and advice for the BI and data warehousing communities. He is also the author of renowned books on data governance and data warehousing. His book, Master Data Management (The MK/OMG Press)", published in 2008, provides a broad overview of the processes involved in planning, designing, and management an MDM program, especially with respect to data governance and metadata management.

His book, Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)">Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager’s Guide (June 2003) is hailed as a resource that allows readers to “gain an understanding of business intelligence, business management disciplines, data warehousing, and how all of the pieces work together.” An earlier work, Enterprise Knowledge Management – The Data Quality Approach” is recognized across the information management industry as a key resource for both business and technical data quality professionals.

David is a veteran of the financial industry, having worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MSDW) for their IT division in options pricing and securities processing. At MSDW, he worked on automating the generation of code for creating options pricing objects, and later assisted in the accounts renovation project, creating inline data validation routines for preventing duplicate customer account creation. Prior to MSDW, David was a senior compiler designer for Thinking Machines Corporation, a pioneer in massively parallel processing, where he focused on performance optimization, code optimization, and automatic parallelization.

David has created courses and tutorials on data quality, business information requirements analysis, business rules, data governance, and Master Data Management for The Data Warehousing Institute, DAMA/Meta Data conferences, and other venues. David is often called upon for thought leadership to the Information Management industry.