Primary Job Title Founder and CEO Primary Organization Global Data Excellence
Location Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Walid el Abed is the founder and president of Global Data Excellence. He is a globally renowned expert and visionary in the fields of Data Governance, data quality, data conversion, metadata and master data management.
For more than 13 years, he has defined and implemented data strategies within global organizations through data quality and
data governance implementations to achieve business excellence.His frameworks and methodologies are unique, delivering tangible value from high quality data.
He is also a recognized international speaker and delivers training, seminars and conferences on data excellence from vision to value generation. Prior to founding Global Data Excellence, he was Business Excellence Manager at Nestlé headquarters, based in Switzerland.
He received his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Artificial Intelligence (Computer and Language Science) with first class honors distinction from Université de Franche-Comté at Besançon (Doubs), France.
