Attif Khattari is the Vice President Middle East Africa region for Teradata. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic direction and business development of Teradata in the MEA region.

Attif has over 25 years’ experience working with analytic technologies. During his career he has held a number of different consulting and sales roles, including management positions with both an EMEA-wide and global scope at NCR, Tandem Computer, ATT and Dataid France.

Attif holds a Master of Science Degree in Physic from Paris-Saclay University and Master of Finance from HEC Paris Business School.

Martin has over 27-years of experience in the IT industry and has twice been listed in dataIQ’s “Data 100” as one of the most influential people in data-driven business. Before joining Teradata, Martin held data leadership roles at a major UK Retailer and a large conglomerate. Since joining Teradata, Martin has worked globally with over 250 organisations to help them realise increased business value from their data. He has helped organisations develop data and analytic strategies aligned with business objectives; designed and delivered complex technology benchmarks; pioneered the deployment of “big data” technologies; and led the development of Teradata’s AI/ML strategy. Originally a physicist, Martin has a postgraduate certificate in computing and continues to study statistics.

Stephen is the CTO at Teradata.  He performed his graduate work in Computer Science at MIT where his Masters and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management.   During Barack Obama’s first term he was appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.  He was ranked in 2014 by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the USA (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs.