Advisory Members
Stacey Aguinaldo - Lead, Customer Success, IBM Watson Financial Services Solutions
Paul Curtis - Manager Solutions Deliver / Business Intelligence Consultant, The Co-Operators Insurance
Guido Di Cesare - Architecture, Big Data and Integration, Canadian Tire Corporation
Bradley Gibson - Enterprise Account Manager, Cloudera
Chris Giovis - Business Intelligence Consultant, The Co-Operators Insurance
Jim Green - Vice President, Environics Analytics
Dan Iacono - Director BI & Analytics, RCI Finance, Rogers Communication Inc.
Snehal Patel - Senior Manager, Big Data Analytics, AI, Omnia AI, Deloitte Canada
Sandip Shah - Director / Head of Data & Business Intelligence, WestJet
Mentors
In
addition to instructors, the program is fortunate to have industry mentors who
aid students through their capstone course in applying project management
principles to a major data project.
Faculty Approvers
The Certificate in Big Data Analytics has been
designed in association with the MacDataInstitute and the DeGroote School of Business. Faculty members on the Board act as approvers to curriculum and add the latest
research-based findings to the program.
Dr. Elkafi Hassini, Professor, Operations
Management, DeGroote School of Business, Acting Director of MacData Institute
Dr. Emad Mohammad, Associate Dean
(Academic), Associate Professor, Accounting and
Financial Management Services, DeGroote School of Business
