John MacGregor
John MacGregor has over 30 years of practical business and teaching experience in the world of predictive analysis. He has worked at Unilever, lectured at the University of London, and served as the Master’s program chair. He developed the Statistical Analysis module for Pilot EIS product and Data Mining for Pilot Software, OLAP Server; was a founding member of the Data Mining team in Gentia Software, UK; and was a product and partner manager for KXEN and then for SPSS/IBM in BOBJ/SAP. He has run several software companies both in the UK and Australia and was the key driver in the creation of the SAP Predictive Analysis product. Jon is currently the vice president and head of the Centre of Predictive Analysis for SAP HANA. John regularly presents at SAPPHIRE, TechEd, ASUG and Predictive Analysis World, and writes a predictive analysis newsletter
