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Steve Zagoudis is an Information Strategist with nearly 25 years of broad-based business and technical experience. Steve has a passion for helping organizations realize their information and knowledge goals. His passion is based on the combination of his desire to help organizations address the realities of competitive and regulatory pressures facing them and his deep pursuit of philosophy and general systems theory. This unique combination of interests has served Steve well over the years and made him a formidable force to help organizations solve chronic data and information issues.
Throughout his career, Steve has been guided by the works of such authors as Gregory Bateson, Russell Ackoff, Stafford Beer, David Bohm, and Rupert Sheldrake. These authors all focused on the interconnectedness of systems, ranging from computer systems to, organizations to, countries , etcand beyond. Against this backdrop, and armed with an educational background in Finance, Economics and Computer Science, Steve has addressed fundamental needs for information within companies, and how that information can be transformed into fundamental knowledge and wisdom when combined with business process and objectives.
A brief summary of Steve’s career sheds some light on why Steve he is so uniquely positioned to help organizations navigate to the future of Information Governance. While in college Steve taught students how to drive 40-foot transit busses around Cleveland and then to cities like Chicago and New York. His true goal in this work was to learn communication skills and better his ability to “read the road ahead.”. Directly from college, Steve joined Standard Oil Company and was immediately put on projects that dealt with complex data integration and distribution. Steve developed Standard Oil’s first metadata implementation in the 1980’s based on the premise that the distributed needs for customer data should be self-evident based on key attributes about that customer. This simple, elegant concept became the foundation of a global, data-driven, replication strategy.
While at Standard Oil, and then ultimately British Petroleum (BP), Steve accepted a management position in Exchange Accounting, responsible for the reconciliation of billions of dollars of refined product exchanges. His drive to automate manual reconciliations led him to head up a sub-committee for the American Petroleum Institute. Following successes in the business arena, BP moved Steve to Germany to work across all capitals of Europe as a key lead for Data Governance and technical data distribution networks. These efforts resulted in the concept of the Reconciliation Control Framework™ that is the backbone of MetaGovernance.
Upon return to the US, Steve focused his efforts in the world of finance, holding critical in-house and consulting positions for companies such as IBM, Goldman Sachs, Nationwide Insurance, and the Federal Home Loan Banking System. His passion for accurate information, knowledge of finance, and strong architectural skills has resulted in significant risk reduction and competitive advantage for these companies.
When time permits, Steve travels the world to experience different cultures and people. His deep interest in eastern and western philosophy is based on the desire to understand multiple descriptions of any given situation. He is able to translate these differences directly into his work, mostly around strategic consulting on leveraging Business Intelligence technology for competitive advancement.
Steve considers himself a battle-hardened Information professional that has solved very complex data, information and process issues. He loves the challenge of an organizational information puzzle and has the experience and background to resolve it.
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