MICHELE CHAMBERS (Charlotte, NC), an entrepreneurial executive with 25 years of technology experience, serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Revolution Analytics, which delivers a commercial, enterprise ready R platform for high performance analytics. There, she is responsible for corporate strategy, product management and product marketing. She was formerly General Manager & Vice President of Big Data Analytics at IBM, where she successfully launched several lines of businesses, including the Advanced Analytic Solutions at Netezza that drove $80M in revenue in just six months. The co-author of Big Data Big Analytics, she holds an MBA from Duke.