Margy Ross is President of the Kimball Group. She has focused exclusively on decision support and data warehousing for more than twenty years, specializing in program/project strategy, business requirements analysis, and dimensional modeling. Since helping over 100 large organizations with their data warehouses, she remains convinced that business acceptance is the true measure of data warehouse success.

In addition to her consulting activities, Margy teaches the core Kimball University public classes and on-sites, both domestically and internationally. She co-authored The Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition and The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit and regularly writes the Data Warehouse Designer column for Intelligent Enterprise.

Before launching the Kimball Group, Margy co-founded DecisionWorks Consulting, Inc. in 1994 with Bob Becker and Nancy Rinn. She had previously worked at Metaphor for ten years in a variety of consulting and management positions, including responsibility for Metaphor’s Customer Database Marketing business unit. Margy began her career with Arthur Andersen (now Accenture) Consulting. She graduated with a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University.

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