William McKnight | Source | President at McKnight Consulting Group

MCG is led by William McKnight. William functions as Strategist, Lead Enterprise Information Architect, and Program Manager for sites worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and big data. Many of his clients have gone public with their success stories.

William is an Ernst&Young Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge, has published hundreds of articles and white papers and given hundreds of international keynotes and public seminars, including TEDx. His teams’ implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won Best Practices awards. William is a former award-winning IT VP of a Fortune 50 company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA.

He is author of the books “Integrating Hadoop” and “Information Management: Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data.”

William is the #1 global influencer in big data, #1 in data center, #1 in cloud, #7 in analytics (Thinkers 360) and on the top list for master data management (Onalytica) in 2023/4.

His breadth of experience with information management includes internal product development (source code), IT development, management, analyst and consulting roles. He has produced dozens of analytic models in production worldwide.

William has been involved in information management his entire career. He has led numerous client successes over a 30+ year career in data, including many for companies in the Global 2000. His unparalleled exposure to the market infuses ideas into client programs.

William founded and grew McKnight Associates, Inc. during 1998-2005 to placement in the Inc. 500, the Dallas 100 (twice) and the Collin (county) 60. He sold the company to a public firm in 2005. He is author of the book “90 Days to Success in Consulting.”

William is a regular contributor to Information Week. He was a 10-year columnist at Information Management Magazine, is a 100+ time speaker and multiple keynote speaker at TDWI where he teaches Data Maturity, NoSQL, Graph Databases, Business Intelligence Principles, Data Quality, Program Management, Data Governance, Data Architecture, Data Integration, Data Return on Investment, Agile Methodology, Organizational Change Management, Master Data Management and other courses.

He gives multiple keynotes every year at Enterprise Data World, TDWI, The Data Architecture Summit, the MDM & Data Governance Conference Europe, Datafest and more. He is former president of the Data Warehousing Institute Dallas chapter, has blogged for Erwin Data Modeling Expert Blogs, The B-Eye Network, Jaspersoft Technology Blogs, IBM Midsize Group, Business Analytics Collaborative and TDWI Upside. He is the author of the Agile, Big Data and In-Memory Solution Offerings at MIKE 2.0 – the Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment, author of many online courses at ELearningCurve and Safari, author of the Data Warehouse and Big Data Certification Exams at ReviewNet, a member of the Boulder BI Brain Trust, on the Program Advisory Committee for NoSQL Now! and a 10-time expert at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit. William has taught at Santa Clara University, UC-Berkeley and UC-Santa Cruz. William has consulted in 14 countries.

According to WorldCat, thousands of colleges, universities, and libraries use his publications worldwide. Google Scholar reveals that his work has hundreds of citations worldwide.

William is a mentor in information for startup accelerator Tech Wildcatters.

William is an analyst for GigaOM Research and BWG Strategy and on the Big Data Advisory Board for SMU. William authored Cloud Analytic Database, Data Integration, Master Data Management, Multi-Model Database and Unstructured Data Sector Roadmaps, which compare the leading products.

William has a monthly webinar series, Advanced Analytics, at Dataversity.

William is the 2021 and 2022 National Age Group Champion for Hyrox Pro, The World Series of Fitness.

Read more and link to William on LinkedIn and follow William on Twitter. Contact William at wmcknight@mcknightcg.com.