Oracle EPM Product Strategy Forum for Partners in EMEA

Matt Bradley
SVP Product Development – Business Analytics

Biography:

Matt joined Oracle UK straight out of college in the late 80's. Working within OCS specifically in the Healthcare vertical, was involved in some very early EBS deployments. As Oracle moved towards establishing a presence within applications he helped introduce some OEMs into the UK marketplace, ultimately leaving Oracle to join a small startup in US in the early 90's. After surviving several acquisitions and divestments, Matt ended up as a general manager within National Data Corporation providing packaged applications and transactional systems for the international healthcare market specifically with in the world of HMO, PPOs and their impact of hospital revenue and costs. From there Matt joined Quadramed as a VP development, managing a very geographically dispersed team of 150 engineers in the electronic medical records space. As Quadramed grew by acquisitions, Matt's role was geared towards bringing the smaller companies together to make the whole bigger than the sum of the parts. After leaving Quardamed in 2000 Matt joined Hyperion, helped introduce Hyperion Planning to the marketplace, led several initiatives to move from a point product strategy to one focused on a "system" strategy, established a 500+ multi-shore development presence and a centralized QE organization. Following the acquisition by Oracle, Matt has continued in this leadership role with the EPM/BI engineering teams and is now the SVP development responsible for Oracle's BI and EPM products.

Marc Seewald, Senior Director
Product Management, Snr Director, Product Management

Biography:

Marc has over 20 years experience in Enterprise Performance Management. Starting his career in an EPM client services organization, Marc has designed and implemented customer solutions across the consolidation, planning, profitability, and tax reporting domains. After 10 years of implementing EPM products, he moved into Product Management at Longview Solutions– a North American-based EPM software company. In this role, Marc introduced a new product line focusing on tax reporting – eventually growing the business to a material portion of overall revenue. Marc was later promoted to the role of VP of Product Management where he was responsible for inbound and outbound activities across all EPM product lines at Longview Solutions. In this capacity Marc helped usher the company into its first cloud-based EPM offering. After leaving Longview in 2012, Marc joined the Oracle Hyperion Product Management team. His first area of focus was introducing tax reporting products into the EPM product suite – specifically Hyperion Tax Provision. More recently, Marc has taken on responsibility for additional emerging new EPM cloud products.

Rajesh Bhatia,
VP, Development

Biography:

Rajesh Bhatia is the VP of Product Development, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management. In his current role Rajesh is responsible for development of various applications focused on the close, consolidation and reporting domain. Rajesh brings over 20 yrs of enterprise application development experience to Oracle. He started his career at Oracle working on collaboration applications and then as a senior development manager in Oracle Financials. After which is held senior management and executive roles at small successful startups focused on financial performance and compliance management before returning back to Oracle in 2008. Rajesh has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Illinois and MS in Computer Science from Purdue University.