Maria Villar is an IT professional with over 25 years of experience in IT, technology re-engineering and enterprise data management. She has held senior executive positions in both the technology and financial sector that included responsibilities for data quality, governance, architecture, and database technology solutions. She built the first, companywide, Enterprise Business Information Center of Excellence at IBM. The COE was recognized externally by TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) for best practices in Data Governance and Business Intelligence applications. Maria has been recognized in Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the Top 100 Influential Hispanics and received the Distinguished Hispanic IT Executive award from Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference.