ARC North America Advisory Board

The role of the advisory board is to

• Review and advise on ARC processes, research projects, and academic partnerships;
• Provide universities visibility into SAP BusinessObjects research and products;
• Give SAP BusinessObjects access to top university researchers;
• Identify current and emerging research areas of importance; and
• Identify and recommend opportunities available to leverage joint funding.

Advisory Board Membership

The ARC Advisory Board contains equal representation from academia and SAP BusinessObjects.  The Board members are

• Bill Aiello, Department Head
  Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
• Jonathan Schaeffer, Canada Research Chair and iCORE Chair
  Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
• Tamer Ozsu, Director
  David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
• Craig Boutilier, Department Chair
  Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
• John Schwarz, CEO, SAP BusinessObjects
• Hervé Couturier, Executive VP, Technology Development, SAP BusinessObjects
• Sal Visca, CTO, SAP BusinessObjects
• Don Wakefield, VP Engineering, SAP BusinessObjects