Edsel David
Edsel David, Senior Director - Finance, Knowledge Management - Deal Structure & Pricing, Sodexo is an information management professional specialising in knowledge and competitive intelligence, eDiscovery, records and content management, business process management, collaboration, training and compliance, regulated systems and enterprise-wide information management technology implementations across multiple industries.
Edsel is currently head of Knowledge Management in the Finance organisation at Sodexo, a global quality of life services company. In his current role, Edsel leads the development, deployment and management of infrastructure, databases, processes, tools, templates, analytics and metrics to drive future business development and sales growth. He is leading the effort to identify, analyze and implement a pricing tool while standardizing processes, models, benchmarks, metrics, tools and templates.
Previously, Edsel was Head of Knowledge Management at Fannie Mae and Daiichi Sankyo, and has also held senior level information management positions with Bayer and Pfizer. Edsel is a long time member, presenter and advisor to AIIM and has given numerous presentations on data and information management to meetings in the financial, legal and pharmaceutical industries. Edsel holds an MBA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an MA in International Telecommunications from Michigan State University and a BA in English & Political Science from Alfred University (NY).
Articles by Edsel David:
The challenge of information management compliance
Thursday, 6th September 2012
As information technology continues to become increasingly embedded in our jobs, organisations will have exponentially more challenges around information compliance. Although individual industries have unique regulations, technologies and challenges, fundamentally, many of the compliance requirements are common. This allows information managers across multiple industries to address compliance challenges in a standard, systematic way. Edsel David looks at six strategies to begin to address these challenges.
Six strategies for improving information management compliance
Thursday, 6th September 2012
As information technology continues to become increasingly embedded in our jobs, organisations will have exponentially more challenges around information compliance. Although individual industries have unique regulations, technologies and challenges, fundamentally, many of the compliance requirements are common. This allows information managers across multiple industries to address compliance challenges in a standard, systematic way. Edsel David looks at six strategies to begin to address these challenges.
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