Sue Ranney is a ground-breaking thought leader in applying Big Data Analytics. She was the co-founder of ExaMetrix, the producer of the ExaStat open source environment for analyzing huge data sets. Sue also served as vice president of development for the data analysis products division at MathSoft (now TIBCO Software), where she co-managed S-Plus releases, and was the co-founder of TriMetrix — the creators of the Axum technical graphics and data analysis package. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.