As vice president of product strategy, Shadi Shahin is responsible for leading Product Management, Price and Offering Management, as well as the Enterprise Excellence Center teams. His background as an IT professional began at IBM more than 25 years ago eventually leading Wolters Kluwer, and most recently, RedHat. Along the way, Shahin’s teams pushed the boundaries within data, analytics, and next-generation technologies. This included creative integrations of SAS into an open architecture ecosystems. His guiding principle at is to infuse both a customer and practitioner perspective into a pragmatic and collaborative SAS roadmap.