Doug Grimsted

Doug’s entire career has been spent pioneering the use of data and analytics to change how companies compete. In the 90’s, Doug worked with a group of industry veterans to found and run an ANSI committee to standardize Xbase, the language of Foxpro, Clipper, and Dbase III. As CEO of Geneer his team developed and managed the software delivery analytics tools for many of Nielsen’s data products. As CEO of Aginity, his team built the demand signal system that Kroger uses to forecast their entire inventory and collaborate with their suppliers (DemandView). Aginity went on to pioneer the exciting new field of Enterprise Analytics Management with their Analytics Management Platform, AMP, which is sold by IBM globally and used by large enterprises like Kroger, Catalina Marketing, Kohl’s, and Coca-Cola to manage all their analytics across the enterprise.