Les is co-owner of a boutique consulting company where he is the principal of the Data Governance practice and provides subject matter expertise to a variety of clients and business partners.  He has an extensive background in Data Strategy, Data Governance, and Master Data Management (MDM) with expertise in Life Science, Software Development, Education, Tax, Customer Service and Technology organizations.

In his most recent engagements, he has successfully guided the relaunch a struggling Data Governance program for a major bio medical company that was floundering due to business shifts impacted by COVID – 19.  In another instance, he has worked with a global Animal Health Pharmaceutical company to modernize their legacy Data Governance program to institute Data Products with Data Domain Owners to drive top to bottom and bottom to top global business performance scorecards.

Les was previously the Head of Governance, Data Strategy, and MDM for Boehringer-Ingelheim US Animal Health where he directed a team to enhance data quality, reliability, and access. Responsible for Master Data Management, Data Governance, and Product Hierarchy functions as well as the Global Business capability owner for Veeva Vault. Lead diplomat in managing the organizations data footprint.

In this role he was hand selected to lead product portfolio divestiture for the acquisition of Merial. He successfully managed the relationship with counterparts at Bayer and Elanco to effectively transfer commercial assets while protecting Boehringer Ingelheim’s intellectual property and deliver significant value capture.

He created and implemented a strategy to consolidate data from disparate sources, merge two legacy ERPs, incentive compensation systems, CRM, and enterprise data warehouses, significantly decreasing the complexity of sourcing data.  Executed Ecosystem stabilization initiatives to solve multiple issues affecting data, processes, and systems including alignment of customer master correctly to species, territories, and sales goals.

Prior to joining Boehringer-Ingelheim, Les was the Director of Product Process & Lead Process Engineer for West Telecommunications Interactive Services where he was instrumental in working across teams to develop process, procedures and approaches to drive operational efficiencies, speed to market and revenue, and data driven decision making to support client retention for Fortune 500 companies.

While in the Education industry, Les was initially the VP of Admissions, and then acting University President of Grantham University.  He was then recruited to lead Pinnacle Career Institute as the VP of Online programs where he leveraged his data driven approach to improve marketing lead management systems to optimize lead distribution and conversion performance for organic and paid channels with outstanding results.  Introduced business scorecards for key lead performance indicators for speed to lead, lead performance by channel and time to convert the lead to a student.

Les is a life long learner and deeply enjoys working in the Data Governance field.