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Craig Schiff is CEO and Lead Analyst at BPM Partners. He was a founding member of Hyperion (which is now part of Oracle), and spent 16 years as SVP of its Products & Services group. More recently he was co-founder and CEO of Outlook-Soft (now part of SAP). He was also a founding member of the BPM Standards Group and is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

He has spent 30+ years focused on budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and analytics. He has contributed his expertise to CFO Magazine, American Productivity & Quality Center, Association for Financial Professionals, Institute of Management Accountants, IndustryWeek, TechTarget, Information Management, TDWI and other leading finance and technology focused publications and conferences. For the fourth year in a row BPM Partners has been recognized as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes.