ChampionScott Partners is pleased to announce the appointments of Anatoli Olkhovets as Vice President, Product Management and Minnie Punj-Introne as Vice President, Delivery Services to Opera Solutions. Opera Solutions combines advanced science, technology, and domain knowledge to extract predictive intelligence from Big Data and turn it into actionable insights that help people make smarter decisions. Mr. Olkhovets and Ms. Punj-Introne each bring a breadth of experience from their respective fields to Opera.
Mr. Olkhovets joins Opera from IBM where he most recently served as Director of Product Management, IBM Watson Group. At IBM, he had been focused on defining and bringing to market repeatable product offerings. Previously, Mr. Olkhovets held two other senior roles at IBM focused on solutions strategy and enterprise transformation, both involving the design and construction of analytics solutions. Prior to IBM, Mr. Olkhovets served as a Consultant at McKinsey where he led client and McKinsey teams in developing operational recommendations for high-tech and media companies.
Mr. Olkhovets earned his B.S. equivalent in General and Applied Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Cornell University.
Ms. Punj-Introne joins Opera from Knoa Software, a provider of user experience and performance management software, where she served as Vice President of Professional Services. At Knoa, Minnie was responsible for leading professional services, customer support as well as their consulting practice. Prior to joining Knoa, Ms. Punj-Introne held several senior level positions at Heartbeat Software. Heartbeat combines enterprise software, data, analytics and consulting solutions to the life sciences industry. Previously, she held developer roles at organizations including Webserves.us, Sinu Inc., dbaDirect and Viionsoft LTD.
Ms. Punj-Introne earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and her Master’s Degree in International Economics / Econometrics from Panjab University.
About Opera
Opera Solutions combines advanced science, technology, and domain knowledge to extract predictive intelligence from Big Data and turn it into insights and recommended actions that help people make smarter decisions, work more productively, serve their customers better, grow revenues, and reduce expenses. Its hosted solutions, delivered as a service, are today delivering results in some of the world’s most respected organizations in financial services, healthcare, hospitality, telecommunications, and government. For more information, please visit www.Opera.com.
About ChampionScott Partners
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