Randy Lea
VP, Product & Services Marketing
Teradata

Randy is responsible for marketing Teradata products (database, utilities, and platform), Teradata services (professional and customer services), plus technical field sales support teams. Teradata marketing is focused on articulating and promoting the business and technological value of a centralised, integrated data warehouse - referred to as Teradata's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). The EDW is the foundation for Teradata's Active Data Warehouse which can extend support for decision-making beyond corporate management to all functions across the enterprise, optimising operational and strategic decisions. Teradata makes it possible to integrate analytics throughout the organisation that provides business intelligence for better, faster decisions. To augment and grow the value and ROI from customer investments in the EDW, Teradata produces applications and solutions across the complete value chain, as well as solutions with or from 3rd party ISV's, and implemented by Teradata's Professional Services and System Integrator partners.

Lea has twenty-three years of experience with NCR.  He started his career with NCR in retail Point of Sale solutions (POS), with fourteen years in sales and sales management positions. His role expanded to include PC's, Servers, and Teradata data warehouse solutions. Since moving into the Teradata organisation he has held positions as Director of Product Management for Retail data warehouse applications, Director of Scalable Data Warehouse Marketing, Assistant Vice President of Teradata Marketing, Vice President of Teradata Channel Partner Sales and Retail Regional Sales Director. 

Prior to his current position, Lea was Vice President of Global Sales Support in conjunction with the Engineering organisation.  He also served one year with BeXcom, as President of the North America region.  BeXcom delivered a B2B eCommerce solution that delivered business documents, primarily procurement related documents such as RFQ's, PO's and invoices, between business partners via the Internet. Lea holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University at Fullerton with an emphasis in Marketing and Accounting, and is a graduate of the Executive Professional Development Program from the California State University at San Diego.