Sunil Soares

Sunil Soares is the founder and managing partner of Information Asset, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations build out their information governance programs. Prior to this role, Sunil was the Director of Information Governance at IBM, and worked with clients across six continents and multiple industries. Sunil has published a book called The IBM Data Governance Unified Process that details the fourteen steps and almost one hundred sub-steps to implement an information governance program. The book is currently in its second print and has also been translated into Chinese. Sunil’s second book, Selling Information Governance to the Business: Best Practices by Industry and Job Function, reviews the best way to approach information governance by industry and function. His third book, Big Data Governance, will review the importance of information governance for different types of big data such as social media, machine-to-machine, big transaction data, biometrics, and human generated data. Sunil has also worked at the Financial Services Strategy Consulting Practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton in New York. He lives in New Jersey and holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.