Sunil Soares is the founder and managing partner of Information Asset, a consulting firm that specializes in data governance, and is a former director of information governance at IBM. He is the author of Big Data Governance; Data Governance Tools: Evaluation Criteria, Big Data Governance, and Alignment with Enterprise Data Management; The IBM Data Governance Unified Process; IBM InfoSphere: A Platform for Big Data Governance and Process Data Governance; and Selling Information Governance to the Business. He lives in Harrington Park, New Jersey.