Gary Cokins contributed first ten years in the industry as a financial controller and operations manager, and then fifteen years as a management consultant (Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS). Then sixteen years with SAS, the prominent business analytics and intelligence software vendor, he is now internationally recognized as an expert speaker, author, and consultant in the "enterprise performance management (EPM)" and business analytics methods and systems.

Specialties: Designing, integrating, and implementing analytics-based enterprise performance management (EPM) systems, including activity-based cost management (ABC/M), strategy maps, balanced scorecard, budgeting, customer economic value, risk management,and supply chain management.