As vice president of product strategy, Shadi Shahin is responsible for leading Product Management, Price and Offer Management at SAS. His background as an IT professional began at IBM more than 25 years ago eventually leading Wolters Kluwer, and most recently, RedHat. Along the way, Shahin’s teams pushed the boundaries within data, analytics, and next-generation technologies. This includes creative integrations of SAS into an open architecture eco-system. His guiding principle is to infuse both a customer and practitioner perspective into a pragmatic and collaborative SAS solutions roadmap.