Open Technologies - Management Team

 Isaac Cheifetz – President

Isaac Cheifetz is founder of Open Technologies and widely considered a key connective agent in the Twin Cities Information Solutions community.

He has over 25 years of experience consulting to advanced technology businesses on executive search, organizational design and strategy. He has spent much of career recruiting and consulting within the Business Intelligence industry.

Isaac edited The Intranet Data Warehouse, by Richard Tanler, (1997, Wiley Press), the first book published on Internet based Business Intelligence. Isaac is the author of Hiring Secrets of the NFL (Davies Black, 2007) and writes a column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Commerce Chain, on trends and best practices in the global economy.

Isaac received a BA in History from Yeshiva University and an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.

Isaac can be reached at Isaac@opentechnologies.com or by phone at 612-386-0299.

 Chris Linscott - VP Consulting Services

Chris Linscott has over twenty years of experience with advanced software consulting firms in the Twin Cities, with a focus on Business Intelligence. His consulting track record includes account management, practice management, sales, technical recruiting and training.

Chris is particularly adept at matching his network top Business Intelligence technologists in the Twin Cities and nationally, with client’s business needs and culture, a critical success factor for companies seeking to bridge the people/process/technology divide in bringing value to their customers.

Chris was previously a Territory Sales Manager for Motorola Corp, and managed marketing and sales for a specialized CRM start up.

He received a BA in Humanities from the University of Minnesota, and was a nationally ranked high school swimmer.

Chris can be reached at chris@opentechnologies.com or by phone at 763-226-5269.

 Rajeev Tandon – Chief Information Integration Architect

Rajeev Tandon brings a world class “forest and trees” perspective to our clients’ Business Intelligence endeavors, combining a strategic, “big picture” business perspective with exceptional understanding of end-to-end BI systems architecture.

Rajeev has been a program manager, chief solution architect and chief database architect and modeler for enterprise Business Intelligence projects at Wells Fargo, Ameriprise Financial, Ceridian, the Minnesota State Court System, and numerous other local and national organizations.

Previously at United Health Group, Rajeev was an IS Director of IS managing all business application needs for the Medica Health Plan in conjunction with United HealthCare systems.

Rajeev was also a senior Data Modeling & Database Architect, responsible for optimizing queries on United’s Galaxy clinical database, developed as a single source for individual customer, care provider, policy, product, pharmacy, financial and statistical claims data. It was and remains one of the most comprehensive data warehouses in the health care industry with the ability to enable statistically valid measurement and analyses of health care utilization, effectiveness and cost.

Rajeev began his career as a Principal Systems Programmer at Unisys in the late 1980’s, leading teams developing RDMS 2200, the Unisys relational database management system. His focus was implementing features such as stored procedures and triggers, parallel I/O for faster query searches in decision support systems, and multi-host database system for the Relational Database.

Rajeev holds MS degrees in Computer Science and Civil Engineering from Purdue University, and a BE in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Rajeev can be reached at rtandon@opentechnologies.com

 Pat Stein, Business Intelligence Practice Leader

Pat Stein is Open Technologies Consultings' Business Intelligence Practice Leader. He has spent his career delivering business value by intertwining data warehousing, process automation, change management, IT Audit and security solutions.

At Target Corp., he held several key leadership positions in IT, finance, and operations; including leading several key BI indicatives and the rollout of the first custom enterprise performance management dashboard for Executive and Senior Leaders across multiple business functions.

At Northwest Airlines, Pat led the business team for a multiyear $60m development project that transformed the customer experience within an airport and enabled the first automated passenger re-accommodation system in the airline industry. He also led the creation and development of a series of fraud risk assessment systems that materially reduced the airlines exposure to internal and external fraud risks.

Pat completed a BS in Business Management from St. John’s University.

Pat can be reached at pstein@opentechnologies.com