Credentials
Danette McGilvray is president and principal of Granite
Falls Consulting, Inc., a firm that helps organizations
increase their success by addressing the information
quality and data governance aspects of their business
efforts. Focusing on bottom-line results, Danette helps
organizations enhance the value of their information
assets by naturally integrating information quality
management into the business. A skilled facilitator,
program and project manager, she has worked with
people in all levels of the organization and from all
functional areas, giving her a valuable perspective of
organizational challenges based on real-life experience.
She also emphasizes communication and the human
aspect of information quality and governance.   

Danette promotes the intentional management of
information assets with the same rigor used to manage
other company assets such as products and human and
financial resources.  Client engagements include
establishing and maturing data quality and governance
programs. She also helps clients improve the success of
their business intelligence and data integration and
migration projects by incorporating information quality
management into project methodologies. Granite
Falls provides solutions through various means such as
executive presentations, training, program/project
design, review and implementation, team development,
customized consulting and one-on-one coaching.

Danette is the author of
Executing Data Quality
Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted
Information™ (Morgan Kaufmann, 2008).  An
internationally respected expert, her Ten Steps™
approach to information quality has been embraced as a
proven method for both understanding and creating
information and data quality in the enterprise. Her
trademarked approach, in which she has trained Fortune
500 clients and thousands of workshop attendees,
applies to all
types of data and all organizations. Her
book is used as a textbook in university graduate
programs.

Danette is an invited speaker at conferences around the
world. She contributes articles to various industry
journals and newsletters and has been profiled in PC
Week and HP Measure Magazine. She was invited to the
People’s Republic of China to discuss roles and
opportunities for women in the computer field. She is a
faculty member for The Data Warehousing Institute
(TDWI). In 2009, she received the Professional
Achievement Award from the Jon M. Huntsman School of
Business at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Danette is a founding member of the International
Association for Information and Data Quality
Professionals (IAIDQ) and an active member of DAMA
International.

You may reach Danette directly at:
danette@gfalls.com.
About Danette
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President and Principal
Granite Falls Consulting, Inc.
39899 Balentine Drive
Suite 215
Newark, California 94560 USA
(San Francisco Bay Area)
Danette McGilvray

Office: 510-651-4400
Cell: 510-501-8234
Fax: 510-780-2439
email: danette@gfalls.com
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Contact Her

Danette McGilvray
danette@gfalls.com
Office: 510-651-4400
Cell: 510-501-8234