Describing himself as a recovering CPA, Ben Taub served as an accountant and auditor early in his career. He quickly shifted careers to his primary interest of information technology, data management, and decision support techniques. Before starting the analytics consulting and staffing company Dataspace, he was an early employee of business intelligence pioneer MicroStrategy. He now also oversees Golden Record, a cloud-based data matching and deduplication system which grew out of needs he saw in his various consulting assignments.
Ben has led efforts in the field of analytics, data management, and data warehousing for over 30 years and has coauthored three books on the topic, ORACLE8 DATA WAREHOUSING, ORACLE 8I DATA WAREHOUSING, and SQL SERVER 7 DATA WAREHOUSING, the first two in the Oracle Press series and the last published by the Osborne division of McGraw Hill. He has also spoken frequently and advises major corporations and charitable organizations on issues of analytics and data warehousing strategy.
Ben has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business from Lehigh University and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Michigan. You can reach him at Benjamin.Taub@Dataspace.com.
