Michael Berthold is co-founder of KNIME, the open analytics platform used by thousands of data experts around the world. He is currently president of KNIME.com AG and a professor at Konstanz University, where his research interests include bisociative data analysis and widening of mining algorithms. Previously he held positions in both academia (Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley) and industry (Intel, Tripos). Michael has co-authored two successful data analysis text books and is a frequent speaker at both academic and industrial conferences. If time permits he still writes code.