Ralph Poole is a renowned business and academic leader with a diverse set of skills and expertise. With experience in strategy and technology consulting, entrepreneurship, and knowledge management, he has advised business leaders on optimizing business processes, maximizing unstructured content, and enhancing data-driven decision-making. Ralph has worked with some of the world's premier consulting firms, including Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Ernst & Young, and Capgemini, where he led international multidisciplinary teams. He has pioneered solutions using cognitive computing, semantic search, metadata processing, natural language processing, and findability frameworks to optimize the value of disparate data sets, and has also taught courses on innovation and knowledge-driven digital product innovation. Ralph is a thought leader in knowledge management, innovation, natural language processing, text analytics, eDiscovery, predictive coding, and ontology.