Charlie Berger is the Sr. Director of Product Management, for Data Mining and Advanced Analytics at Oracle. He has over 30 years of experience in data analysis software including Oracle, Thinking Machines Corporation, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Automatix (robotics), Palladian (expert systems), Honeywell and IBM. He is responsible for the product management and direction of Oracle's in-databases' data mining and predictive analytics technology including Oracle Data Mining, text mining and the SQL based statistical functions. Previously, he was the VP of Product Management and Marketing at Thinking Machines prior to its acquisition by Oracle in 1999. Charlie is a technical evangelist in the field of predictive analytics and data mining. He holds a Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering and a Master of Business Administration both from Boston University. He holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.