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Overview:
Ari Kaplan is
a leading figure in Major League Baseball for revolutionizing and modernizing
player assessment. He joined the Chicago Cubs in 2010 as Manager of Statistical
Analysis.
Educated at
the California Institute of Technology, Ari received their “Alumni of the Decade”
distinction for developing groundbreaking sabermetrics used to evaluate pitcher
talent. Crain's Chicago Business also recognized Kaplan's work in business,
baseball and humanitarian endeavors by including him in their annual "40
Under 40" cover story.
For the past
23 seasons, Ari has worked full-time and consulted for more than half of all
MLB organizations. He has worked directly with General Managers, presidents,
and scouting directors to dramatically improve business operations and
strategic analytical capabilities. Ari combines technology, statistical
analysis and business acumen for a fresh look at evaluating players for maximum
return on a baseball club’s investment both on and off the field. He has worked
with some of the top-tier baseball Managers, coaches, and players to understand
strengths, weaknesses, and habits of players.
He has worked
under many GMs and managers including Fred Claire, Andy MacPhail, Jim Hendry,
Tal Smith, Tim Purpura, Phil Garner, Kevin Kennedy, Frank Robinson, Roland
Hemond, Joe McIlvaine, Jim Beattie, Bill Stoneman, David Littlefield, Dan
Duquette, Kevin Malone, and others.
In addition
to his scouting background, Ari is one of the few long-term baseball leaders
who has a proven track record at Fortune 500 companies, as well as successfully
running several high-profile organizations as CEO.
He worked for
Oracle Corporation before eventually transitioning to the role of President of
the 20,000-member Independent Oracle Users Group. He also has held senior roles
at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz Allen Hamilton, U.S. Robotics/3Com, among
others. Ari also developed applications for companies including Hallmark, Merck
and the Chicago Board Options Exchange, as well as several branches of the U.S.
military and government.
Ari founded
and served as CEO of Expand Beyond Corporation, growing it through its
acquisition in 2005. Backed by Menlo Ventures, Expand Beyond raised over $16
million, secured hundreds of customers, and solidified Ari's role as one of the
founding fathers of the mobile business software market.
On the media
front, Ari's monthly column in Oracle Magazine reached more than 800,000
subscribers, and he co-authored five best-selling books on analytics,
databases, and baseball. Ari's work has been profiled on the History Channel,
Baseball America, “This Week in Baseball” with Mel Allen, CNN, the Today Show,
Chris Matthews Hardball, Newsweek, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York
Times, the Financial Times, MSNBC, the BBC, and hundreds of other outlets.
Kaplan is a popular speaker at national and international technology
conferences including TED, Comdex, OracleWorld, the Caltech/MIT Enterprise
Forum, Wall Street Technology Association, Northwestern University’s Kellogg
School of Management, and University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.
Kaplan is also on the Swedish-Russian Working Group on the Fate of Raoul
Wallenberg, investigating the disappearance of
the Holocaust hero into the Soviet gulag. He serves on the board of directors
for ANTs software and the Illinois Technology Association.
Ari played
NCAA Baseball at Caltech 1988-1992.
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President of the Independent Oracle Users Group 2005-2008 for the
world’s second largest software company, presiding over 200 staff and
volunteers for the 20,000+ member technical association.
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Widely recognized as a leading authority in the IT industry,
Kaplan has architected and led implementation of some of the most successful
and highly visible data centers and applications for Fortune 500 companies
including 3Com, Hallmark, Merck and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
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Co-author of six best-selling books including the first-to-market
book on Windows 2000 (which went to #17 on Amazon’s Best-Seller list), three on
Oracle, and two on baseball analytics.
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Awarded Crain Communication’s "40 Under 40" distinction
for effective business leaders.
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Awarded broad
Ari Kaplan in the News:
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Video
of Ari Kaplan and Charles Phillips during the Oracle Database 11g launch, NYC
2007 (Watch Segment 1 from minute 48-52), also on YouTube
History of
Trenton Computer Festival Keynote presenters
Trenton
Times cover story, October 1, 2006: Hero outsmarted the Nazis. He saved 100,000
Hungarian Jews but could not save himself
Trenton Times second cover story, October
4, 2006: Remembering missing hero of the Holocaust
Feb 2006: 
Co-author and editor of
O’Reilly’s “Baseball Hacks”
Nov 2007: Oracle Magazine Column: A Place for Everything
Sep 2007: Oracle Magazine Column: What’s New in Oracle Database 11g
Jul 2007: Oracle Magazine Column: An Oracle User Looks at 30
May 2007: Oracle Magazine Column: Oracle Fusion Propels the Future
Mar 2007: Oracle Magazine Column: New Strategies Simplify Backups
Nov 2006: Oracle Magazine Column: Asking the Right Questions
Sep 2006: Oracle Magazine Column: Storage
Made Simpler
July 2006: Oracle Magazine Column: XML
in Databases
May 2006: Oracle Magazine Column: Applications
for Real-Time Access
Mar 2006: Oracle Magazine Column: Riding
the Mobile Wave
Jan 2006: Oracle Magazine Column: The
Business Case for SOA
09/23/05: Information Week: Security
inside the database
03/29/05: Expand Beyond acquired
(InfoWorld)
03/29/05: Expand Beyond acquired (press
release)
09/03/04: Ari Kaplan awarded major wireless patent
01/08/04: Ari Kaplan in USA Today as “Tech Industry
Titan”
08/01/02: 
DM Review: Executive Interview
04/29/02: Times of Trenton: Local Computer Prodigy
Returns as Festival Speaker
09/01/01: 
September 2001 From
Contractor to CEO: The Career of Ari Kaplan
05/21/01: Chicago Sun-Times: PocketDBA lets database
chiefs work at remote site
07/15/00: July / August
Peer-to-Peer in Oracle Magazine
06/18/00: Chicago Tribune (Front Page of
Jobs Section): "Pick to Click" in the Midwest
01/20/00: Chicago
Daily Herald / Raoul Wallenberg Article
01/19/00: Chicago Sun Times / Answers sought on Wallenberg
10/01/99:
October's cover story of Contract
Professional Magazine. Order your copy today!
11/15/99 : ComputerWorld: "Hot Spots"
10/25/99 : ComputerWorld cover lead:
"Extreme Techies".
Article on BG&E project, for which Ari was Oracle DBA .
See various articles on Ari's Baseball
Research .
Ari Kaplan 's Co-Authored Books:
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Raoul
Wallenberg:
AP story:
Scholars run down more clues to a Holocaust mystery, April 27 2008
Trenton
Times second cover story, October 4, 2006: Remembering
missing hero of the Holocaust
Trenton
Times cover story, October 1, 2006: Hero
outsmarted the Nazis. He saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews but could not save
himself
Download
the Raoul Wallenberg Report of the
Swedish-Russian Working Group
Download
the Development of Forensic Database
Methods in the Search of “the Disappeared”
Download the New York Review of Books: THE TRUTH ABOUT WALLENBERG
Download the 2006 Letter to the G8 Summit
Download the 2005
Letter to Vladimir Putin on Raoul Wallenberg
Download AJC’s “The Last Word on Wallenberg?
New Investigations, New Questions”
Last updated: July 16, 2011