Daniel Valente is the Senior Manager of Product Management for JMP Statistical Discovery LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS that creates interactive and highly visual statistical discovery software designed for scientists and engineers. As the leader of the family of products at JMP, Valente and his team listens to the voice of the customer, monitors the competitive landscape, and drives product direction by developing the JMP product vision and roadmaps. He is also a frequent speaker on the value of analytics, solving problems with data and statistics and sharing discoveries far and wide within an organization. Valente completed an NIH post-doctoral fellowship at the Boys Town National Research Hospital and holds a PhD in architectural sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.