Marco Russo is a Business Intelligence consultant and mentor working for SQLBI.com. His main activities are related to data warehouse relational and multidimensional design, but he is also involved in the complete development lifecycle of a BI solution. He has particular competence and experience in sectors like financial services (including complex OLAP designs in banking area), manufacturing, gambling and commercial distribution.

Marco is also a book author and has participated in writing "Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services," "PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning" and the new "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model."

Apart from his BI-related publications, he also wrote some books about .NET programming. He is also a speaker in international conferences like PASS Summit, SQLRally and SQLBits.

He achieved the unique SSAS Maestro certification and is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer with several Microsoft Certified Professional certifications.