Chad Erman Chad Erman is the BI Lead at Southwestern Energy, a leading exploration and production company focused on natural gas operating in the United States. Chad has worked with IBM Cognos software for over 8 years, Data Warehousing for over 10 years, and has been involved in leading three enterprise wide BI/DW implementations at 3 major corporations. Under Chad’s leadership, Southwestern Energy received the Operational Excellence Award for Business Intelligence at Cognos Forum in 2008.