Chief Data Officer
CurrentOversee the strategic data priorities and develop our data engineering, business intelligence and data science and AI/ML capabilities to solve business challenges, and to improve our user, vendor & partner experiences.• Created the company’s comprehensive data and analytics platform with historical and real-time data• Lead the company’s ML/AI initiatives which resulted in a 10% reduction in costs (approx. $10MM) with algorithmic pricing, ranking and scoring algorithms• Manage a multi-year digital transformation under a changing business & team environment while staying on budget• Transform the company’s ethos from historical analyses (backward looking) to predictions & forecasts (forward looking)• Build & coach data science, business intelligence and data engineering teams• Help all stakeholders to develop a data-driven approach to drive business impact• Spearhead an experimental mindset to solve issues across the company; deployed company-wide A/B testing framework