Adam Braff Email & Phone Number

Providence, RI, US

Independent advisor to investors and corporate senior leaders on how to obtain more business value from their investments in data and analytics. Visit https://braff.co for details.

Providence, Rhode Island, US

In parallel with his consulting work, Adam teaches data analytics at the graduate level, gives lectures, and is a capstone project advisor in various departments at Brown, including guest lectures on business analytics in the Data Science Institute and creating and teaching an Executive MBA class on Data for Good.

New York, NY, US

Adam teaches a graduate class in Business Analytics and Data Visualization, bringing case examples from his industry experience as well as real data from a range of alternative-data providers, and emphasizing the use of a structured problem-solving approach.

Stamford, Connecticut, US

Adam was brought into Point72 to build the hedge fund industry’s preeminent data acquisition team. Both personally and through the team he assembled, Adam negotiated multi-year deals for a wide range of data types, from commercially available platforms to alternative data to truly proprietary new sources. He served all sectors of the fundamental long/short.

Zurich, Zurich, CH

• Adam led a 170-person team and served as the most senior data and analytics officer for Zurich Insurance, a top-10 global commercial and retail insurance company, with the team principally sitting in Slovakia, Spain.
• Created a 5-year strategic roadmap for data and analytics across the company
• Identified and executed on a $2 million/year cost savings initiative, while at the same time growing headcount in necessary functions, via a near-shoring strategy
• Launched a continent-wide big data delivery center in Barcelona, with projected bottom-line impact of $120 million over 5 years. Adam selected the site, conducted the RFP process to identify a strategic partner, and.

El Segundo, CA, US

For the satellite service provider DirecTV, then the #2 pay-TV company in the world, Adam served as the most senior analytics executive, overseeing business analytics in support of the $24 billion U.S. revenue organization and its 20 million subscribers. Adam led a team of 70 data scientists, statisticians, and analytical managers to drive customer.

New York, NY, US

• In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, with data on 60 million customers sitting in silos, JPMorgan Chase hired Adam to solve how to connect data from across all Chase consumer businesses to make tangible, near-term.
• $80 million from credit risk actions, making better underwriting, line sizing, and collections decisions, such as through the use of new algorithms tied to Chase’s exclusive access to checking account data
• $40 million in improved marketing, targeting, and customization, such as through the creation of more accurate income and asset estimation models that enabled the efficient reallocation of bankers’ time
• $25 million in fraud-fighting initiatives, including the inaugural private-sector use of Palantir’s Gotham platform in combination with data sets curated and assembled by Adam’s team
• $15 million in operational cost reduction, including a database and algorithm to optimize predictions of which contact information to use to reach customers for critical mortgage-related issues.While at JPMorgan Chase.

US

• Over the course of a decade at McKinsey, Adam’s client work spanned industries, geographies, and functions—all connected by an analytical thread. Adam led teams in mining large datasets and running controlled market.
• For telcos in four countries, Adam launched and optimized call center “save desks" to sustainably fight customer churn; in two cases, bottom-line impact was $200 million and $100 million/year
• At an integrated Latin American telco, Adam led an analytics transformation that uncovered more than $80 million in annual EBITDA opportunities, and helped launch the first wave of implementation pilots to capture this.
• Adam improved analytics within the B2B telesales division of a large U.S. telco, enabling the capture of more than $50 million in annual revenue, through the creation of enhanced management information systems and.
• For a pioneering fintech company, Adam led a team that created the prototype database and algorithm to determine true customer lifetime value, then used this platform to identify more than $40 million in run-rate.

US

Litigated complex civil and criminal cases at largest firm in Washington on behalf of clients in technology and healthcare sectors.

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