Ben B. Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX, US

Fort Worth, Texas, US

Decentralized, US

some of the products I worked on: https://docs.chain.link/data-feeds/rates-feeds#overview

New York, NY, US

Led a full stack data and analytics team responsible for everything from data modeling, pipeline development and analytics engineering to exploratory data analysis, decision support and data product development

• Independent consultant offering business advisory services to start-ups, entrepreneurs and small businesses
• Increased new account registrations for a cloud-based platform that consumers use to manage home improvement projects from concept to completion, streamlining the user journey and using gaming elements to hack customer.
• Achieved a greater than 3x return on marketing spending for a fast growing luxury lifestyle brand with simple, actionable refinements to its digital marketing and social media strategies
• Led financial planning and analysis for a seed stage start-up to raise its first round of venture capital
• Currently advising a niche e-commerce site on all aspects of its business strategy

San Jose, California, US

Co-Led the transformation of a $100+ million business with new performance-based ad products and machine learning driven campaign optimization tools, laying the foundation for a fully automated ad auction with bids based on measurable business outcomes rather than impressions

Santa Monica, CA, US

Change agent brought into a newly created role, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer and tasked with turning the company’s data assets into transformative new web services

San Francisco, California, US

• Business lead on a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers and business analysts, using big data and predictive analytics to improve the marketing effectiveness of industry leaders
• Maximized the return on close to $1 billion in annual paid media for a major mobile network operator with computer model simulations of cross-channel ad spending
• Reduced the process time to refresh data sets and update deployed models from over 9 weeks to just 10 business days

Bangalore, IN

• Joined an early growth management consulting firm that later became a global division at Infosys, advancing from Senior Associate to Principal after 18 months with the firm
• Developed the firm's Business Model Innovation (BMI) offering to help large, established companies act more like start-ups when launching new ventures
• Advised a highly regarded technology brand on a strategic pivot with its consumer facing digital platform, articulating the value propositions and go-to-market strategies to pursue opportunities in enterprise software.
• Contributed directly to the acquisition integration framework implemented at a major hi-tech client to support its inorganic growth strategy of 2-6 acquisitions per quarter
• Defined and validated the operating model for cloud infrastructure services at an esteemed hi-tech hardware manufacturer, enabling future SaaS and XaaS rollouts

Bangalore, IN

• “Rockstar” Award recipient for outstanding performance in the Product Innovation Practice
• Scaled sales of a new data center product from zero to almost $200 million in just three years, advising the client on go-to-market strategy and establishing strategic distributor relationships
• Secured over $200 million dollars of revenue, growing at over 20% YoY, on a $3.4 billion acquisition deal by leading the strategy development, planning and actual integration of the target company’s distribution channels
• Designed and gained approval for over $10 million in incentives for hardware channel partners to invest in lead generation and post-sale value-added services

Berkeley, CA, US

Assisted Professor Henry Chesbrough (http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/) with research on models of open innovation in services and the evolution of companies from products to services

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Spent 5 weeks in Bangalore, India and 5 weeks onsite working on Balanced Scorecards for the gaming division of a major software company

New York, New York, US

• Enabled a radically new business model centered on high volume, high frequency algorithmic trading

New York, New York, US

• Top ranked analyst in a rotational program, working in Finance, Trading, Operations, Technology and Risk all within the Derivatives Trading business
• Reduced the daily P&L process in Financial Control from 4-hours to as little as half an hour by writing Excel macros in VBA

• Analyzed performance data on an $8,000,000 microloan portfolio for reporting to the Board of Directors
• Redesigned back-office processes to support a 65% increase in lending activity

• Designed and implemented an integrated relational database on clients and contractors to expedite services and track business trends
• Translated, edited, and interpreted on Spanish and Portuguese assignments

Mba, Business Administration

Ba, Economics And Hispanic Studies