15+ years’ experience leading global AI, pricing and advanced analytic teams with a proven track record of researching, developing and deploying leading-edge solutions at scale, which drive over $400MM in annualized profit. Internationally recognized thought and research leader in AI systems. Seasoned leader of leaders, overseeing teams in heavily matrixed environments.- Introduced advanced machine learning at Expedia, initially for traveler recommendations, then expanding to forecasting, revenue management, pricing, advertising, content management and anomaly detection. Developed the backbone technologies for Generative AI/LLM applications, and one of the first applications for Q&A with reviews.- Internationally recognized thought leader in multistakeholder recommendation systems.- Pioneered and headed pricing at Medtronic International, winning the Marketing Excellence Award twice, for new product pricing and education, delivering over $60 million in incremental value.- Headed pricing at a Top 10 North American bank, delivering $35 million in incremental profit.- Pricing subject matter expert for Innosuisse, the Swiss government Commission for Technology and Innovation.- Presented at numerous machine learning and pricing conferences based on innovations and applied research (R&D) successes (ACM conference on Recommendation Systems, Professional Pricing Society, IQPC, eyeforpharma, eyefortravel, IFITT); Collaborations with leading institutions (University of Geneva, EHL, ETH, Cardiff, Notre Dame, University of Toronto, University of Nicosia, MIT, etc.); Sponsored multiple data science competitions (Kaggle, ICDM, ASA, IFITT); Published multiple articles in both academic and industry journals. Over 500 Google citations.https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/vams/https://recsys.acm.org/recsys16/industry-session-2/#content-tab-1-3-tab