Advisor/Investor in Tech/AI startups on product, data, tech, strategy, hiring and culture etc.

• Successfully built and led a 300+ member team of top-tier team of technologists, data engineers, predictive modelers, data scientists, business experts, sales executives, client success experts, qualitative/quantitative researchers and business intelligence professionals that generated over $150 MM of annual data-product revenue and supported over $1.5B of other media revenue.• Architected the data strategy and won Board approval to build a state-of-the-art big-data platform that successfully competes with top technology companies. This platform has enabled Condé Nast to build highly valuable data assets that are leveraged to build deeper consumer relationships and stronger customer partnerships.• Built and launched 3 lines of data product businesses, a data marketing platform and a new healthcare vertical that provide customers best-in-class performance and insights.• Division Lead with P&L ownership and a strong financial background that has driven over $500MM revenue at a CAGR of over 50%• Acquired a company, Citizen Net, to provide AI-driven social media marketing• Acquired a company, Lighthouse Labs, to provide AI-driven performance marketing solutions.• Democratized data using highly interactive dashboards that provide employees and customers actionable data on-demand. This has created a highly data driven culture which is the foundation of future innovation.• Built the framework that enables rapid AI modeling and execution using easily accessible data sets.• Built a real-time audience engagement AI/ML platform which provides personalization. This has increased audience engagement which resulted in higher consumer product sales.• Built an offshore team in Europe and Asia.• Built a platform to acquire new paid consumers using AI to cluster content and predict the optimal customer journey from engagement to conversion.

• Successfully built and led a 300+ member team of top-tier team of technologists, data engineers, predictive modelers, data scientists, business experts, sales executives, client success experts, qualitative/quantitative researchers and business intelligence professionals that generated over $150 MM of annual data-product revenue and supported over $1.5B of other media revenue.• Architected the data strategy and won Board approval to build a state-of-the-art big-data platform that successfully competes with top technology companies. This platform has enabled Condé Nast to build highly valuable data assets that are leveraged to build deeper consumer relationships and stronger customer partnerships.• Built and launched 3 lines of data product businesses, a data marketing platform and a new healthcare vertical that provide customers best-in-class performance and insights.• Division Lead with P&L ownership and a strong financial background that has driven over $500MM revenue at a CAGR of over 50%• Acquired a company, Citizen Net, to provide AI-driven social media marketing• Acquired a company, Lighthouse Labs, to provide AI-driven performance marketing solutions.• Democratized data using highly interactive dashboards that provide employees and customers actionable data on-demand. This has created a highly data driven culture which is the foundation of future innovation.• Built the framework that enables rapid AI modeling and execution using easily accessible data sets.• Built a real-time audience engagement AI/ML platform which provides personalization. This has increased audience engagement which resulted in higher consumer product sales.• Built an offshore team in Europe and Asia.• Built a platform to acquire new paid consumers using AI to cluster content and predict the optimal customer journey from engagement to conversion.

• Successfully built and led a 100+ member team of top-tier talent in technology, data engineering, predictive modeling, data science, qualitative/quantitative research and business intelligence that supported and generated over $200 MM in annual revenue.• Championed use of BI-related KPIs at all levels of organization to gain competitive advantage.• Built largest state-of-the-art big-data platform for healthcare media, using Amazon EMR, Cloudera Hadoop stack, Spark, HDFS, Hive and R.• Implemented real-time data-warehouse using latest big-data technologies to increase BI footprints and increase processing power by over 1000%.• Created three new data businesses, RxConnect, Flu-tracker and HealthReach, propelling over $35 MM of targeted revenue in 2015, up from zero in 2013.• Built data management platform for audience identification and segmentation that commanded premium pricing: 200% higher than the competition. • Launched industry-leading performance optimization and measurement platform that enabled customers to get 10:1 ROI on marketing investments.• Built personalization platform that: enabled user engagement to grow by 300%; reduced marketing costs by 200%; and increased audience quality.• Hired and mentored data scientists throughout US and India to create Data Sciences division which built and deployed proprietary predictive models for niche healthcare campaigns to identify and profitably acquire targeted audiences via a proprietary programmatic platform.• Member of team that led IPO of the company as a healthcare data leader by building big data assets.• Led due diligence assessment of two hugely successful acquisitions (Medpage Today and Doctor Directory) that generated $80 MM of highly profitable revenue.• Built editorial assistance tool, BigEdit, that used analytics to enable the creation of highly engaging content, which tripled user retention.• Launched Market Research platform to monetize market research which delivered $20 MM in revenue.

• Led BI/Data-Warehousing Department that supported over $5 B in revenue with four teams: on-shore application development; data-analytics; data warehouse; and offshore reporting and support.• Developed best-in-class data warehousing platform, EVOLVE, that enabled integrated workflow throughout all parts of the business and provided real-time actionable insights to internal and customer-facing operations.• Designed, implemented and managed audit processes that ensured data quality, system availability and business continuity.• Partnered with business sponsors, program managers, infrastructure teams and vendors to architect and build IT solutions that used data and analytics for all decision-making.• Developed and implemented 5-year data strategy and roadmap.• Developed scheduling optimization platform that escalated ad-serving effectiveness and enabled an increase in annual revenue of $150 MM.• Launched sales planning tool that created cross-platform deals which doubled average deal size.• Created and implemented BI best practices strategy and data governance policy.• Maintained close relationship with business community and created environment of transparency and trust, thereby enabling my team to succeed.