SUMMARY: My core passion and expertise is helping senior leadership teams at sophisticated, global corporations improve their performance and unlock new growth opportunities by extracting powerful analytical insights from internal and market information. These collaborations leverage state-of-the-art advanced analytics, including AI and machine learning technologies. I use data in novel, smart ways along with these methods to deliver results and value. I have particularly deep experience serving consumer-facing B2C industry sectors, with a track record of elevating executives' awareness of the rapid changes in 21st century consumer demand so that they can formulate the best business strategies and investment decisions. I am a Partner in Bain’s Advanced Analytics group and a member of the firm’s Retail practice, and my career has gone full circle as my first role in management consulting was at Bain. Previously, I was a Principal in the Advanced Analytics and Customer Strategy practice at EY-Parthenon. Earlier in my career, I was an Executive Vice President and Global Retail Practice leader at Nielsen, at the time one of the world’s largest information services companies and a pioneer in “big data” long before that term was popular. While at Nielsen, I concurrently served as a co-founder, board member and President of the Demand Institute, a joint venture with The Conference Board that focused on examining shifts in consumer demand and the implications for global firms’ strategies. As a frequent speaker at conferences and author in major business publications, my perspectives on the evolving global consumer economy have been featured in Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. The earlier chapter of my career had a substantial academic focus, including serving as a research fellow at both University of Oxford and Brookings Institution, and as a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I hold an MSc (first honours) in Econometrics that I received as a Marshal scholar, and PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a BSc in International Economics, summa cum laude, from Georgetown University.In my personal life, I am an avid student of research in integrative health, including nutrition and fitness. I apply that knowledge in my own day to day choices and, when the opportunity arises, in my client work.