Nathaniel Payne, Phd (裴内森) Email & Phone Number

Newport Beach, Ca, Us

As CEO of CLD, I help international brands unlock sustainable growth in China and around the world by building hyper-personalized data-driven digital experiences, providing strategic insights, and unlocking localized content. As CEO, I am responsible for driving overall business strategy, growth, and operations across multiple regions. I also oversee product development, client relations, and global market expansion while ensuring profitability and innovation. For the last 8 years, our global team has worked with over 80 of the largest brands in the world. We have a deep understanding of the unique needs of international brands and have helped some of the most prestigious names achieve success in China, Europe, and around the world including Tiffany & Co, Dior, De Beers, La Prairie, Ralph Lauren, Chopard, Guerlain, Graff, and Delvaux. As the First Partner of Salesforce on Alibaba Cloud to go live, we bring global companies into China & Asia while sustaining their growth abroad, leveraging innovative technology, engaging content, and strategic expertise to drive brand growth. We are a global implementer and strategic partner for ChatLabs & Salesforce, and have been recognized for our expertise, winning the 2022 Alibaba Cloud Strategic Partnership Award and the 2024 Salesforce on Alibaba Cloud Strategic Partnership MVP. Today, our marketing, content, technology, and strategy solutions integrate all major social channels to build 360 customer views and automate omnichannel experiences. Our commerce solutions create highly converting store experiences directly on key social channels including WeChat, Douyin, and Xiaohungshu. Our dataflow solutions leverage an innovative, scalable, and flexible data mesh technology to collect, unify, and activate social data from all channels into one single 360° customer view while ensuring full compliance with China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL).

Newport Beach, Ca, Us

Dygital9 is a global managed services, security, and intelligence company, serving over 100 clients across various industries. We specialize in helping businesses enter new and emerging markets, including the Middle East, by building and managing complex technology and business solutions. We also support our clients by managing their complete business operations, driving revenue growth, and reducing costs.As Managing Partner and CTO, I oversee our global operations, intelligence, security, and technology initiatives across six continents. I also help drive the overall business strategy, growth, and operations across multiple regions, while supporting product development, client relations, global market expansion, and financial stability through profitability and innovation. I am leading the development of our intelligent, federated content solution, which leverages AI to deliver content seamlessly worldwide. Additionally, I am spearheading the creation of our next-generation AI Security Operations Center (SOC) product and platform in partnership with MSOLS and our global teams.As Managing Partner, I also drive the commercial setup, strategy, and international growth of our business. Today, our global teams focus on operational excellence, enabling corporate growth and development while delivering solutions across IT, finance, marketing, operations, and sales units.For more information, visit Dygital9 today: https://www.dygital9.com/

NOQii Digital is an international marketing, technology, and digital transformation company that specializes in helping businesses and brands deploy strategic digital marketing solutions in new and emerging markets. Our critical pillars are marketing, trade, technology, intelligence, and investment. With a team of experienced professionals based in the China, India, Europe, as well as Canada and the United States, we offer a unique blend of local expertise and global perspective for our clients and partners. This enables our team to develop tailored strategies that resonate with diverse audiences across the world. Capability wise, we specialize in helping clients enter and conduct business in the Chinese market as well as across Asia. We also facilitate market entry and operations into China, Europe, India, South America, Africa, as well as other Asian countries. We facilitate trade, run broker networks, manage global omnichannel advertising campaigns, determine demand for new products, run new product launches, and set up new entities for our clients. We have deep expertise in legal and compliance, payments, as well as new market entry. We also build technology products and platform products, and are Salesforce experts.As a Managing Partner, I support our global operations, technology, finance, and compliance practices across 5 continents. I also drive the overall business strategy, growth, and operations across multiple regions with my two partners, while supporting product development, client relations, global market expansion, and financial stability through profitability and innovation. Our global teams are focused on enabling sales, marketing, and operational excellence for our clients. This includes creating innovating payment, marketing, and sales solutions that generate leads, drive our client's revenue, optimize marketing & advertising spend, and ultimately create profitability. For more information contact us today: https://www.noqii.com/

Surrey, British Columbia, Ca

Contivos is a global, cybersecurity, managed services & enterprise technology company with over 100 clients in a variety of industries. We specialized in running cyber security operations for enterprise clients, managing servicing deployments, and building and deploying technology that can be deployed in new and emerging markets. We build and maintain data centers and servers, applications, platforms, intelligent systems and apps that leverage generative AI & LLM's. We build and maintain websites, are experts in financial systems technologies, and have a team with specialized experience in agentic systems and global cyber security operations.As a Managing Partner, I drive our operations, intelligence, and delivery work across 6 continents. I also drive the overall business strategy, growth, and operations across multiple regions with my partner, while supporting product development, client relations, global market expansion, and financial stability through profitability and innovation. Our global teams are focused on delivering the highest standards of technology implementation, including project management for large implementations. For more information contact us today: https://www.contivos.com/

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

I taught advanced quantitative methods, statistics & management science to students in the BBA and MBA programs. In my courses, I help students understand how to apply mathematical techniques to business decision-making, while emphasizing the opportunities where mathematics and computing can be applied to solve critical business management problems. Topics covered include linear & non-linear programming, transportation problems, network planning, queuing theory, regression analysis, and modeling techniques. I also cover market research analysis, forecasting (including time series methods), portfolio optimization, security analysis, portfolio construction, performance measurement, quantitative research designs, and much more!

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Management and technology consulting supporting the Director of Technology on diverse areas of the organization's global technology stack, including enterprise architecture and application management, cloud migration and operations, DevOps, data management (including database and data lake management for operations, financial, supply chain, asset, and parts), advanced analytics including data mining and predictive platform development, autonomous vehicle and site set-up and optimization, etc. • Conducted an organizational technology review and created a full stack Microsoft Azure based technology architecture ready to satisfy multi-continental reporting, operations, autonomy, financial, and data science requirements. This included satisfying data warehousing, data lake, data integration, sensor data ingest, connected asset, and refinery optimization / yield requirements.• As part of the platform and technology blueprinting process, created short and long term project roadmaps for the C-suite leadership team including detailed budgets, project plans for the next 24 months for the various projects, project requirements processes, and system integration plans that were based on the organization's current technological state and long term goals. This work included creating an overall technology road map to support multiple areas of the organization, and included detailed work in the areas of autonomous vehicle and autonomous site operations, as well as data based operational excellence planning work.

Ca

• As Finning's Global Analytics & Data Engineering leader, I lead agile teams that build & manage infrastructure and technology solutions across multiple continents, measure success, solve complex problems for both internal & external customers using analytics insights derived from intelligent machines, support the global success of our eCommerce business through the development of pricing, merchandising, and competitive intelligence tools that enable our customers and sales teams to win, support the movement of our customer's products around the world using data driven freight solutions, and manage a connected cloud that is the backbone of our digital enterprise. I also lead & support our organization's rapid expansion into multiple new technology and analytics areas. Through this work, Finning is able to use insights to transform our customer's performance, thereby enabling the organization as a whole to build and power a better world!• As an innovation champion, I collaborate with, support, and provide technical & strategic guidance to my colleagues across the organization in operations, marketing, supply chain / logistics, finance, business performance, human resources, and other areas. I also support the development of a central source of data for the organization which can be used for many revenue & cost optimizing activities.• As a non-traditional global leader, I actively engineer reporting, automation, AI, and datawarehouse products that enable our teams to be successful. This includes working with tools and languages such as Java, R, Python, Tableau, BitBucket, JIRA, AdWords, Amazon AWS & RedShift, Cisco Networking, SAP technology solutions (used heavily in South America), as well as other tools & languages.• As an internal learning champion, I am responsible for developing talent across the organization by mentoring and coaching. I also work as an operational leader inside Finning with direct P&L responsibility.

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

• Design and teach upper level courses covering topics including statistics, statistical computing, business information systems, optimization, simulation analysis, table structures & data mining, mathematical functions & linear programming, mathematical modelling, business mathematics, operations research, data modelling & strategic planning. I have received outstanding feedback from students in every class, and teach in both the full time & part time studies programs. I am also deeply involved in curriculum planning in redesign.

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

• I built the curriculum for & taught COMP 2051, Advanced Web Development with JavaScript and AJAX. This course featured an expanded exploration of JavaScript and AJAX. Topics include all fundamentals of the JavaScript language, Javascript visualization libraries including D3.js, back end server system technologies & languages including Node.js & PHP, and database development using SQL. The course is a capstone course that requires the students to building fully functioning & robust mobile & web applications

Vancouver , British Columbia, Ca

• As a member of the executive management team (EMT) I am responsible for leading the direction and overseeing the strategy, architecture, development & management of all strategic data assets & analytics technology at Cymax while simultaneously driving revenue & growth and optimizing advertising spend. • Reporting to the CEO, I collaborate with, support, and provide technical & strategic guidance to my EMT colleagues, their teams in merchandising, marketing, operations, finance, logistics, technology, people, as well as our Board of Directors. I also serve as the external customer & partner data expert for various business units. My teams are responsible for building and maintaining our organization's Azure base data warehouse, leading cross organization reporting, strategy & analysis, building financial integrations & fintech which supports our Great Plains system, driving paid media & revenue optimization through automation, conducting cross organization testing, optimizing freight / logistics, measuring customer service, as well as many other revenue & cost optimizing functions.• I develop strategies for all internal teams which ensure they exceed their business objectives and results. This includes developing metrics, reports, and continuous improvement programs that provide vision, direction, transparency & accountability for all lines of business.• As a non-traditional executive leader, I actively develop reporting, automation, ML, and database tools that enable our teams to be successful. This includes working daily with SQL Server, SSRS / *IS / *AS, Power BI, R, the .NET Framework (Including C# & VB), GIT / BitBucket, AdWords, as well as a variety of other tools & languages. • Responsible for hiring top talent for our major technology, business and media projects. I also lead and manage internal teams facing aggressive deadlines and targets, develop talent, and work as an operational executive inside Cymax with significant P&L responsibility.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

• Lead data science & engineering at Cardinal Path• Over the last two years, I have planned and / or led major enterprise architecture, analytics, and technology projects at clients including Bombardier Recreational Products, Bridgestone, Edmunds.com, Google, iCIMS, Homeaway, Heifer International, Kellogg School of Management, Forever 21, Fandango, Raise, rue21, Travel Alberta, United Airlines, Universal Music Group, US Cellular, Opportunity International, Wehkamp, and others. This work includes leading on site sessions with senior management, technical leadership, analytics, and engineering teams• As the company’s predictive analytics subject matter expert, I spend a significant amount of time leading the technical design, development, testing, refinement, and deployment of predictive, machine learning algorithms. The deployment of these algorithms enables our clients to understand and forecast their entire business operations more accurately, target the right consumers, optimize their digital and non-digital properties, and buy advertising more effectively• Lead external & internal analytics, data science & engineering teams. This includes supporting human resources in the hiring of new staff, while also mentoring and developing internal staff working in analysis, strategy, data science, or engineering / developer roles.• As the cloud development technical lead, I design & build fault-tolerant, high-performance, distributed, systems that power our data science, marketing, and operations projects both internally and externally. This includes building on and managing cloud servers on AWS, Google & Microsoft• Co-lead product development. This includes product design and evaluation, product budgeting, sales and marketing analysis, business development, as well as prototype development. This work also includes evangelizing the benefits of potential data science and infrastructure products both inside and outside of the organization.

• Engineered & executed analytics solutions for our large clients, which include Telus, Kraft Hockeyville, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (for properties including Battle of the Bands, Cover Me Canada, Dragon's Den, Heartland, Live Right Now), and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In this role, I led insight generation based on measurement reporting and analysis. I have led focus groups, overseen A/B testing, created dashboards, and written & presented reports to various senior D & C level audiences.• Built & led a team of 7 developers, software engineers & analysts who conducted research into (and built) new software & analytics products for our teams internally, as well as external clients. In this role, I evaluated the demand for & profitability of products in development and lead marketing, sales, and design as it relates to new product categories. I also wrote the Canadian Media Fund application; an application that successfully raised over $400,000 in funding for the projects I was leading.• Technically, I was involved in a number of other projects which demonstrate my ability to develop and engineer in a production setting. A small selection of projects that I have been involved in are:1) Created a comprehensive library of R programs which contain clustering, classification, and stochastic time series tools. These were used for analysis on all of our properties.2) Wrote a new data uploader system using PHP which was used live on production for Live Right Now3) Created a comprehensive graphing library which was used on company dashboards using D3.js & Highcharts, Angular.js, PHP, MySQL, Ajax, etc.4) Created a comprehensive library of SQL scripts (wrapped in PHP functions), which enabled our team to automatically deploy statistical analysis across our projects in real time5) Created and prototyped a fully functioning Hadoop set-up6) Built schema for a variety of large data warehouses projects for prospective clients

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

• Taught finance, intermediate financial & managerial accounting (7 semesters), consumer behaviour & psychology (4 semesters), and organizational structure, strategy & change (4 semesters). To date, have taught and mentored over 2,200 undergraduate & graduate business students, helping over 200 secure co-op, exchange, and permanent employment.

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

• Created the 2011-12 budgets (IFPBS), conducted monthly encumbrance reconciliations (FINS & FAST), as well as detailed critical analysis of past and current operations. Created the department’s 5 year strategic enrollment, communications & recruitment plan. Worked with our team to plan, coordinate & execute the 2010 graduate programs recruiting campaign, attracting 176 quality applicants to our fall 2010 programs. Organized and executed consultation sessions for our 2011 M.Ed & Ed.D programs as well as the 2011 - 2015 recruitment campaign. Managed a staff of 3 CUPE employees, and all ongoing Ed.D & M.Ed programs.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Worked as a researcher and statistician with the Canadian Board Diversity Council. In this position, I developed research that was an important part of the 2012 Canadian Board Diversity Council Annual Report Card, as well as the Globe & Mail FP500 Diversity Rankings. I also led the research activities & analytic analysis for the 2011 Canadian Diversity Annual Report Card. This report was distributed nationally in the fall of 2011 to senior leaders and governors across Canada.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Artificial Intelligence & Information Studies

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science (Interactive Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering)

Masters Of Science, Statistics (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Statistical Computing)

Bachelors Of Business Administration, Management And Organizational Studies, Marketing, Operations Research