As the Director of Data, I oversee two pivotal teams within the organization:1) The Finance & Commerce data team focuses on providing data solutions tailored to FP&A, Corporate Reporting, and Investor Relations needs. We analyze financial data, streamline reporting processes, and ensure accurate insights for key stakeholders.2) Additionally, I lead the Navan Expense data team, which specializes in data solutions for our fintech product. This involves leveraging data analytics to enhance the functionality and user experience of Navan Expense Management, ensuring it remains competitive and meets the evolving needs of our users.In these roles, I am responsible for setting strategic direction, guiding team members, and ensuring that our data initiatives align with broader organizational goals. By fostering collaboration and innovation within these teams, we drive impactful outcomes that drive business growth and success.

Formed and led a new EMEA data team in Amsterdam and Berlin, focusing on Finance, Tax, and Commerce. Collaborated closely with e-staff, product, and finance teams company-wide to address data needs and extract insights.Established and managed a multidisciplinary data team covering Commerce, Finance, Rail, and Admin products. Developed a data roadmap aligned with strategic objectives, shifting from reactive to proactive approaches.Led initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness, such as reducing LOE for payment processes by 90%. Provided mentorship and training for junior team members, revamped global data team hiring and onboarding processes.Translated complex business requirements into user-focused solutions, mapping out various use cases and user journeys. Successfully implemented self-service BI tool Holistics with over 50% adoption, including technical setup, report migration, and company-wide training.Managed data warehousing, ETL processes, and integration efforts, leveraging tech stack including dbt, Snowflake, SQL, Python, git, Rundeck, Tableau, Metabase, and Holistics.

Recharge - Learn - Travel - Give backGot married.Learned a new language.Finished a 12 week Data Science Bootcamp.Traveled the world.Homeless volunteer project.

• Setting up the Analytics capability for both the IoT (Smart Cities, Smart Office, Location Cloud etc) and Automotive business units. Involved in Analytics, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Performance Management.• Work closely with product teams to understand their business needs, conduct comprehensive data analysis, standardize metrics and derive actionable insights.• Build up a reliable and fast reporting structure that enables data-driven decision making within the product organization.• Own the BI architecture and work closely with data scientists and engineers to design and maintain scalable data models and pipelines and that guarantee data availability and quality.• Coach and guide team to make sound technical and architectural decisions.Tech stack: Redshift, AWS, Snowflake, SQL, Python, Tableau, Amplitude

• Team lead for Product Analytics, BI, Voice of Costumer and Customer support• Work closely with product teams to understand their business needs, conduct comprehensive data analysis, standardize metrics and derive actionable insights.• Build up a reliable and fast reporting structure that enables data-driven decision making within the product organization.• Own the BI architecture and work closely with data scientists and engineers to design and maintain scalable data models and pipelines and that guarantee data availability and quality.• Coach and guide team to make sound technical and architectural decisions.• Evaluation and onboard third party tools

• Established and manage a diverse team of business intelligence/data analysts who analyzed and visualized critical aspects of Nokia’s location-based apps and maps websites business using data mining, statistical models, geographical analytics, dashboards, and innovative visualization software.• Drive forward new BI architecture and KPI framework to understand how consumers interact with Nokia’s mobile products across platforms.• Delivering various online dashboards and weekly analytics report to 400+ employees.

Created and implemented operational dashboards with provided instant insight for marketing and product teams by providing them with relevant and timely information, allowing them to adjust marketing levers and incorporate insights into product releases

• Used expertise to interpret and created reporting, summary statistics for Maps Products. Had ownership of establishing and maintaining reporting systems together with IT support • Developed and implement analytical/metrics solutions and supporting internal users with more insights • Supervised data quality in Nokia Maps: combined and reshaped datasets, managed variables, collected statistics

• Established and led CI team driving improvements to the reporting architecture and reduced timelines using advanced business intelligence/data analysis techniques.• Generated customer insights on basis of transactional and customer data for top brands with focus on customer loyalty and personalized marketing opportunities (mobile and interactive marketing) resulting in increased sales per customer.

- Provide insights and analysis on impact of negative customer experiences and resulting costs for long term CS strategy for Europe to better serve customers needs and dissolve inefficiencies in current programs- Selected for leadership program. Deputize regularly for people manager with responsibilities like interviewing new hires, acting as team’s external and internal point of contact.- Develop a user segmentation based on recent user activity trends that to led to differential treatment based on segment values improving efficiencies and improving user satisfaction by 20%

• Built and managed strategic partnerships to drive growth of vertical categories• Strategic analysis for current and past vertical marketing campaigns to ascertain trends and ROI• Successfully initiated first eBay-wide implementation of category specific pricing strategy that quadruple abundance

• Internal exchange programm at eBay.• Implemented price strategy and leverage best practices sharing

Initially positioned as Info Broker from US to Germany.Developed into an international trend consulting network with offices in New York, Munich, Tokyo, and Beijing as well as 20+ scouts in global hotspots.Clients range from Fortune 500 companies such as Chanel and Roland Berger to advertising agencies and management consultants.Specialties:Trend Scouting, Trend Consulting, Consumer Trend Research, Marketing Trends, Marketing Innovations, Mobile Trends, Lifestyle Trends, Consumer Technology Trends