David Savlowitz is CEO & Founder of Competitive Analytics located in Newport Beach, California USA, a professor at the University of California Irvine teaching Predictive Analytics for the Master of Science in Business Analytics program, and visiting professor for Swiss Education Group teaching Business Strategy, Data-Driven Decision Making, and Data Visualization in Leysin and Brig Switzerland. David is also a sought-after speaker on economics, business strategy, predictive analytics, machine learning, AI, consumer trends, and data visualization.Perpetually at the forefront of data science, economics, and analytics, David has over 30 years of experience delivering both strategic and tactical solutions to the world’s most successful organizations. And celebrating his 23rd year in business, Competitive Analytics is an innovative, full-service, multi-industry analytics organization that helps the world’s most successful organizations analyze their data and the competitive forces affecting them . . . with a customized business intelligence approach that addresses the challenges unique to each organization. With deep expertise in advanced mathematics, data science, applied statistics, predictive analytics, and machine learning coupled with best-in-class analytics application programming, clients span all sectors and industries . . . from Fortune 1000 companies such as Boeing, Honda, Toyota, Yamaha, Macy’s/Bloomingdales, Amgen, Extended Stay America, Cetera Financial, Parker Hannifin, Quest Diagnostics, Eaton, Southern California Edison, and Bank of America to the smallest SMBs and niche firms to municipalities such the cities of Anaheim, Riverside, and Ontario, David built a career solving extremely complex problems, creating innovative data and analytics methodologies, synthesizing labyrinthine concepts . . . and breaking many outdated rules in the process.Prior experience includes Director of Market Research at Irvine Company and Senior Analyst at Ernst & Young. David earned a B.S. and M.B.A. from Arizona State University while studying Computer Science, Classical Music, and Jazz Composition. When he has spare time, David reads psychology and philosophy and writes and records original music in his state-of-the-art recording studio. David is married to Erika Savlowitz who is an accomplished investment banker and lawyer specializing in foreign emerging markets . . . and currently unschooling their son August and daughter London!Contact Info: dss@competitiveanalytics.com