San Francisco Bay Area
* Co-founded PawBeat to give pet owners and vets continuous, clinical-grade health monitoring — a wearable chest harness plus Vetra AI, an assistant built for veterinary clinics. * Took the product to market in Turkey and now lead the US expansion as co-founder and US business lead, owning revenue, marketing, fundraising, and partnerships. * Running a vet pilot program with US clinics and building the distribution and regulatory groundwork for a national rollout.
Taught / teaching the following quantitative subjects: • Data and Decision Analytics • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Business • Probability Theory, Statistics and Statistical Inference
• Responsible for running analytics, performance measurement across all business lines for Walmart eCommerce. KPIs presented to Walmart’s C-Suite on a weekly basis. • Driving actionable insights that shape Walmart North America’s business strategy. Examples include major budget shifts within key verticals depending on business needs and trends. Tactical optimization of channels. • Acquiring new customers at affordable CACs by cooperating with the internal data science team. The results of the effort directly impact the double digit growth we have been enjoying in the past several years. • Ran online pickup and delivery program and grew the $100 Million business to $25 Billion by cooperating with different business stakeholders including marketing, operations, product development, legal and finance teams.
• Managed the $1.1 billion small business top-line driving double digit YoY growth in revenues from SMB segment. • Developed acquisition and retention strategies to build a solid P&L for merchant business line. Administered business cases for different marketing and business development activities. Based on the results of the analysis determined 2012/2013 priorities and executed against them. • Ran financial models to test different scenarios using Excel, SQL and Python. Administered scenario and sensitivity analysis. • Lead project financing efforts to invest and grow the small business segment
• Founded a company centered around sub-prime data to provide clean and robust input for machine learning algorithms • Marketed financial products to the Unbanked / Underbanked population • Sold the company to Infogroup (now known as Data-Axle)