Andrew Jakubowski

Head of Seeds R&D Digital

Greater Madison Area

About

• Experienced analytics, governance, data science, ML Ops, and data leader focused on innovation, value creation, and enterprise optimization. • Trusted leader and influencer with proven experience working across industries, business, and IT. • Proven track record of technical leadership, value creation, building and modernizing effective data, analytics/BI, ML Ops and data science teams • Proven people leader with strong record of building and running strong and engaged teams. Record of developing team members into influential leaders. • Excellent communicator and influencer amongst technical and non-technical audiences at all levels. • Experienced data scientist with extensive knowledge in statistics, experimental design, model development and deployment, insights, machine learning, and data visualization.

Experience

  • Syngenta (3 yrs 11 mos)
    • Head of Seeds R&D Digital
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      I lead the R&D Digital team that is accountable for creating and managing the digital platforms and capabilities that enable our Seeds R&D pipelines. This includes IT and data platforms, data science, bioinformatics, and other digital capabilities for trait and germplasm pipelines.

    • Head of Seeds R&D Analytics, Data Science and IT
      Sep 2022 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • American Family Insurance (6 yrs 7 mos)
    • Enterprise Data Science, Governance & Analytics Director
      Nov 2020 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

      • Accountable for Enterprise Data & Decision Science Center of Excellence • Accountable for creation and implementation of Enterprise Data Governance function • Accountable for creation and implementation of Enterprise ML Ops & Engineering function • Accountable for aligning analytics and BI capabilities across all Enterprise operating company data and analytics functions.

    • Research & Analytics Director | Data Science & Engineering | Digital Transformation Office
      Feb 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Accountable for leading central Enterprise Data Science function

    • Advanced Customer and Marketing Analytics Manager
      Mar 2016 - Feb 2019 · 3 yrs

  • Monsanto Company (2 yrs 10 mos)
    • Discovery Analytics Lead
      Dec 2015 - Mar 2016 · 4 mos

    • Latin America Analytics Lead
      Aug 2015 - Dec 2015 · 5 mos

    • Statistical Geneticist
      Jun 2013 - Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (4 yrs 5 mos)
    • Research Assistant/PhD Candidate
      Jan 2010 - May 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    • Research Assistant/MS Student
      Jan 2009 - Dec 2010 · 2 yrs