Verodat

As a Data Advisor at Verodat, I specialise in delivering innovative AI-driven data solutions that transform how businesses operate and make decisions. With a passion for leveraging cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems, I help organisations harness the power of accurate and reliable data to fuel their AI initiatives.

At Verodat, we have developed a deep understanding of data supply chains and the critical role they play in the success of AI applications. My background includes a blend of technical expertise and strategic thinking, allowing me to bridge the gap between technology and business needs.
I work closely with clients to understand their unique challenges and provide tailored solutions that drive measurable results. I design and implement data strategies that ensure high-quality, accurate data for AI projects, enhancing performance and outcomes. I lead workshops and training sessions to empower teams with the knowledge and tools they need to succeed in a data-driven world.

I am always open to discussing how innovative data solutions can drive your business forward. Feel free to reach out to me for a conversation about your data challenges and goals. Let's explore how we can transform your data into a strategic asset for AI.

Executive Data Advisor

gather360

gather360 seamlessly sources, structures and optimises data, and connects it directly to the AI-enabled tooling of your choice. Deploy the right data to AI with gather360.

Senior Account Executive

Product Manager

Product Marketing Manager

Cassidy Travel

Managed the product strategy and development of websites for three travel companies; Cassidy Travel, Classic Resorts & Cassidy Golf. Identified usability issues and scoped features to improve. Created new features to enhance product experience. Managed all communications with an external team of developers overseeing Website Product Experience, Customer Journey, Marketing & Lead Assignment, Advertising, Branding, SEO & Web Content.

Defined new features and optimised performance. Improved usability, demonstrating notable improvements in conversion rates and on-page metrics.

Website Product Manager

Planned online marketing strategy & managed team to execute marketing activities.
Generated increase in online revenue and increase in PPC revenue

Online Marketing Manager

Web Summit

Planned & executed highly segmented email marketing & attendee fulfilment email campaigns for four global conferences. Worked with multiple teams to create a comprehensive communications strategy.

Head of Email Marketing

UKtoStay in the EU

Created a national (UK), grassroots and cross-party movement built to empower people who want to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU. Generated website content to secured 500,000+ impressions throughout the campaign and coordinate a volunteer network of 500 on the ground campaigners.

Co-Founder & Content Director

Google

Temporary Contract with Harvey Nash for Google Ireland Ltd.

Coordinate three EMEA wide Sales Training Programs for different areas of the Global Business Organisation. Developed program from pilot phase to global success & help project manage one of Google’s largest global training programs.

Training Coordinator

Temporary Contract with Harvey Nash for Google Ireland Ltd.

Coordinated interview schedules for a high volume of external and internal interview candidates.

Recruitment Coordinator

WDM Group

Publication editor, responsible for content planning, securing interviews, writing and editing content and liaising with designers to create final proof. Managed design, advertising and content team to publish monthly online issue to large subscriber base. 

Secured interviews with C-Level executives in major global logistics firms such as DHL, Pall-Ex, Maersk and others. Improved SEO performance of website.

Editor of Supply Chain Digital

Village People Magazines

Worked with the Editor in Chief on two publications, copy-editing articles, writing bespoke editorial and producing page plans. Researched new distribution areas for additional publications, contacting prospective advertisers.

Freelance Writer

The Medwire (Student Newspaper)

Co-founded and developed an independent online student news website and print magazine. Primarily responsible for sourcing, editing and uploading daily news stories, managing a team and developing the website to add more content, improve aesthetics and increase traffic.

Online Editor

Solar Essence

Team leader in a busy call centre, handling warm and cold leads to sell solar heating.

Profile Salesperson

If it takes ages to get the data you need, I'm here to help. 

I work with core business teams to design actionable reports that drive value. And deliver them fast (think weeks, not months). 

Say goodbye to over-complicated dashboards, massive Excel reports, or exporting data from systems. 

Get valuable dashboards or alerts, with the information you need, at the moment you need them.

We specialise in delivering forecasting solutions fast that grow with your business.

-----------------------

Who do you work with? 

Think Evolve Solve has spent the past 10 years honing the workflow for delivering data projects. 

So much so, that we can deliver data projects faster than the competition. 

We've spent the past 5 years developing easy-to-use tools and frameworks that help non-technical people convert data into actionable information. 

We've supported business teams to:

→ Reduce data delivery time by 94%
→ Give 60% of time back to analysts
→ Upskill the board and business to work with data
→ Minimise data quality issues

Everyone should have the power to use data to make informed decisions, and our approach focuses on empowering teams to do just that. 

With a background in business and a knack for simplifying complex data concepts, I've helped business teams in multiple industries to unlock the potential of their data and drive growth and success.

If your data projects are taking too long, your business teams aren't getting the data they need, or your data quality is an unknown quantity, reach out to me, I love to chat :) 

Book a call - https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/copeland

Find out more - https://thinkevolvesolve.ie/

Ella Copeland

Ryvu Therapeutics

ONE OF THE CEE LEADERS IN DRUG DISCOVERY
Established in 2007 as Selvita and in 2019 after after spin out of the services segment renamed to Ryvu Therapeutics. Ryvu has two drugs in clinical phases & first Polish drug accepted for clinical trials in USA.
TEN PARTNERINGS WITH GLOBAL COMPANIES
Merck, Menarini Group, Galapagos and Exelixis are global biotech companies that signed partnerships with Ryvu in recent years.

DATA SCIENCE & LEADERSHIP ACHIEVEMENTS IN MY ROLE
• Orchestrated a significant expansion of the department, scaling the team from 5 to 20 professionals across Data Science, Bioinformatics, and Computer-Aided Drug Design disciplines.
• Led the coordination and submission of a grant proposal worth 20 million Polish zloty, aimed at creating a human-centric innovative data platform. This initiative highlights Ryvu's dedication to pioneering research and technological progress in generative AI for drug discovery.
• Recently initiated LLM assistant project supporting scientists in improved information search and analysis of project results and documentation
• In 2024, the Data Science department implemented cutting-edge machine learning solutions that optimized workflows, resulting in a reduction of over 10 hours of manual work per week and enhancing performance by at least seven times.
• Pioneered two pivotal data integration and analytics initiatives, personally guiding a cross-functional team of 10 members and providing transparent progress updates to board members. • • • • Additionally, led the second project to a stage where delegation was feasible.
• Successfully guided and mentored three senior team members to transition into leadership roles as team leaders.
• Crafted a comprehensive Data Science strategy for the years 2023-2024
• Fostered robust interdepartmental communication, integrating data integration and data science into every department's strategic roadmap for 2024-2025, thereby enhancing Ryvu's overarching strategy.

Director of Data Science

Warsaw University of Technology

POLISH DEVELOPERS RANKED 3RD IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HACKERANK
Polish developers are third in the world whereas Warsaw University of Technology is top Polish university the Engineering & Technology table of the QS Ranking by Subject making it also top contributor to Poland’s place in the world in computer science.

TEACHING DATA SCIENCE – ALGORITHMS, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS FOR BIG DATA PROBLEMS
I am doing workshops for students who are willing to get into Data Science world and become practitioners:
• “Text mining – knowledge retrieval from text datasets” in Python since 2022, previously in R
• Artificial Neural Networks, part of block "Artificial Intelligence Methods" in R, lectures in 2019

Lecturer - Postgrad studies: Data Science – algorithms, tools and applications for Big Data problems

Kozminski University

NUMBER ONE IN CEE REGION - FINANCIAL TIMES RANKINGS
Among others:
#1 European Business Schools 2021
#1 Executive Education 2022
#1 EMBDA 2021

TEACHING MACHINE LEARNING AND AI TO EXECUTIVES
I am a lecturer at one of the best AI for executives in Poland "Executive Data Science and Big Data" where I teach:
• How Data Science can supplement decision making process
• How Data Science project life cycle looks like
• Intuition behind each step of Data Science and machine learning

Lecturer - Post-graduate studies: Executive Data Science and Big Data

Sotrender

AMONGST TOP POLISH AI COMPANIES ACCORDING TO STATE OF POLISH AI 2021
Sotrender is Polish leader in analysing social media and Facebook ads. The AI team was established thanks to grant funding and its effort lead to Sotrender being honoured as one of the top AI Polish companies.

MY ACCOMPLISHEMENTS AS LEADER OF AI TEAM
• Met all the milestones of grant 1 focused on ML supported content marketing worth over 4M Polish zloty
• ML models from grant 1 lead to creating new features in Sotrender app
• Met all the milestones of first phase and moved to the second one of grant focused on ML optimisation of social media ads 5M Polish zloty
• ML models from phase l and II of 2nd grant lead to creation of new product.
• Merged two teams AI and Analytics and lead 12 people in its peak
• Led the AI team through Covid times and transformed fully to remote work

MY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Management of AI team
• Both hands-on and managerial experience in conducting R&D projects in areas NLP, Computer
Vision, predictive modelling
• Responsible for the analytics & reporting services (planning, pricing, offer creation etc.)
• Building AI & Data Strategy together with CSO & CTO
• Member of Executive team

Head of AI

Machine Learning Team Lead

Data Science Team Leader

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Sages

ML Trainer

Tagvenue

Advisor

Allegro

•   Member   of   team   responsible   for   personalization   concepts
•   Along   with   the   team   responsible   for   improvement   of   Recommendation   Systems
•   Working   on   applications   of   word   embeddings   and   deep   learning   in   Recommender   Systems
•   Research   and   development   of   new   approaches   to   various   analytical   problems
•   Assessment   of   other   analytical   initiatives   within   the   organization

Data Scientist

•   Providing   data   and   analytical   expertise   to   projects
•   Carries   out   projects   for   public,   retail,   industry   and   medical   sectors
•   Leads   developers/implementation   teams   (2-3   people).
•   Principal   consultant   in   Customer   Intelligence   and   Text   Analytics   areas.
•   Prepares   and   delivers   presentations   to   customers   at   the   highest   levels   of   management.
•   Understanding   client   business   pains   and   translating   them   into   solutions
•   Conducts   project   requirements   gathering   and   participates   in   and   leads   design   process.

Analytical/Industry Consultant

Groupon

Summary:
=================================================================
Since April I was assigned to be part of International teams and asked to combine my Polish and EMEA duties. However, every month the ratio of my responsibitlies increased in favour of international matters and eventually it was expected from me to become a bridge between my region and HQ. Usually I was assigned to project requiring above average data processing and data analysing skills.
_________________________________________________________________________

Since September a member of EMEA Analytics Team - duties:
• Engagement in projects covering data from new sources, for example building dashboards to monitor shipment performance, 
• Data quality analysis of data recently attached to Data Warehouse
• Identification of ETL errors and suggest solution
• Taking care requiring purely technical solutions for example regular expressions 
• Being updated with flat tables query changes
• Query and data structure support to other team members
________________________________________________________________________

Since April a member of Report Engineering International Team - duties:
• engaged in global projects
• direct co-operation with EMEA Business Intelligence HQ
• solving international JIRA tickets
• work from EMEA Business Intelligence HQ when necessary
________________________________________________________________________

General Duties:
• Query maintenance, optimization with regards to efficiency and adjustment to current business environment through updates and testing
• Integration and development of systems, tools and databases supporting and optimizing work of department of business intelligence
• Cooperation with frontoffice and backoffice departments and management in the delivery and interpretation of business intelligence data to support management processes and decision-making
• Supporting the development of skills of other Business Intelligence Department team members

Business Intelligence Analyst

Summary:
=================================================================
My first major task was to successfully complete transition from Exasol to Teradata within one month time. Generally, it required translation of all already build queries to Teradata SQL and communication with Business Intelligence HQ using JIRA in terms of data structure, accesses or support. Simultaneously, I had to execute report requests coming from all departments from every country belonging Emerging Markets region. In the next months I had to prepare SQL background for every report in EMA region, apply improvements to running reports, keep updates of changing data structure and KPI defintions.
__________________________________________________________________________

Duties:
• Responsible for SQL query background for every EMA report
• Translation of SQL queries from Exasol system to Teradata 
• Further automation of reporting with Teradata system 
• EMA sales reports development 
• Reporting to Heads of EMA region 
• Ad-hoc analysis and reports preparation for department directors at Groupon Poland 
• Development of reports, dashboards in SalesForce.com

Junior Financial Controller - Business Intelligence Department

Summary:
=================================================================
At the moment of my transfer to Finance Department Groupon Poland was informed to become reporting center for Emerging Markets region (EMA) and sales analysts team required to extended. In the first half I was responsible for reviving and improving reports that due to lack of work power were not ongoing. In the second half, I was assigned to familarize with Exasol data warehouse, data structue, basic sales queries and reports, run them and prepare to transition to Teradata data warehouse.
__________________________________________________________________________

Duties:
• EMA sales reports development 
• Reporting to Heads of EMA region
• Data extraction and analysis for EMA region (SQL, Exasol database)
• Ad-hoc analysis and reports preparation for department directors at Groupon Poland 
• Development of reports, dashboards in SalesForce.com

Junior Financial Controller - Finance Department

Summary:
=================================================================
I was employed by Groupon Shooping Poland as an City Planner whose goal was to provide analytical support and insight. This meant to squezze every piece of data I received mostly from finance department and extract every drop of information from it. Furthermore, I had to fulfill also typical City Planner duties which include mainly on adherence to deals feature schedule by co-ordinating work of Sales representatives and collaboration simultaneously with pre- or post-sales departments. In brief, it was all about planning sales and meeting target.
__________________________________________________________________________

Duties:
•	Scheduling deals featured on Groupon Shopping Poland
•	Coordinating work of 10 Sales Representatives
•	Market analysis particularly focused on new trends and innovations identification
•	Ad-hoc analysis and reports preparation for Shopping Poland Director and Regional Goods EMA Director
•	Chief City Planner for electronics segment
•	Close co-operation with other sales oriented departments (Local, Travel, Customer Care, Graphics etc.)
•	Evaluation of "thematic" sales campaigns success and failures (for example Back To School)
•	Creation, analysis and improvement of win-win deal structures
•	Sales forecast and analysis

City Planner in Shopping Department

PlayWay

Summary:
=================================================================
PlayWay is an innovative and open company which gave me opportunity to write my thesis about analysing consumer preferences using Choice Based Conjoin Analysis on real business problem. Beside doing my research my main responsibility was to promote PlayWay games, establish contacts with most influential game portal and take care of public relations. I guess I was quite good at doing that because even now after 2 years time my email address is still kept in gaming opinion leaders' email databases and I receive emails with co-operation offers. 
__________________________________________________________________________

Duties:
•	Preparation of casual games portals database
•	Analysis of casual games market - consumer approach
•	Development of report about casual games consumer preferences - conjoint analysis
•	PR & Networking - establishing cooperation with game portals
•	PlayWay games advertising - contact with game portals, new games announcements and recommendations for reviewers

Intern in Marketing and Licensing Department

A generalist, who thrives the most at the intersection between technology and business. Since 2019 in managerial positions has empowered his teams and acted as a multiplier in Data Science projects. Passionate about changing business with AI and growing individual team members to create a well-balanced and complementary team.

I provide advisory and consultation in the below areas. My contact email address: wojdanrafal@gmail.com

Leadership & Management:
   - Loves to win but finds helping the team to win even more enjoyable
   - Speaking both tech and exec comes naturally to him
   - Focused on the constant growth of his team, not forgetting about self-development 
   - Does not shy away from taking responsibility and making a difficult decision
   - If necessary goes beyond his role to find solutions but generally is a fan of delegating to the most suitable 
     person

Machine learning/AI
   - Experienced in designing and building AI solutions for drug discovery and development, social media, digital marketing and e-commerce
   - Both hands-on and managerial experience in conducting R&D projects in areas NLP, Computer Vision, 
     predictive modelling
   - A-Z Polish National Center for Research & Development (NCBiR) projects experience: from writing to executing and reporting every phase of the project
   - Always looking for the sweet spot between AI value and research by focusing on building AI products 
     without losing sight of the latest and state-of-the-art ideas

AI Advisory & Education (references in recommendations section)
   - Advises in ML-based NCBiR projects
   - R&D and ML projects due diligence
   - Consults setting up AI projects and building in-house AI teams
   - Shares his AI knowledge as lecturer on postgraduate studies and speaker at conferences
 
Mentorship
   - Mentors future and first-time managers in tech companies
   - Mentors future and first-time Data Science managers in tech companies

taplio

The Battle

Ella Copeland

Rafal Wojdan

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?