Mars

Director of Analytic & AI Capabilities

Head of Data Science - North America

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Select highlights include: 
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: Amplified customer spending 3-5x via hyper-personalized digital experiences and an 80M-record consumer data platform.
EMBEDDED CUSTOMER CENTRICITY: Devised KPI dashboard for 30+ brands, aligning consumer experience metrics with strategic growth goals.
BUILDING A DATA-DRIVEN MARKETING CULTURE: Conducted data analytics and marketing strategy training for 2,000 marketing leaders.

Executive Director, Global CRM Engagement, Activation & Analytics

The Vitamin Shoppe

Select highlights include:
DATA-DRIVEN INNOVATION: Launched a $100M annual subscription business using customer data analysis and segmentation.
STRATEGIC NEGOTIATION: Fostered strategic partnerships, securing $30M in bottom-line improvements through data-driven negotiations.
DRIVING CUSTOMER RETENTION: Revamped loyalty program, enhancing customer retention and boosting top-line growth.

Senior Director Analytics & Insights

Director, Business Analytics & Insight

The Children's Place

Select highlights include:
CHANGE AGENT: Generated $25M net profit by innovating store fleet optimization tool.
CUSTOMER CENTRIC PERSONALIZATION: Increased sales by $4M and saved $1M through personalized email communication strategies.
LEVERAGING CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Utilized branded research panel to leverage customer engagement, increasing top-selling product turnover by 23%.

Director - Omni Channel Analytics & Insights

Party City

Manager - Marketing Analytics & Consumer Insight

Marketing Analyst

Montclair State University, School of Business, Dean's Office

School of Business Administrative Affairs/Programs Coordinator & Dean's Office Graduate  Assistant

At Mars Petcare, I lead Analytics & AI Capabilities and serve as interim head of our Global Analytics Services team, guiding a global team to deliver scalable solutions that simplify complexity, accelerate decisions, and drive measurable business impact.

Over the past five years, we’ve evolved from a specialized function into a trusted cross-divisional partner — building reusable frameworks, strengthening core analytics capabilities, and enabling faster, more consistent decision-making across our business.

I’m especially proud of our team: value-focused, pragmatic, curious, and deeply committed to our shared purpose: A better world for pets. We stay close to key business challenges and own the outcomes we deliver.

Before Mars, I led analytics transformations at Estée Lauder and The Vitamin Shoppe. Early in my career, I learned that great analytics isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about asking the right questions and knowing when to challenge them. That principle continues to guide how I show up: with clarity, integrity, and purpose.

Always happy to connect — whether about analytics, leadership, or exchanging ideas.

Martin Leitner

Paul Morgan

Wisdom Analytics Inc.

Delivering strategic consulting, GTM and Customer development/success for a next-gen AI SaaS RGM platform.

With a track record spanning multiple industries, I bring a unique blend of corporate, strategy consulting, and revenue generation strategies using advanced analytics. This diverse background has cultivated a strong commercial mindset with distinguishing capabilities in the following areas:
- Corporate growth strategy including GTM, Commercial
- Commercial development (Sales Enablement, Sales Management)
- Strategic consulting, thought leadership- collaborate with clients to develop growth strategies using advanced analytics including AI/ML
- Customer Success - provide strategic support to ensure that Wisdom customer success is paramount through Wisdom's delivery framework
- Product Development - collaborate with the product team to deliver advanced Insights and analytics
- Multi-function team leadership (Commercial team, Customer Success, Product Management)
- Operations Guidance- collaborate with the CTO to develop SOC2 compliance through the full stack (Azure, Databricks, ReactJS, DS)
- Clients include multiple F100 companies deployed across 18 countries

Go to Market Analytics Executive

Champion Petfoods

Highlights include:
- Pragmatic Revenue Management practices in price, promotion and assortment 
- Sales enablement and incremental growth through sales playbooks, frictionless data visualization and story-telling platform with +$1.2MM incremental in first year of launch
- Product vision and collaborator of first-to-market ML + Regression Assortment (store-level) model with $MM growth path
- Collaborate with Marketing and Consumer Insights to build cohesive Quant/Qual stories that connect the shopper need states with moments of interaction to enhance our HH penetration and grow long-term sales
- Vendor management for data and analytics such as price and promotion, point-of-sale, omnichannel insights, marketing insights, forecasting, and innovation
- Advisor to C-Suite with regular business reviews and market insights
- Core analytical insights and activities including Joint business planning with key customers, MAP price compliance, competitive analysis, market predictions
- Managing a high-performing team of 4 experienced analytics professionals across multiple countries and time zones, as well as managing third-party vendor contracted resources

North American lead of Analytics

The Mission UK

Non-commercial collaboration with the band "The Mission UK"​, associated artists, record labels and marketing agencies.

- Grew web presence using SEO on a Wordpress platform
- enabled social media strategy, growing Twitter audience by 20X and Facebook by 15X
- Photography and Videography for the YouTube channel and press releases
- Credited on albums "AurA" (also recorded appearance)​, "Aural Delight", "God is a Bullet", "The Brightest Light" and "Another Fall From Grace"
- Artwork for tours and promo CDs, Apparel
- worked with associated artists on various projects (Mark Gemini Thwaite, Ben Christo, David M Allen)

Social Media management & Artistic Consultant

Bungee Tech

Leading the future of e-Commerce and Omnichannel with advanced AI / ML analytics at a scale, speed, and cost through business intelligence, analytics, and data solutions with the world's leading SaaS product matching, pricing and assortment platform.

Driving product enhancements through rapid ideation with data scientists and clients alike while collaboratively enhancing marketing programs and initiatives to create additional more (x)QLs to support greater LTV and ACV.

Providing industry knowledge and product expertise to drive context-aware SaaS solutions on AWS (Lamda, Neptune, S3) in the digital commerce world that connect product matching, price, promotion, assortment, and more - powering many well-known logos to optimize their online strategies in price, promotion and assortment.

Working with leading retail and manufacturer brands in the high street and e-street across grocery, apparel, automotive, health & beauty to help improve their digital strategies and tactics; competitive intelligence including white and grey space, assortment, out of stock, price, promotion, MAP monitoring and compliance, advanced image recognition.

Working with the CEO and other leaders in the organization, I am an integral part of the GTM strategy, including sales, marketing, product marketing and product development, resulting in an accelerated sales pipeline process, persona targeted content marketing and agile product development increasing SQLs by 10X, improving CTRs by 25% and raising brand awareness.

Commercial Lead and Industry Expert

Nielsen

Promoted as the Vice President of Thought Leadership and Product Strategy within the Advanced Analytics Practice (RGM, TPO, Marketing Mix, Assortment). Developed a commercial roadmap and sales playbook with Product, Marketing and Sales that empowered commercial excellence. Built a closed-loop commercial machine that efficiently aligned people, processes, and priorities with relevant learnings, communication, and coaching in order to drive an evolutionary analytical suite of products. Delivered the right message at the right time, personalizing and customizing the experience to help Nielsen achieve its aggressive growth and revenue targets.

Highlights:

- Cloud-based Analytical SaaS solutions carrying $60M+ revenue
- Contributed ~$5M of revenue annually; supported a further $25M as a strategic executive
- Strategic solutions executive (Revenue Management, Category Management, Shopper Segmentation analytics) consulting with both the world's best-known through to emerging brands
- Product Management consultant, contributing towards advanced Omnichannel AI / ML solutions that will incrementally grow revenue by est $10M 2021 - 2022
- Product Marketing activator, delivering impactful messages across multiple channels using pragmatic marketing and challenger sales
- Architect of a Sales Enablement framework that has been adopted as Global standard
- Customer success champion - collaborate across the sales to delivery lifecycle, championing improving customer results and driving better outcomes resulting in increased adoption rates and reduced churn

Vice President Strategic & Sales Enablement

Enabling value-driven strategies & analytical solutions around Shelf Science for CPG clients, positioned for growth and optimization. With a portfolio of clients that including global & national consumer brands (Kraft, Heinz, MillerCoors, Kelloggs, PepsiCo and more) intent on driving maximum value from their investments, I collaborated across their organizations, including C-suite, addressing the dynamic challenges across Category, Brand & Revenue Management, Finance, Marketing, and Sales:
★Leader of teams: Direct report of 5 people, each with a mutually created personalized career roadmap; indirect reports of ~25 across 3 continents. Additionally informally coached 2 mentees.
★ Dedicated client portfolio with in excess of $23bn revenue / $5M revenue
★ Architect of both strategic and tactical analytical solutions through a proven roadmap framework developed using my Product Management, Analytics and FMCG knowledge; accelerator of Trade and Shelf Optimization by ~10-15% in first year of engagements
★ By specializing in TPO/TPM, Shelf Management (Assortment, Planograms), Test/control analysis and Store Execution, I drove trade improvement by 3-5% annually and assortment optimization by 2-5% total business. Incorporated marketing mix, innovation (BASES), consumer segmentation overlays to create more complete solutions
★ Utilization of CRM (Salesforce) to manage my portfolio, look for opportunities and dynamics that will either change or support current or future strategies, create and manage client opportunities and forecasts
★ Conference Speaker / Thought leader on the future state of the CPG industry and Product Leadership at the Promotional Optimization Institute
★ Champion of simplification (drive quicker to action) through data visualization and story-telling; collaborated with leaders in the consulting practice to develop a consulting framework that reduced operational time by 15% and increased the impact of presentations (call to action)

Vice President of Sales Effectiveness (How & Where to Win Strategies)

Create outcome driven strategic & tactical Trade, Assortment and Marketing mix solutions for FMCG Manufacturers with a portfolio of clients from medium to global national in a variety of categories & segments including Malt-O-Meal / Post, Land O Frost, PepsiCo, Mission Foods, Barilla

★ Dedicated client portfolio with $3M book and ~$20B in business)
★ Consultant, delivering solutions in multiple CPG categories at both Manufacturer Strategic and Retailer tactical levels, typically Trade Optimization driven – to help them realize the value of their trade investments and actions. Typical engagements created annual HQ strategies for Grocery, Mass, Drug, Dollar channels and key account plans (involving end-to end-planning) 
★ Collaborate with marketing and analytics teams at a high-profile global-national carbonated beverage brand unified marketing/trade optimization, reducing their trade overhead by 8% ($MM)
★ Architect of the “Pasta Aisle Reinvention” solution for a global-national brand, touted as the “best use of analytics ever deployed” by their leadership; Total opportunity: $88M incremental sales.
★ Engaged a collaborative platform to create an extensible solution BI/Data Visualization framework using a combination MicroStrategy and proprietary internal data visualization tools using D3.js
★ Mentor for continued associate growth and development (4 direct reports, 20 indirect reports)

Director of Trade Analytics Consulting & Sales Effectiveness

Experian

Senior Product Manager for Experian Automotive Group - Clients include Porsche, Chrysler/FIAT group, Hyundai, Kia, Volvo, Mazda

★ Re-envision and execution of $MM analytical Automotive solutions & strategic planning using the Tableau platform
★ Redefined the standards of delivering industry leading insights to Automotive OEMs, Dealers, After Market Manufacturers and Financial Service-related clients with >$30MM revenue attached
★ Created new go-to-market solutions for integrated Demographics, consumer & vehicle sales data
★ Created re-envisioned go-to-market solutions for OEM Loyalty & Recall with predictive intent
★ Engage with clients during the RFP and discovery to fully understand their needs and exploit potential ways to optimize understanding of their markets
★ Redefining the ways to consume and understand data through compelling visualizations
★ Business Process re-engineering, using best practices and experiences to create predictable results, reduce time to market and understanding of true business value.
★ Introduced a pragmatic marketing approach to bring quality products to market, faster (reduced time to market time by ~30%)
★ Part of the Salesforce early adoption project team, to ensure that the power of the platform was leveraged early and often

Senior Product Manager of Automotive Analytics (OEM, Aftermarket)

Working within the Consumer Package Goods (CPG) industry, I collaborated with trade, marketing, sales and analytical groups to create actionable trade strategies to grow volume and profit for both manufacturer and retailers. Clients included Nestle, Heinz, Church & Dwight, El Monterey, Safeway, Meijer, Kroger

Highlights include:
★ Product Strategy and Marketing Redirecting trade spending and growing volume / sales for Pittsburgh based CPG company across multiple product lines that net to $10MM in bottom line profit. Then executing retailer level plans with same retailer based off the above strategies
★ Collaboratively redefined product strategy, tactics for an east coast major Laundry detergent manufacturer to realign their trade plans, create more engaging strategies with their retailers and focus trade spending, resulting in $2MM additional projected profit
★ Product strategy, building a trade story for an east coast sparkling water division that not only created more volume (projected to over 7% across the total portfolio), but optimized how they directed their promotional activity to keep trade costs contained.
★ Product Strategy, tactics and marketing collaborating on trade strategy with a west coast frozen food manufacturer, followed by retailer execution workshops to exploit market potential, grow volume by up to 15% and deliver significantly more profit.

Senior Consultant, Custom Analytics and activation enablement

Service and goal orientated responsible for program management of the corporate portals (Nielsen Answers, Nielsen.com, Nielsen Intranet), social media and BI solutions providing industry class solutions to the CPG and Media Industries. Clients included P&G, Kraft Foods, Safeway, GSK

Highlights
★ Managed $6MM multi-site data center rollout, delivered to time and scale and without interruption to users or integrated applications using  Oracle Goldengate
★ Managed iterative software updates to the global corporate portal and Dotcom / Intranet solution  meeting 100% Say:Do ratio
★ Implemented common working framework for BI solutions to integrate into the corporate Portal
★ Collaboratively tasked with providing a flexible, adaptable CMS for Nielsen.com thus empowering business teams to deliver public content without the need for additional IT support
★ Re-architected the global Sharepoint solution in collaboration with Microsoft, providing a more scaleable solution with additional capacity and no additional expenditure
★ Part of working group defining how enterprise social media would be pervasive across the organisation and our clients.

Experience with transition management and co-ordinating outsourced resources, liaising between business and technical group in presenting client RFPs.

Provide consultancy within the organization to enable groups to maximize value of deliveries both internally and to clients using well-proven and recommended best practices, enterprise tools and methodologies, both from a technical and information architecture perspective.

Program Manager for Enterprise Online IT Initiatives

Defining and implementing software architectures for global solutions using enterprise class tools. Also provided consulting and solutions to other groups within the Nielsen group.

Worked with globally reaching teams to provide J2EE code based on the Vignette Portal Server platform (v3 through to v7). Part of the the migration and consolidation team to provide enterprise class managed services whilst maintaining cost containment. Our mantra was "write less software", which was a principle that helped drive our success

Experience in J2EE, CSS, XML/XSL, Javascript, SQL Server, Oracle, Vignette Application Portal, BEA Weblogic, Macromedia JRun, SAML authentication (PING), Autonomy and DielselPoint Search engines, IIS and Apache Web Servers.

Previously worked in the European Software Group as Senior Developer using VB6 / SQL Server and Oracle as well as leading the initiative to make available standard components for re-use across the business. Additionally provided cross business consultant for web based applications in the EU region.

Global Software Architect (J2EE)

Countrywide Independent Advisers Ltd

Developed Point of Sale software for financial advisors, giving best advice recommendations based on client profiles against recommended insurance providers. Provided business analysis against competitors and new market opportunities collaborating with groups within the business. 

Worked with Sales team to pitch to major UK national clients and gave presentations to the London Stock Exchange and other externally interested parties, demonstrating value proposition and use cases.

Lead Business Analyst for the Business Process Re-engineering project using the Workflow project.

Senior Developer & Pre-Sales enablement

Lloyds Bank Plc

Team lead of 10 to the Oxford telephone banking services group after serving through many aspects of the business. Team member in the leading Sales and Marketing group of the region, actively contributing towards growing the Bank's insurance and financial advice business.

Customer Services Executive

Transformational leader and seasoned professional known for developing innovative solutions to complex business problems. With a track record spanning multiple industries, I bring a unique blend of corporate, strategy consulting, and revenue generation strategies to the table. This diverse background has cultivated a strong commercial mindset with distinguishing capabilities in corporate strategy, performance and portfolio optimization, corporate development, insights and analytics, merger integration, multi-function team leadership, and change management.

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