Keith Werle

The Business Analytics Center, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Business Analytics Center was established to facilitate engagement with corporate partners, our top students, and the world-class research faculty at Georgia Tech. I was brought in by school leadership to turn-around this struggling center and experiential learning program. 
•	Turned-around the struggling center and have made it self-funding / self-sustaining by working with the team and external companies to define annual engagement program benefits and structure, while also reducing costs, eliminating waste and other losses, while also implementing new sources of revenue and cost-recovery for the center. 
•	Client companies and Executive Council Members / Sponsors include; The Home Depot, UPS, NCR, Coca-Cola, TK Elevator, PGA, NFL, and AT&T among others. 
•	Center achieved a renewal / reengagement rate with sponsors of >80%, with many sponsors remaining engaged for 3 to 5 years.  
•	Redeveloped and have run the class program successfully for six years delivering over 36 consulting engagements with top graduate, undergraduate and PhD 
•	Redesigned and continually improved the experiential learning program / project-based course at the heart of the centers program. Course became one of the most highly rated experiential / practicum courses by students – and often had a waitlist of a semester or two to get in. Center also frequently had a backlog of projects for top companies of a year or more. 

https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/centers-and-initiatives/business-analytics-center/index.html

Managing Director - The Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech

Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business

Professor of the Practice. - GT MBA & MSA Programs, BSBA, B-IsYE 
Professor & Instructor Business Analytics Practicum (MGT6214, MGT8803, MGT/ISYE 4803)

Redeveloped and have run the interdisciplinary business analytics consulting class program successfully for six years delivering over 36 consulting engagements with top graduate, undergraduate and PhD from disciplines across all of Georgia Tech 
• Redesigned and continually improved the experiential learning program / project-based course at the heart of the centers program. 
• Course became one of the most highly rated experiential / practicum courses by students – and often had a waitlist of a semester or two to get in. Center also frequently had a backlog of projects for top companies of a year or more. 

https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/centers-and-initiatives/business-analytics-center/index.html

Professor of Business Analytics

Consultant.

Finance, advanced analytics, strategy, performance improvement, turn-around and corporate development consulting for clients in the telecommunications, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, entertainment and marketing industries. Recent clients include: Microsoft, Caesars Entertainment, US Foods, Harland Clarke, Kimberly-Clark, FMC Technologies, Curtiss-Wright, The Home Depot, AT&T, Cingular Wireless, Nortel, MCI, Internap, Bielomatik, Fischbein, Ogin Energy and Flow Design.

Representative engagements Include:
•	THE HOME DEPOT, INC. - MERCHANT ANALYTICS & ASSORTMENT PLANNING				

•	THE HOME DEPOT, INC. - STRATEGIC BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT	

•	RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT MODELING – Green Energy Power Generation Project Financing and RE Investment Portfolio Strategy Development: 

•	Developed advanced prototype performance modeling and financial analysis for both wind and hydro energy production designs for two venture capital backed start-ups designing and developing next generation wind and water turbines. 

•	INTERNAP NETWORK SERVICES CORP. (NASDAQ: INAP) – INTERIM DIRECTOR, Sr VP, FINANCE, FP&A
reporting directly to the CFO for this $200M per year international provider of IP network services, technology, Content Delivery Services (CDN) and data center facilities. Provided key guidance in the completion of the turn-around of this ten year old company. 

•	CINGULAR WIRELESS, INC. - FINANCE & STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLANNING
Responsible for full range of company-wide strategy and FP&A activities for this $40B per year wireless provider. Responsible for long-term strategic plans including capex budgets ($5B - $7B per year).

Data Science, Decision Science, Decision Support, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Causal Inference, Correlation, Network Analytics, Clustering, K- Nearest Neighbor, K-Means, Linear Regression, Multivariate Regression, Machine Learning

Consultant / Interim Executive - Finance, FP&A, Business Analytics, Data Science

National COVID-19 Resiliency Network

NCRN is a national program funded by the National Science Foundation for the support and research study of the impacts of the pandemic on highly vulnerable populations and under-represented minorities across the US and it’s territories. The $40M multi-year program is run by the center at the Morehouse School of Medicine and the Satcher Institute for Health Equity.

National Advisory Board Member

MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta

Founding member of local chapter, Board Advisors and Operaring Committee Member, Co-Chief Marketing Office (2001 -2004)

Board Member, Founding Member,Operating Committee Member, CMO

bielomatik GmbH

Stabilized company during auto turnaround to save jobs, existing customer relationships with the big auto manufacturers, ensure delivery of existing contracts and backlog orders, and preserve cash-flow while also stabilizing cash position and restructuring debt to survive the long industry  turn-around.

Interim CFO / VP Finance

Internap Network Services, Inc.

Reporting directly to the CFO for this $200M per year provider of IP network services, technology, Content Delivery Services (CDN), and data center facilities to businesses in the US, Europe and Asia. 
Provided key guidance in the completion of the turn-around of this ten year old company. Helped Company achieve first year of profitability in its operating history. 
Developed and implemented new key analytics, metrics, forecasting techniques and internal management reports. New methodologies resulted in significant improvement in forecast accuracy and earlier identification of operational problems and markets trends impacting performance.

Interim Sr Director / VP - Financial Planning & Analysis

Cingular Wireless

Responsible for full range of company-wide strategy and FP&A activities for this $40B per year wireless provider. Responsible for long-term strategic plans including capex budgets ($5B - $7B per year).
Delivered monthly Senior Executive (CEO, CFO, COO) briefings as well as Board presentations.
Led a team of six senior analysts on all business cases, capital expenditures, vendor contracts or corporate development (M&A) activities requiring Senior Executive or Board approval ($10M - $2B). 
Responsible for business case development and modeling for company-wide or cross-division multi-year projects including investments, new technology, capital or cost savings initiatives, and acquisitions or divestitures ($50M – $1.5B).
Led cross-functional projects to improve company wide processes such as forecasting, reporting and decision support as well as developing and implementing new metrics to track performance.

Interim Director Finance and Strategic Planning

DC Venture Partners

Firm provided strategy consulting and corporate development services to start-up companies, spin-offs, global Fortune 500 clients and venture capital and private equity investors and their portfolio companies.     		      

Interim Director of Finance for $400M healthcare technology and service provider to physicians, hospitals and insurance companies. Also led multiple consulting engagements for company prior to interim role. 

Responsible for full range of FP&amp;A activities for $100M division including direct oversight of four business units ($30M+), as well as all corporate and company-wide strategic projects. Budgeting, forecasting, analysis and reporting for division as well as review and approval of all capital expenditures, expenses and new hires for division.

Successfully identified and led project using cost accounting, BPR and investment analysis to identifying over $5M per year in bottom line improvement in $30M per year business unit through operational savings, expense recovery and improved billing and collections.

Successfully led consulting engagements in financial planning and analysis, strategy, corporate development, business case development and business improvement for such clients as Internap, MCI, Worldcom, Bell Canada, Nortel, Bellsouth, SITA, Equant, Rapid Link Telecommunications, BellSouth Cellular, Ungerman-Bass, Renaissance Worldwide, Per-Se Technologies, and Coca-Cola.

Co-Founder, Managing Director

BT Group

Sr Manager - Network Design & Operations Planning

Managing Director - The Business Analytics Center, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. Consultant, Interim Executive, Investment Advisor & Board Member

Managing Director of the Business Analytics Center at Georgia Institute of Technology 
Active Consultant, Interim Executive, Investment Advisor & Board Member - Open to new opportunities to serve. 

With over thirty years experience in industry and consulting, my background spans a broad range of business disciplines including finance, analytics, data science, strategy, and corporate development. I have consulted in many industries and for a diverse range of clients, from venture capital backed technology start-ups, to PE backed turn-arounds and global Fortune 50 companies. 

Seasoned independent practitioner and consultant in Finance, FP&A, Business Analytics, Data Science,  Strategy & Performance Improvement 

MBA in Finance & Strategy (with Honors), BA in Economics & Math (Econometrics), Data Science / Business Analytics Certification (JHU)

Specialties: Specialties: Finance • Analytics • Accounting • Reporting • Budgeting • Planning • Forecasting • 
Complex Modeling & Quantitative Analysis • Management Reporting • Cost Accounting • Variance Analysis  •  Multi Product Line / Business Unit Profitability • Strategic Business Plan Development • Pricing • Valuation • Expense Planning & Control • Cost Reduction
Capital Planning & Allocation • Capital Expenditure & Investment Analysis & Improvement • Mergers & Acquisitions • Data Science • Big Data • R / SAS / OLAP • Tableau • Weka  • Statistics • Regression • Data Visualization • Data Mining • Deterministic / Predictive Modeling • Game Theory • Clustering • K-Means • Big Data • Predictix • Causal Inference • Correlation / Causation • Data Mining • M&A • Corporate Development • Tree Induction • SVM • GenAI

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