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    Ben Biddle

    Ben Biddle (He/Him)

    Product, Strategy and Analytics leader, particularly adept at combining creative problem solving with data-driven insights to realize outsized business value

    COO Brooklyn University Of Califor...
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    Experience
    Handy HQ
    Handy HQ
    Head of Analytics & Business Insights 2019 - Present (about 7 years)
    Leading an 8-person, full stack Analytics team consisting of business and data analysts and analytics engineers
    BWBVentures
    BWBVentures
    Founder, Founder 2012 - Present (almost 14 years)
    Independent consultant offering advisory services to entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses
    • Achieved a greater than 3x return on marketing spending for a fast... more growing luxury lifestyle brand with simple, actionable refinements to its digital marketing and social media strategies
    • Increased new account registrations for a cloud-based platform that consumers use to manage home improvement projects, streamlining the user journey and using gaming elements to hack customer acquisition
    Roku
    Roku
    Performance & Optimization Product Development 2017 - 2019 (over 2 years)
    Edmunds.com
    Edmunds.com
    Senior Director, Unpublished Data (Product Management) 2016 - 2017 (about 1 year)
    Change agent brought into a newly created role, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer and charged with turning the company’s data assets into transformative new... more web services
    • Improved the vehicle discovery experience on Edmunds.com with a collaborative filtering recommendation service
    • Laid the foundation for an automotive knowledge graph using natural language processing to extract structured data from
    consumer reviews and other text sources
    Marketshare
    Exit
    Marketshare
    Strategy Director 2014 - 2016 (about 2 years)
    Business lead on a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers and business analysts using big data and predictive analytics to improve the marketing effectiveness... more of the world’s most esteemed brands
    • Maximized the return on close to $1 billion in annual paid media for a major mobile network operator with computer model simulations of cross-channel ad spending
    • Reduced the time required to refresh data sets and update deployed models from over 9 weeks to just 10 business days
    Infosys Consulting
    Infosys Consulting
    Principal, Strategy Consulting 2011 - 2014 (almost 3 years)
    Joined an early growth management consulting firm that later became a global division of Infosys
    • Developed the firm's Business Model Innovation (BMI) offering to help... more large, established companies act more like start-ups when launching new ventures
    • Advised a highly regarded tech firm on a pivot with its consumer facing digital platform, articulating the value propositions and go-to-market strategies to pursue opportunities in enterprise software management and connected cars respectively
    Infosys
    Infosys
    Sr. Associate, Product Innovation 2009 - 2011 (almost 2 years)
    “Rockstar” Award recipient for outstanding performance before promotion to Principal
    • Scaled sales of a new data center product from zero to almost $200 million in just... more three years, advising a client on go-to-market strategy and establishing strategic distributor relationships
    • Led the strategy, planning and actual integration of distribution channels for a $3.4 billion acquisition in the collaboration architecture market, positioning the firm to “cross the chasm” with video technology
    Citi
    Citi
    Product Management Associate, Electronic Trading 2004 - 2007 (about 3 years)
    Top ranked analyst in a rotational program, working in Finance, Trading, Operations, Technology and Risk before being promoted to Associate in the Equities division
    • Enabled... more a radically new business model centered on high volume, high frequency algorithmic trading
    • Reduced the daily P&L process in Financial Control from 4-hours to as little as half an hour by writing automation scripts in VBA
    ACCION New York
    ACCION New York
    Operations Analyst/Americorps VISTA 2003 - 2004 (11 months)
    • Analyzed performance data on $8,000,000 microloan portfolio to report to the Board of Directors
    • Increased lending activity 65% by expediting throughput with process... more improvements
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    BWBVentures
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    Marketshare, Citi, Edmunds.com, Infosys, Infosys Consulting, ACCION New York, Roku, Handy HQ
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    Achievements

    IAB Digital Data Solutions Certification • Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Specialization (Coursera) • Google AdWords, Google Analytics and Google Mobile certificates

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    Business Strategy Business Model Innovation Business Model Development Product Management New Product Development Mergers & Acquisitions Open Innovation Go to Market Strategy Channel Development Corporate Development Product Development Data Analysis Predictive Analytics Big Data Marketing Analytics Data Science Python SQL Neo4J Tableau Design Thinking Lean Startups Consulting Entrepreneurship Management Tableau Software Data Build Tool (dbt) Snowflake Cryptocurrencies Blockchain Web Technologies Analytics
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    Chicago Santa Monica San Diego
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