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    Igor Elbert

    Igor Elbert

    Worked at multiple startups, ran my own self-funded company, was an interim CEO. Led data science teams at CB Insights, Finery, Gilt.com, BN.com.

    Chief Data Scientist New York City Ukraine National Univ...
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    Experience
    CB Insights
    CB Insights
    SVP, Data Science 2019 - 2023 (over 3 years)
    FINERY
    FINERY
    Chief Data Scientist 2018 - 2019 (about 1 year)
    Finery was acquired by Stitchfix.

    Applied data science to build ground-breaking 'Wardrobe Operating Systemâ„¢".

    Lead a team of talented data scientists to develop... more AI styling expert system, NLP classifier, chatbot, customer behavior models and much more.
    Tapad
    Tapad
    Head of Data Science 2016 - 2018 (almost 2 years)
    Led a team of 12 data scientists to enhance Tapad's device graph.

    Proposed and spearheaded an innovative application of NLP techniques to Tapad core business.

    Championed... more adoption of AutoML tools to increase data scientist productivity and to serve as a foundation for data-science-in-a-box offering to company's clients.
    Gilt Groupe
    Exit
    Gilt Groupe
    Principal Data Scientist 2013 - 2016 (over 3 years)
    "Preemptive Shipping: How Gilt Predicts Which Customers Will Buy Products It Has Never Sold Before" - Strata, New York http://strataconf.com/stratany2014/public/schedule/detail/36225

    "Gilt's... more pre-emptive shipping is an experiment in data science" - SearchCIO,
    http://searchcio.techtarget.com/feature/Gilts-pre-emptive-shipping-is-an-experiment-in-data-science

    "Bellwethers" - Data Gotham, New York - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k4WiNXqAgc

    "Igor Elbert on Data Science and Analytics at Gilt.com" - https://medium.com/the-data-janitors/igor-elbert-on-data-science-and-analytics-at-gilt-com-f7a825e65872

    "Quantifying Loyalty and Anti-Loyalty" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjfITIXhHLc

    "Heel Size By State" - Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/11/highest-heels-by-state_n_6141306.html

    "Guess where people wear the highest heels' - AOL http://www.aol.com/article/2014/11/05/you-won-t-guess-which-state-wears-the-highest-heels/20988964/

    Interview with KDnuggets - http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/12/interview-igor-elbert-gilt-analytics-curated-shopping.html

    "Can You Use Data In Fashion? According To Gilt, You Can" - interview with InnovationEnterprise http://channels.theinnovationenterprise.com/articles/215-interview-with-principal-data-scientist-gilt-groupe-igor-elbert

    "Quantifying International Impact of e-Commerce Offerings" - Customer Analytics Innovation Summit https://ieondemand.com/divisions/analytics/events/232/presentations/quantifying-international-impact-of-e-commerce-offerings#sthash.ijZcS43C.dpuf

    "Meta-SQL" - short intro into Meta-SQL for Uncubed.com - http://edge.uncubed.com/courses/gilt-metasql

    Delivered two presentations at Advancing Analytics International conference in Sydney, Australia

    "Visualizing Wisdom of the Crowd" - Big Data Conference, Boston, MA https://ieondemand.com/divisions/big-data/events/139/presentations/visualizing-wisdom-of-the-crowd
    Barnes & Noble
    Barnes & Noble
    VP, Quantitative Analytics 2011 - 2013 (over 1 year)
    Aster Data Systems
    Exit
    Aster Data Systems
    Senior Consultant 2010 - 2011 (almost 2 years)
    Led deployment of Aster MPP database for a variety of high-profile customers. Was responsible for the turn-key delivery of the functioning data warehouse and establishing... more a foundation for analytics and data science for my clients.

    Largest clients: Barnes and Noble and Gilt.com.
    Selected interesting projects:
    - Electronic Arts (Battlefield 3 beta telemetry analysis)
    - Full Tilt Poker (bot detection and money transfer analysis)
    Operative
    Operative
    Director, Software Engineering 2008 - 2009 (over 1 year)
    Common Sensor
    Common Sensor
    Founding Partner 2006 - 2008 (about 2 years)
    Business Management Systems
    Business Management Systems
    CEO 2007 - 2008 (11 months)
    Business Management Systems
    Business Management Systems
    Advisor 2007 - 2008 (about 1 year)
    Genuone/Sensitech
    Genuone/Sensitech
    Director, Software Engineering 2002 - 2006 (about 4 years)
    https://www.internetretailer.com/mobile/2003/09/12/genuone-delivers-industry-s-first-unit-level-product-tracking-so
    Citi
    Citi
    Project Leader, AVP 1994 - 2002 (almost 8 years)
    Systems Automation
    Systems Automation
    Software Engineer 1992 - 1994 (over 1 year)
    Founder
     
    Employee
    Aster Data Systems, Gilt Groupe, Systems Automation, Citi, Genuone/Sensitech, Business Management Systems, Common Sensor, Operative, Barnes & Noble, Tapad, FINERY, CB Insights
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    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Business Management Systems
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
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    Acquired
     
     
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    About
    Achievements

    Led software development team to create a product that allowed very first RFID-enabled shipment in Walmart supply chain. Run a small fashion software company.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Data Mining Data Analysis Big Data Databases Software Engineering
    Locations
    Europe Singapore United States New York City
     
    Q&A
    What's your favorite non-business book?

    Catch-22

    If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

    Same thing - data mining and travel

    What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

    LinkedIn

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