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    Will Cheung

    Will Cheung

    Head of Product & Data Platform @prudential, founder @contextsmith, analytics leader @netflix

    Entrepreneur Palo Alto Carnegie Mellon Unive...
    contextsmith.com
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    Experience
    ContextSmith
    ContextSmith
    Founder, CEO, Product 2016 - 2018 (over 2 years)
    ContextSmith is an Account Based Intelligence platform for enterprises to manage and upsell key accounts. We use data from emails, meetings, CRM, and support to find signals... more of risk and new opportunities.
    Comprehend
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    Comprehend
    Director of Product, Data, Customer Success 2012 - 2016 (over 3 years)
    I was Comprehend's first executive and 5th employee, and helped closed first couple pivotal customers and grew the company to 60+ people, from seed to Series B.
    Netflix
    Netflix
    Manager, Experimentation Platform 2011 - 2012 (about 1 year)
    I led and built the first version of Experimentation reporting platform that enables product managers & analytics team to self-serve and visualize experiment results.
    Blackhawk Network
    Blackhawk Network
    The Head of Enterprise BI 2009 - 2011 (about 2 years)
    Founding member of the BI team and built the team to 12 people. Developed enterprise reporting infrastructure that successfully deployed to executives, finance, sales, marketing,... more and operations teams.
    Duffel
    Exit
    Duffel
    Founder, Chief Everything Officer 2009 - 2011 (about 2 years)
    Microstrategy
    Microstrategy
    Sr BI Consultant / Software Engineer 2004 - 2007 (about 3 years)
    Prudential Financial
    Prudential Financial
    Director of Product - Data Platform 2018 - Present (about 8 years)
    Sitting in Prudential's new tech office, my team leads the enterprise data platform that powers all Prudential's customer experience, digital products, and analytics. We're... more leading the digital transformation and building scalable, world-class platform.

    My team owns:
    * Data Platform & Pipelines
    * Customer Data
    * Data Lake
    * Pub/Sub Platform
    * Marketing Datamart
    Founder
    ContextSmith, Duffel
    Employee
    Comprehend, Netflix, Microstrategy, Blackhawk Network, Prudential Financial
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    About
    Achievements

    * Grew Comprehend Systems, a startup revolutionizing clinical trial analytics, from 5 employees to 70+ employees and $30M+ backed by Sequoia and Lightspeed. Built an experienced data-driven Product, Customer Success team to 8 people; grew a team of data solutions architects to 4 people.

    * Graduated from Stanford Business School Executive Program for Growing Companies in 2015.

    * Built enterprise BI team and grew it to 12 ETL / BI engineers at Blackhawk Network, a prepaid payment company with $1+B in revenue. Supported executives, marketing, finance, and operations.

    * Founded, developed, launched and sold a web consumer product, DuffelUp.com, for travelers that had 50k active users and attracts hundreds of daily users, without any marketing spending.

    More here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willcheung

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Customer Success Professional Services Business Intelligence Enterprise Software SaaS Hacker Product Management Analytics & Reporting
    Locations
    Silicon Valley
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