Dan Sarkar is a highly experienced industry leader with over 15 years of experience in strategic implementation, project management, and solutions development. Throughout his career, Dan has worked in various industry domains, including retail, e-commerce, marketing, finance, automotive, and energy, and has achieved expertise in championing data-driven strategies. With solid storytelling capabilities from data to inform strategy, Dan is skilled in developing marketing, analytics, and data science strategies, as well as data management, data architecture strategies, and AI ethics.

Dan is highly proficient in leading analytics teams and practices in both on-site and remote environments, with strong knowledge of digital and offline marketing and retail strategies, tactics, and measurement frameworks. He is also highly efficient in management skills and has strong experience leading data science, analytics, research, and strategy teams, and he has served various management positions, start-up advisory roles, and regularly speaks at technology conferences.

Some of his past positions include Sr. Manager of Data Science at National Credit Center, Director of Strategy, Analytics, and Data Science, and Project Management at Insight Que Solutions, Assistant Vice President at Credit One Bank, Group Director of Analytics And Optimization at Pace Communications, and Data Scientist at Zappos Family of Companies.

Dan brings a multi-disciplinary perspective of computer human behavior, marketing, media, and behavioral economics, statistics, social psychology, and computer science to develop products/solutions involving AI and other interdisciplinary approaches.

In education, Dan earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Media and Information Studies at Michigan State University and a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science and Computer Human Interaction at Oregon State University.