Emad H.

Experience

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  Independent Consultant

  Chief Executive Officer

  Jul 2023 - Present

  Provide bespoke strategic consulting services in data and AI strategy by leveraging strong technical, operation management, and leadership experiences. Bridge divide between technology and business, providing actionable insights that harmonize with corporate objectives. Advise multi-billion-dollar payments startup, focusing on using data to drive new product offerings and increase enterprise values. • Conducted AI training sessions for a diverse audience, including over 75 CEOs and a U.S. Congresswoman, demystifying the technology and its strategic implications. • Engaged as strategic advisor for neobank, assisted in refining Software as Service (SaaS) strategy, and developed AI-driven products, including both innovative and compliant with corporate governance standards. • Served as vice-chair of YPO AI/ML network empowering a network of 30K+ CEOs around world to adopt AI within organizations.

  • Rapid Prototype Generative AI solution in less than 30 days (learn more at Novex.ai)
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  RETINA

  CEO & Co-Founder

  Apr 2020 - Present

  We are your CLV experts. Retina is the customer intelligence partner that empowers businesses to maximize customer-level profitability. Boost revenue with the earliest and most accurate customer lifetime value metrics. Optimize your business and increase your valuation with action plans from our strategy consultants. Retina is a venture-backed startup located near the beach and third street promenade in beautiful Santa Monica. We have led data science teams at Facebook and Paypal, built and sold companies, and built the core tech behind several startups.

  • Retina provides solutions with specific focus on generating business value using Data and AI. Retina's customers include Nestle, Capital One, Madison Reed, Backcountry.com, Brickell, and many others.
  • Raised $13M in total funding (Seed, Seed 2 and Series A), led by Comcast Ventures and other top VCs
  • Grew recurring revenue by at least 3X annually, with $50M+ in qualified sales pipeline
  • Shipped 40+ major product launches and built customer success program with ~90% logo retention
  • Hired and managed a team of high caliber engineering, product and data science employees
  • Presented insights and trends around eCommerce at 4-6 industry events a year and provided insights to major outlets (e.g. Wall Street Journal)
  • Managed the company's finances, including budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management
  • Wrote the original code for the company in R and Python
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  RETINA

  COO & Co-Founder

  Feb 2017 - Mar 2020

  We are your CLV experts. Retina is the customer intelligence partner that empowers businesses to maximize customer-level profitability. Boost revenue with the earliest and most accurate customer lifetime value metrics. Optimize your business and increase your valuation with action plans from our strategy consultants. Retina is a venture-backed startup located near the beach and third street promenade in beautiful Santa Monica. We have led data science teams at Facebook and Paypal, built and sold companies, and built the core tech behind several startups.

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  Xpertly

  Founder & CEO

  May 2016 - Feb 2017

  • Xpertly used big data analytics to automate introductions between team members of large organizations. This directly enabled increased employee satisfaction and also fostered innovation by breaking down departmental silos
  • Founded early stage tech startup and on-boarded four initial clients with more than 750 executives and managers
  • Facilitated more than 3,000 introductions resulting in new careers, mentorships and career advice for members
  • Developed prototype software using state-of-art data science technologies (e.g. AWS, R-Shiny, Structured Machine Learning Boosted regression trees)
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  Facebook

  Head of Business Marketing Operations & Analytics

  Dec 2014 - May 2016

  Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

  • Led all analytics and marketing measurement activities for Facebook's business marketing team using data science and machine learning approaches
  • Leveraged data science tools such as R, R-Shiny, Matlab and Tableau to enable data transparency, experimentation, and automation of marketing operations
  • Started and led the marketing operations team which is responsible for setting Global Marketing team's (250+ people) goals, budgets, reporting, analytics and investment cases. The mission of this team was to enable efficiency for Global Business Marketing via tools, analytics and optimization.
  • Partnered closely with the VP of Global Business Marketing to manage operations and strategy resulting in 90% growth of the team.
  • Designed and deployed a resource management tool which enabled transparent budget management for the global team saving an estimated $XM of team's operation cost.
  • Developed a marketing event revenue impact measurement tool that reliably estimates impact on revenue for each marketing event. This tool is now used by all business marketing teams at FB.
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  Facebook

  Marketing Analytics Lead

  Sep 2014 - Dec 2014

  Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

  • Devised measurement and analytics strategy for Facebook's Global Business Marketing team resulting in reporting and analytics on digital marketing channels
  • Worked closely with Head of Operations on establishing baseline metrics on daily operations
  • Provided analysis to measure impact of Executive Briefing Center on revenue and product adoption using new concept of relative spend
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  PayPal

  Analytics Product Manager

  Jun 2013 - Aug 2014

  We're championing possibilities for all by making money fast, easy, and more enjoyable. Our hope is unlock opportunities for people in their everyday lives and empower the millions of people and businesses around the world who trust, rely, and use PayPal every day. For customer service, find us on Twitter at AskPayPal. https://twitter.com/AskPayPal For employment opportunities, check out our job openings in the 'Jobs' tab. We're an equal opportunity employer that welcomes diversity, and offer generous benefits to help you thrive at work and in your free time.

  • Led development of ‘Financial Instruments & Institutions’ dashboard/database and identified opportunities, resulting in partnership agreements with Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase
  • Designed and deployed automated business health monitoring system for three PayPal portfolios, minimizing the need for daily dashboards. This product autonomously analyzes dashboards, generates reports and notifies managers
  • Prototyped machine learning (classification and clustering algorithm) to train and predict consumer activity segments for more than 53M active PayPal members
  • Conceptualized ‘Unstructured Machine Learning’ (Clustering) as a means of segmentation of PayPal’s consumer accounts, resulting in targeted marketing and better propensity scoring
  • Automated time series forecasting of BillMeLater reporting by developing customized analytics application for the Decision Science forecasting team, enabling error free forecasting at all levels of KPI
  • Worked closely with PayPal Large Enterprise team to combine PayPal's Salesforce.com data with transactional data, resulting in actionable insights for relationship managers
  • Prototyped classification algorithm to predict and prevent consumer churn based on Bagged Decision Trees algorithm
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  Booz Allen Hamilton

  Sr. Consultant

  Jul 2011 - Jun 2013

  Trusted to transform missions with the power of tomorrow’s technologies, Booz Allen Hamilton advances the nation’s most critical civil, defense, and national security priorities. We lead, invest, and invent where it’s needed most—at the forefront of complex missions, using innovation to define the future. We combine our in-depth expertise in AI and cybersecurity with leading-edge technology and engineering practices to deliver impactful solutions. Combining more than 100 years of strategic consulting expertise with the perspectives of diverse talent, we ensure results by integrating technology with an enduring focus on our clients. We’re first to the future—moving missions forward to realize our purpose: Empower People to Change the World.

  • Developed historical and predictive metrics that provide clients with insight into program performance, risks and schedule
  • Significant deliverables include : (1) Determining key performance indicators (2) Data mining for business intelligence (3) Building regression models (3) Automated report generations (4) Designing dashboards
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  Boeing

  Guidance Navigation & Controls Engineer

  May 2008 - Jul 2011

  We are the world’s largest aerospace company and leading provider of commercial airplanes, defense, space and security systems, and global services. Building on a legacy of aerospace leadership, Boeing continues to lead in technology and innovation, deliver for its customers, and invest in its people and future growth. With us you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career, in your community and around the world. Our team members are supported to explore their professional interests and pursue new opportunities that will deepen their knowledge of our business. Join us in building the future of aerospace: boeing.com/careers Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

  • Developed analytics tool to help department managers forecast staffing supply and demand
  • Coded simulations for satellite control system algorithms
  • Led a team of engineers on a test floor to build a $300M satellite
  • Scripted rapid data processing and visualizing tools used to reduce issue resolution time
  • Led investigations into issues reported on satellites in orbit by Boeing's customer
  • Analyzed telemetry data, developed root cause analysis and proposed recommendations to the customers
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  Sikorsky Aircraft

  Flight Controls Engineer

  May 2005 - Apr 2008

  Since the flight of the world’s first practical helicopter in 1939, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, has remained the industry leader through its commitment to innovation, excellence and safety. Pioneers in flight solutions that bring people home everywhere, every time, we serve commercial and military markets around the world.

  • Devised the architecture for autopilot algorithms and led a team of engineers to develop the $600K product from requirements to test
  • Invented a lighter weight control system that replaces the conventional control rods with electronic motor driven systems *See patents section below*
  • Designed optimized hydraulic fault protection system for S-92 Fly By Wire helicopter program