Editorial Board
Raja Ranganathan
Principal, Wells Fargo
20+ years of experience as analytics professional with experience consulting with collaborative cross-functional engagement to deliver analytical results and recommendations to support strategic business decisions across industries like transportation, retail, and banking.
At Wells Fargo, he has played a pivotal role in operationalizing Safety Net models to identify escalated complaints to meet regulatory commitments across various lines of business while fostering alignment with model governance requirements. In addition, his experience expands to delivering augmented Market Insight’s Test and Learn strategy for customer surveys to model post-shopping behavior, build enterprise level Unstructured Data Platform to host all customer feedback data at the right level of analytical artifacts to leverage insights, implement clustering solutions as part of efforts around store clustering enhancements, championing analytical methods to understand customer choice preferences around Apparel and Accessories.
Sameer Ranjan
Chief Technology Officer and Director (Data Science) at Catenate
Sameer is a product innovator, thought leader, advisor, speaker, and entrepreneur. He has created several data and AI-led products for various industries. He serves as Chief Technology Officer and Director (Data Science) at Catenate Corp (Creator of MayaMaya and MiraMira). He holds a master's degree in Data Science from UT Dallas. He founded NPO BhartiyAI (a subsidiary of CognitiveSprints in India), a firm aiming to educate and empower people by making them aware of AI and Data science. He has patents on AI algorithms, is an avid speaker on multiple platforms, and has been featured as a guest technical expert writer in many technical and business magazines. He is also associated with many tech startups and product firms as their technical advisor. He has written a book titled "Resume and ATS" serving over 250K students worldwide by helping them write resumes to fit in technical specifications of ATS systems.
Annie Wang
Director of Pricing and Analytics at PPG Architectural Coatings
Annie Wang is a dynamic business and technology visionary leader with an unwavering passion using technology such as AI and analytics to solve business problems. Currently serving as the Director of Pricing and Analytics at PPG Architectural Coatings, Annie leads high-performing teams that navigate the intricacies of sales analytics, price strategy, pricing execution, and data governance. Her strategic collaborations with senior leadership culminate in holistic solutions that transcend traditional boundaries, tackling persistent challenges across multifaceted business domains.
With over two decades of experience in specialty chemical industry, she has developed the business acumen and knowhow to drive synergy between process, people, and technology to propel businesses towards growth and profitability. Armed with an MBA from Widener University and a BA from Central University Finance and Economics in Beijing, China, started her career in sales and quickly progressed through the ranks. Annie Wang quickly developed passion for using data and analytics to drive sales and marketing effectiveness and enable technology-driven business strategy for profitable growth.