Gary Cao
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Hudson, Ohio, United States
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Gary Cao
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Roles available for:
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Fractional
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Consulting
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Contract
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Interim
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Hudson, Ohio, United States
Achievements

Experience
- Chief Data and Analytics Officer
- Chief Data and Analytics Officer
- Director, Data Science (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning)
- Corporate Vice President, Health Info Strategy & Analytics
- Senior VP & General Manager, Chief Analytics Officer
- Director, data and analytics, corporate direct marketing
- Chief Data and Analytics Officer
- Vice President, Data Science and Marketing Strategy
Strengths in this role: Practical visionary and action-oriented architect who gains the confidence of Boards and CEOs by delivering visible value, effectively solving complex problems, dealing effectively with ambiguity, and leveraging technologies in artificial intelligence and machine learning
Industry Group: Health
Industry: Hospital & Health Care
Years of experience: 8 years
Company name: Akron Children's Hospital
Company size: 7,000 employees
Role in this company: Led a team of 40 (including data engineers, analysts, data governance staff, solution architects). Influenced a matrixed function embedded in 30 departments (60+ data analytics professionals). Key Accomplishments: Led data engineering team to cut critical project requests wait list from 18 months to 2 months; Created Accountable Care Organization’s analytics environment, identified $5 million incremental value impact; Sponsored Alteryx as an automation tool for 95+% time saved.
Strengths in this role: Practical visionary and action-oriented architect who gains the confidence of Boards and CEOs by delivering visible value, effectively solving complex problems, dealing effectively with ambiguity, and leveraging technologies in artificial intelligence and machine learning
Industry Group: Transportation
Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Years of experience: 3 years
Company name: US Venture Inc.
Company size: 3,000 employees
Role in this company: Reported to CEO (dotted line) and Chief Information Officer (solid line), recruited to build a strategic data initiative. Founded and coached a direct team of 17 (data scientists, architect, engineers, analysts, data curation, scrum master, solution architects); Guided additional 50+ data analytics professionals across enterprise Key Accomplishments: Completed major projects delivering 8-10X return on investment (annual benefits $4 million); Developed predictive and prescriptive models
Strengths in this role: Technical programming, team management, project initiation and delivery, internal business strategy consulting, customer relationship management, data science and machine learning, database management, data quality, data governance
Industry Group: Consumer Goods
Industry: Apparel & Fashion
Years of experience: 2 years
Company name: Express Inc.
Company size: 100,000 employees
Role in this company: Express is a fashion apparel retail and eCommerce leader with $2.2 billion revenue and 650 stores. Recruited to create a data science (AI/ML) team (including data scientists, analysts, engineers, and architect). Key Accomplishments: • Created strategic and operational roadmap, implemented AI/ML action plan. • Delivered predictive models for marketing channels and media-mix optimization, expected incremental revenue of $20 million over 2 years, propelled Express to be t
Strengths in this role: Corporate Strategy, health information services, data and analytics strategy, organizational transformation, internal startup, innovation
Industry Group: Health
Industry: Medical Devices
Years of experience: 4 years
Company name: Cardinal Health Inc.
Company size: 40,000 employees
Role in this company: Recruited by and reporting to the top executive in health info strategy, led the enterprise initiative on organizational transformation for data and analytics core capabilities, subsequently appointed to create a data analytics function for Cardinal Health Home Care Unit. • Managed healthcare providers market intelligence center, completed 100+ projects on strategy, sales, marketing, and product research, with synergy savings of $2 million in 18 months
Strengths in this role: Data and analytics solutions, data commercialization, business development, research and development, management consulting, product management, innovation, data science modeling, econometrics, statistics, large scale data, data as a service, analytics as a service, software as a service
Industry Group: Finance
Industry: Financial Services
Years of experience: 5 years
Company name: IXI Corp, an Equifax company
Company size: 120 employees
Role in this company: IXI was a top leader in U.S. consumer marketing analytics solutions; owned by Private Equity investors, later acquired by Equifax for $124 million in 2009. Recruited by and reporting to CEO, led analytical infrastructure, product R&D (econometric and statistical models), segmentation, and digital media analytics solutions across sectors and key clients. Critical contributor in growing revenue from $20 million to $40 million in 5 years (2007-12 US economic recession) at 35% operating margin
Strengths in this role: Database, data warehouse, direct to consumer marketing, healthcare insurance, medical insurance, data science, program management, vendor management
Industry Group: Finance
Industry: Insurance
Years of experience: 2 years
Company name: Anthem Inc.
Company size: 100,000 employees
Role in this company: Reporting to Corporate Marketing Executive, led enterprise database marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) infrastructure for direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing on Individual and Senior plans. Key Accomplishments: • Delivered $2 million cost reduction on annual efficiency gain by predictive models, serving multiple business-lines across media and channels, with direct impact on $70 million marketing and sales budget
Strengths in this role: Internal startup on data and analytics capabilities, scale-up growth mode, statistical predictive modeling, direct to consumer marketing, financial planning and budgeting, team management
Industry Group: Finance
Industry: Banking
Years of experience: 2 years
Company name: Chase Education Finance
Company size: 300 employees
Role in this company: Chase Education Finance was formerly known as Collegiate Funding Services Inc., a top leader in education loans direct marketing, origination, and servicing, with $6 billion assets and a serviced portfolio of $12 billion. Owned by Private Equity investors, later went public as CFSI on NASDAQ in 2005 and was subsequently acquired by JPMorgan Chase for $663 million. Recruited to create the direct-to-consumer database marketing function, significantly scaled up business growth
Strengths in this role: Statistical predictive modeling, team management, internal clients relationship, internal consulting services, data science, large scale database and data warehouse management
Industry Group: Finance
Industry: Banking
Years of experience: 5 years
Company name: Bank of America
Company size: 100,000 employees
Role in this company: Promoted 4 times in 7 years, ultimately responsible for managing 15 data scientists and analytics consultants on marketing and credit risk management, led cross-sell, activation, retention, and customer life-time-value strategy and implementation for 30 million customers; implemented multiple predictive models for $19 million annual cost savings.