Taking Data Analytics to the Next Level - Daugherty Business … · 2018-06-11 · Framing the “Next Level” G2I and Daugherty are proud to bring to you this distinguished panel

Taking Data Analytics to the Next Level

Moderated by:

May 16, 2018America’s Center: Room 241

Second Floor

Framing the “Next Level”G2I and Daugherty are proud to bring to you this distinguished panel of St. Louis leaders who will share the latest information on where Data Analytics is today and where it is going. These leaders are on the leading edge of the use of data to drive business results.

In recent years, Data Analytics has evolved. Now perceived as critical to unlocking future growth, managing cost and decreasing risk, information management is a top priority for business leaders around the world. While many organizations are grappling with the challenges of managing data and fully understanding descriptive analytics, more mature companies are using data to discover new ways to create business value.

Today’s discussion features leaders who understand how to harness the power of Data Analytics to save lives, reduce customer churn, increase crop yields and even disrupt the insurance industry. Learn how they are making a powerful impact on their organization’s business, while simultaneously guiding their colleagues toward a data-driven culture.

These leaders are working side-by-side with Data Scientists and other information technology professionals to drive insights and gain knowledge directly from the data. Serving as innovators in the St. Louis region, these data management executives hold the key to better understanding the current state, and the future, of Data Analytics.

Ron Daugherty is President and CEO of Daugherty Business Solutions, which he founded in 1985 with his wife Jan Daugherty. Under Ron’s leadership, Daugherty has become a leading provider of solutions in the areas of enterprise planning, digital engagement, Agile transformation, technology optimization, IoT and mobile applications, big data, and analytics for major corporations. Ron has led the growth and development of additional branch offices and development centers in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, and St. Louis with Daugherty now employing over 1,000 IT and business consultants.

Today, Ron devotes much of his time to meetings with senior business executives discussing his vision for achieving business results through technology and helping build business/IT partnerships. He has presented to a number of groups on topics including strategic planning, leadership, and encouraging young people to pursue technology careers. Before starting Daugherty, Ron worked as a Systems Analyst for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), Monsanto and Emerson Electric Company. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Arkansas – Jonesboro and did graduate work in applied automation at the University of Missouri – Columbia.

In 2012, Ron was presented by the Gateway Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Inspiration Award and currently serves on its board as well as the United Way of Greater St. Louis and The Magic House.

A former Golden Gloves amateur boxing champion, Ron’s hobbies include blues harmonica, equestrian sports, and fencing. In 2017, Ron represented the United States in the Pan American Youth and Veteran Championships hosted in St. Thomas, earning a gold medal in the Men’s Foil competition.

Ron DaughertyPresident & CEODaugherty Business Solutions

Tom leads Knowledge Solutions, Express Scripts’ enterprise analytic and data governance capabilities. His team has developed a best-in-class data governance model to ensure Express Scripts’ nearly 22 petabyte healthcare data ecosystem is accurate and fit for purpose. The data ecosystem is then leveraged by Knowledge Solutions’ team of more than 250 data professionals to produce the PBM industry’s best, most comprehensive set of analytic solutions.

His current focus is on delivering Express Scripts’ next generation of data management and analytics solutions. These breakthrough solutions are being used to deliver patient-centered, data-driven healthcare experiences. The solutions build on Express Scripts’ mastery of behavioral economics to predict the risk of individuals being diagnosed with chronic diseases. These next generation analytic solutions enable Express Scripts to target high-risk patients with tailored interventions proven to improve their health and quality of life.

Community serviceTom serves on several educational boards, including the University of Missouri’s Data Science and Analytics Advisory Board and Washington University’s Center for Customer Analytics and Big Data (CCABD).

Tom has also served the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) as a National Vice President since 2010. He is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals suffering from neuromuscular diseases.

Educational backgroundBS, Computer Information Systems,

Missouri State University

Business philosophyData-driven organizations simply outperform those led by intuition.

Tom HenryChief Data Officer and Vice President Knowledge SolutionsExpress Scripts

Express Scripts at a Glance

Express Scripts is a pharmacy services company putting medicine within reach. We deliver smarter pharmacy services through bold action, specialized care, data insights and innovative solutions, making healthcare more affordable and accessible for nearly one in three Americans.

Our legacy of innovation and bold action is seen throughout our company’s 30+ years. We have successfully helped patients and clients overcome great challenges in healthcare by doing two things incredibly well: taking care of patients and controlling costs. Our continued success relies on our commitment to do what’s right for our patients and clients, and to always keep patients at the center of everything we do.

Headquartered in St. Louis, Express Scripts is the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager. We provide network-pharmacy claims processing, home delivery pharmacy care, specialty pharmacy care, benefit-design consultation, drug utilization review, formulary management and medical and drug data analysis services. Express Scripts also distributes a full range of biopharmaceutical products and provides extensive cost-management and patient-care services. Our subsidiaries include Accredo specialty pharmacy; eviCore healthcare, the leader in medical benefit management; and myMatrixx, providing pharmacy services for workers’ compensation.

On March 7, 2018, it was announced that Cigna Corporation would buy Express Scripts in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $67 billion.

1 Express Way, St. Louis, MO 63121

CEO Tim Wentworth CIO Ron GuerrierAnnual Revenue $100B Employees 26,600Fortune Rank 22 Americans

Served83M

Capital Expeditures

~$300M Annual Adjusted Prescriptions

1.4B

Abigail (Abbi) Doolittle is Vice President, Global Advanced Analytics Marketing Science, for RGAx, the transformation engine of Reinsurance Group of America, Inc (RGA) that is helping drive change within the life insurance ecosystem. Experienced in both data science and in building analytic capability, Abbi’s focus is on providing commercial analytic solution leadership and delivery to RGAx’s customers.

Abbi comes to RGAx with a substantial background in insight-driven marketing and its role in business strategy. Prior to RGAx she was with DXC Technology, where she served as global data science methodologist and marketing science expert in several positions of increasing responsibility, beginning as Partner with the Big Data & Analytics practice and culminating as Distinguished Technologist for the Life Insurance vertical. Previously, she was with Knowledge Base Marketing Group as the advanced analytics practice lead for a national direct response agency focused on health services. She has also been an adjunct professor of marketing at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School and has provided insight-driven marketing expertise to a range of companies, both as a consultant and an associate.

Abbi is formally trained as an applied economist focused on behavioral modeling, with an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Abbi also received a bachelor’s degree with a double major in Economics and German from Hobart and William Smith College, and after college participated in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange, a government-funded program that provides an immersive experience for young adults in German culture, education and work life.

Abigail Doolittle, PhDVice President, Advanced Analytics Marketing ScienceRGAx

Who is RGAx?

For over 40 years, Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) has been in the unyielding pursuit of the “next big thing” in life and health insurance. This steady march has built a companythat now generates over $10 billion of annual revenue from offices in 26 countries around the world. Along the way, RGA’s underwriters, actuaries, data scientists and engineers introduced a continuous wave of innovations to the market, and supported a creative, entrepreneurial, customer-focused culture. At RGAx, we're proud to be part of the next chapter of this global story.

www.RGAx.com

IT’S TIME TO REIMAGINE, RETHINK AND REINVENT INSURANCE TO MAKE LIFE BETTER.

RGAx is the transformation engine of RGA that leverages the talent, resources, and insight of RGA's 40+ years of innovation. By partnering with carriers and entrepreneurs, RGAx is incubating and accelerating new solutions and services to change the insurace ecosystem.

We're passionately driven to ensure success for our clients and the insurance industry while achieving our core purpose of helping people live longer, healthier more financially secure lives, everywhere.

RGAx Capabilities

Data & Analytics

Digital Distribution

Insurance Services

Consumer Engagement

RGAx Capabilities

Who is RGAx?

For over 40 years, Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) has been in the unyielding pursuit of the “next big thing” in life and health insurance. This steady march has built a companythat now generates over $10 billion of annual revenue from offices in 26 countries around the world. Along the way, RGA’s underwriters, actuaries, data scientists and engineers introduced a continuous wave of innovations to the market, and supported a creative, entrepreneurial, customer-focused culture. At RGAx, we're proud to be part of the next chapter of this global story.

www.RGAx.com

IT’S TIME TO REIMAGINE, RETHINK AND REINVENT INSURANCE TO MAKE LIFE BETTER.

RGAx is the transformation engine of RGA that leverages the talent, resources, and insight of RGA's 40+ years of innovation. By partnering with carriers and entrepreneurs, RGAx is incubating and accelerating new solutions and services to change the insurace ecosystem.

We're passionately driven to ensure success for our clients and the insurance industry while achieving our core purpose of helping people live longer, healthier more financially secure lives, everywhere.

RGAx Capabilities

Data & Analytics

Digital Distribution

Insurance Services

Consumer Engagement

RGAx Capabilities

Who is RGAx

www.RGAx.com

For over 40 years, Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) has been in the unyielding pursuit of the “next big thing” in life and health insurance. This steady march has built a company that now generates over $10 billion of annual revenue from offices in 26 countries around the world. Along the way, RGA’s underwriters, actuaries, data scientists and engineers introduced a continuous wave of innovations to the market, and supported a creative, entrepreneurial, customer-focused culture. At RGAx, we’re proud to be part of the next chapter of this global story.

RGAx is the transformation engine of RGA that leverages the talent, resources, and insight of RGA’s 40+ years of innovation. By partnering with carriers and entrepreneurs, RGAx is incubating and accelerating new solutions and services to change the insurance ecosystem.

We’re passionately driven to ensure success for our clients and the insurance industry while achieving our core purpose of helping people live longer, healthier more financially secure lives, everywhere.

Who is RGAx?

For over 40 years, Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) has been in the unyielding pursuit of the “next big thing” in life and health insurance. This steady march has built a companythat now generates over $10 billion of annual revenue from offices in 26 countries around the world. Along the way, RGA’s underwriters, actuaries, data scientists and engineers introduced a continuous wave of innovations to the market, and supported a creative, entrepreneurial, customer-focused culture. At RGAx, we're proud to be part of the next chapter of this global story.

www.RGAx.com

IT’S TIME TO REIMAGINE, RETHINK AND REINVENT INSURANCE TO MAKE LIFE BETTER.

RGAx is the transformation engine of RGA that leverages the talent, resources, and insight of RGA's 40+ years of innovation. By partnering with carriers and entrepreneurs, RGAx is incubating and accelerating new solutions and services to change the insurace ecosystem.

We're passionately driven to ensure success for our clients and the insurance industry while achieving our core purpose of helping people live longer, healthier more financially secure lives, everywhere.

RGAx Capabilities

Data & Analytics

Digital Distribution

Insurance Services

Consumer Engagement

RGAx Capabilities

Naveen Singla is passionate about driving better decisions using data and analytics. He has more than 10 years of experience finding meaning in data for applications in the areas of biometrics, high-frequency stock trading, and most recently, agriculture. He is the Data Science Center of Excellence Lead and Director of Analytics at Monsanto working with talented and inquisitive people to transform the world’s oldest profession.

During his tenure at Monsanto, he has helped grow the value realized from data science and to establish a data-driven mindset by developing strategies, influencing leaders, and implementing solutions all towards the goal of improving food security. A constant learner, he has established a learning program and culture for Monsanto’s 500 strong data science community. In 2018, Naveen was awarded the Ones to Watch award from the CIO and the CIO Executive Council.

Naveen derives energy from connecting different ideas and bringing people together to solve real-world problems. During his Bachelor’s study in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India, he was inspired by Claude Shannon’s ideas on transmitting information on noisy channels and decided to pursue a PhD at Washington University in St. Louis in the same field. There he studied Bayesian inference which led him to delve deeper into how machines learn structure from data - that’s how it all began.

He enjoys reading books on the history of mathematics and is currently working on his toughest assignment – teaching math to his 6-year old daughter.

Naveen SinglaData Science Center of Excellence Lead and Director of AnalyticsMonsanto

Monsanto at a Glance

Monsanto is a global modern agriculture company. We develop products and tools to help farmers around the world grow crops while using energy, water, and land more efficiently. We believe innovation has the potential to bring humanity’s needs in balance with the resources of our planet.

Through programs and partnerships, we collaborate with farmers, researchers, nonprofit organizations, universities and others to help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. We work to find sustainable solutions for soil health, help farmers use data to improve farming practices and conserve natural resources, and provide crop protection products to minimize damage from pests and disease.

Innovative SolutionsWe’re working to create tools to help farmers collect and analyze data about their land and resources. This allows farmers to maximize the effectiveness of all the tools they use. We also use data analytics to drive many of our platforms, including RNAi technology, greenhouse automation, metabolomics, and automated screening.

To overcome the challenges agriculture faces, we must innovate and develop new products faster. With the next generation of farming at our doorstep, it’s time for all of us to grow. By combining with Bayer, we will bring together the very best crop protection and seed technology. We will increase the speed of innovation and get tools to farmers faster.

World Headquarter, St. Louis, MO | Agribusiness Leader: Founded in 1901

To learn more about Monsanto, please visit monsanto.com. Follow us on Twitter® at twitter.com/MonsantoCo and Facebook.com/MonsantoCo

CEO Hugh Grant CIO Jim SwansonAnnual Revenue $14.64B Employees 26,600Fortune Rank 204 Operations 350+ facilties in

60 CountriesR&D $1.6B invested

in 2017

Naveen Pinjani ModeratorNaveen Pinjani is the Director of Big Data Analytics for Daugherty Business Solutions with over 17 years of experience as a Business Analytics and Technology professional. He has 10 years with a focus in data integration, data quality and data modeling, and 7 years managing a multi-

vendor data reconciliation program. Throughout his career, Naveen has led multiple data governance and data quality strategy engagements focused on helping organizations define a pragmatic way to address data quality, metadata and master data challenges. He is helping organizations in the areas of modernizing enterprise data strategy, new operating models, “Mode2” data architectures, real-time analytics and data governance.

Prior to joining Daugherty, Naveen was a Consulting Partner at Tata Consultancy Services where he performed technology advisory and consulting services for Fortune 50 clients. Naveen has been in a number of consulting roles across many clients including JPMC, HSBC, Pfizer, Amgen, PepsiCo, Federal Reserve, and many others in both the public and private sectors.

Naveen received a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and a master’s degree in Computer Science from DA University. Outside the office Naveen is an avid photographer and tennis player.

Thank You for Attending TodayA Parting Thought About Learning, Growing and Creating: “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.”Bill JoyCo-founderSun Microsystems

“It is not because companies are hiring dumb people. It is not because employees in any given firm are not smart. It is because of the nature of knowledge – getting hold of it is tough.”Eric von HippelProfessor of Technological InnovationMIT Sloan School of Management

“Even if you get the best and the brightest to work for you, there will always be an infinite number of other, smarter people employed by others.”Todd ParkFormer Chief Technology OfficerUnited States Government

“Great things happen when you bring smart people together and help them share their knowledge and work together.”Ron DaughertyPresident and CEODaugherty Business Solutions

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