Location Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Male Also Known As Kshira Saagar
Website kshirasaagar.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Awarded the #2 Analytics Leader in Australia for 2019
Kshira Saagar (Shee-Raa Sa-Ga) has been with the Analytics/Decision Sciences industry for more than a decade now having worked across Americas, Asia, Europe and more importantly Australia. The bulk of his work has been focussed on developing solutions for the Data Science and Analytics
problem spaces of the Retail, Telecom and Insurance marketing departments at some of the leading Fortune 100 clients. In his other roles, he has enabled decision making through data for clients from the Media, Healthcare, Aviation, Logistics and FMCG organisations.
He's a regular speaker at industry conferences and data summits across AU and NZ and has participated in close to 42 speaking engagements in the last 2 years with a few detailed here - http://kshirasaagar.com/speaking-engagements/
Previously at THE ICONIC, he was responsible for institutionalising data-driven analytics across the company’s core competencies and growing a 2 member data-analyst team to a 20+ strong Full Stack data science team entirely based out of their Sydney offices. The wider team was responsible for all the elements of data at the company ranging from Data Engineering (ETL), Dashboards and Analyses and more importantly production-ready algorithms - also known as the Full Stack Data Science team.
He's adept at working with senior executive stakeholders and the board members to solve key strategic company problems using Data Science and AI paradigms, in a business-friendly language that senior decision makers have time to appreciate and act upon. He also uses these skills to help smaller AI start-ups and ventures to raise funds on a pro-bono basis, and get into initial seed rounds and build their initial teams around the modern day data principle.
As a leader in the data space, he believes in the modern day data principle that every singe member of an organisation is a data analyst or scientist and the whole company should have the right tools and the correct access to act as one big data team!
Kshira is also a well published author with quite a few thought-provoking articles and blogs on some of the leading online networks like Wired, AdWeek, Analytics Informs about Data Science and Analytics
