Nabeel Azar and Cheryl Blake
Nabeel Azar is the chief operating officer of Verisk Retail, is the COO of Verisk Retail, chair of the Verisk Data Science Excellence Program, and a managing Director of Analytics at Argus, a Verisk Analytics Business. He has over 20 yrs of experience applying technology and quantitative techniques to solving problems in engineering, finance, and analytics. Before joining Verisk, Azar held leadership roles in portfolio optimization and electronic trading at ITG, Lehman Brothers, and Nomura. His earlier career included work at The MathWorks, focusing on numerical analysis, optimization, and distributed computing. Azar received a BS in electrical and biomedical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University.
Cheryl Blake is the vice president of business development at Verisk Retail.
Taking a Dip into Retail Data Management
As we increasingly turn to data for the insights that drive our decisions, we do so with the assumptions that the data is available to us, we can use it, and—even more importantly—that it is correct. None of this happens without excellent retail data management. (Bonus: LPM Podcast content!)
