Scott Kaufman is the chief analytics and data officer with Baker Tilly. He has more than 28 years of professional experience collaborating with senior executives and business line managers to develop and deliver products, services, industry partnerships and mergers worldwide. Scott is an experienced financial services executive focused on unleashing the value of enterprise data to drive more than $250 million of revenue growth through insights via data analytics.
- Collaborates with business line leaders on how to leverage data to grow product adoption, increase data asset monetization and operational efficiencies
- Developed analytics steering team focused on defining and prioritizing key initiatives based on customer impact, competitive threat, ROI and time to market
- Established and run the enterprise data governance and quality team focused on deploying processes to increase trust, quality and appropriate data usage to ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements
- Executed a scalable, secure cloud data science and analytics service offering for machine learning and advanced analytics utilizing Amazon AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform big data capabilities for use across the enterprise to develop client analytics, customer 360 and insights
- Implemented an enterprise data catalog and data lifecycle management processes for data lineage and provenance
- Lead the migration of all data and analytic systems from on-premises to a hybrid cloud architecture utilizing Azure cloud technologies and Databricks cloud data lake house architecture
- The Conference Boards Data and Analytics leaders council
- Chicago Chief Data Officer community board member
- Chicago Public Schools, volunteer teaching assistant
- Community food sharing program, volunteer
Location
San Francisco, CA
Education
Master of Science in data engineering and predictive analytics
Northwestern University
Master of Business Administration in finance
Marquette University, Milwaukee
Bachelor of Business Administration in management information systems
University Wisconsin-Milwaukee