Ugam, a global leader in managed analytics, today announced that analytics industry veteran Dr. Suresh Divakar has joined its team, with a focus on driving growth for the company’s managed analytics services.
Dr. Divakar has worked previously in strategic consulting and analytics roles at Avon Products, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Citigroup, Kraft Foods and PepsiCo. Having extensive domain experience in consumer, financial services and pharmaceutical industry research, his specialties include sophisticated big data analytics, consumer research and insights, strategic planning, forecasting, demand management, business intelligence, pricing and optimization.
“Suresh’s extensive experience with large enterprises and his depth of knowledge as a practitioner will be great assets to the Ugam team to further its growth momentum in analytics services,” said Ugam Co-Founder and CEO Sunil Mirani. “He brings tremendous client-side insights that will enable us to provide valuable insights to our clients.”
Like many of Ugam’s executives, Dr. Divakar has an engineering degree and an M.B.A. He received his B.S. in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; his M.B.A. with a focus in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Iowa. Divakar has also been a guest speaker at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, the University of South Carolina and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and served on the policy advisory boards at the University of Maryland and The University of Iowa.
About Ugam
Ugam is a global leader in managed analytics that helps retailers, brands and market research firms transform big data into valuable insights. The company’s unique managed services offering combines a proprietary big data technology platform with deep domain knowledge and analytics expertise to empower clients to make decisions that improve their business. For retailers, online marketplaces and brands, Ugam supports better merchandising, marketing and channel management decisions through the use of analytics. For market research firms and insight-based consultancies, Ugam offers a portfolio of solutions including end-to-end research operations, technology transitioning support, and data warehousing, visualization and reporting that enables them to better serve their clients. Five of the top 10 U.S. retailers, many of the world’s largest brands and online marketplaces, and 13 of the top 25 market research firms work with Ugam because of its ability to deliver high-quality insights with unmatched customer experience.
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