As tech innovations continue to change the world winners need to understand data if they want to win in the future. Georgia is becoming quite the swing state. It was ugly this year but not for Governor Kemp who easily won re-election. One reason he crushed it was his data operation that sliced and diced universes to deliver the right messages to the right people. That data operation was led by Mark Stephenson who joins us for this episode. We get real nerdy.
Mark Stephenson is the Founder/CEO of Red Oak Strategic, an Alexandria, VA-based data science, analytics, and targeting firm, and Amazon Web Services Consulting Partner.
Red Oak Strategic specializes in data science, data engineering, machine learning/AI, cloud consulting, and strategy services, and for over 10 years, has worked with Fortune 50 companies, political campaigns, and organizations on their data engineering, targeting, and data analytics needs.
Mark has served as Head of Data & Analytics for a major 2016 American presidential campaign, is frequently called upon by national and local media for his data science insights, and was called a top data scientist in 2015 by Wired Magazine.