Anna Maria Peddanedi

Anna Maria Peddanedi

Director,Data Insights and AI @ CARFAX Canada

About

As a forward-looking, agile leader in data analytics and data products, I provide the vision, strategy, and deep analytics to level up products and performance in a compelling way. DATA PRODUCTS & ANALYTICS — I plan, execute, introduce and drive adoption for a portfolio of agile BI data products and analytics platforms. — I uncover insights that inform crucial decisions and identify opportunities to add value for customers and users. — Leading critical technical projects and implementations, I lead teams to deliver on time and budget. — I keep multidisciplinary teams informed and aligned with the overall business strategy. LEARN > INNOVATE > ITERATE — I embrace ambiguity to consistently deliver winning products. — I enjoy exploring new technologies, methodologies, and tools and encourage my teams to experiment, too! — I work effectively across functional and organizational lines to balance business and consumer needs. Interrelating smoothly across diverse groups and stakeholders, my teams appreciate my ability to empower and foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and excellence. Care to connect? Let’s chat about: Digital Analytics • Consumer Analytics • Machine Learning Commercial Product Management • Data Product Management Marketing Mix Models • Marketing Analytics • Predictive Modeling • Advanced Analytics & Insights Program Management • Project Management Process Improvement • E-Commerce • B2B2C Customer Segmentation • Customer Behavior • Customer Insights Data Science • Business Intelligence

Country

Canada

City

Greater Toronto Area

Industry

Retail

Skill

Team Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Customer Segmentation Strategy, Dashboards, Product Analytics, Deep Learning, Consumer Insight, Technology Roadmapping, Product Launch, Cross functional team leadership, Business Insights, Data Analytics, Product Management, Team Leadership, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Product Leadership, Product Development, Product Road Mapping, Data Products, Business Strategy

Experience

CARFAX Canada

Director,Data Insights and AI

CARFAX Canada

LinkedIn
2024-12 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

London, ON

WeCloudData

Course Instructor

WeCloudData

LinkedIn
2024-6 - 2025-6 · 1 yr 1 mo

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Allevar Inc.

Director, Data Analytics

Allevar Inc.

2024-5 - 2024-11 · 7 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

thinkrr.ai

Founding Member - AI Product and Operations

thinkrr.ai

LinkedIn
2024-3 - 2024-7 · 5 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

AutoTrader.ca

Director Data Products and Insights

AutoTrader.ca

LinkedIn
2022-5 - 2023-9 · 1 yr 5 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

GroupM

Director Insights and Analytics

GroupM

LinkedIn
2021-9 - 2022-5 · 9 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In this recent role, I worked closely with internal and external stakeholders to drive optimization across media channels. I led the analyst team assessing campaign performance to discover insights and create reports to deliver brand awareness, multi-channel media, top-line conversions, consumer acquisition, and retention. — Leveled up the analytics function to provide business intelligence while exploring new opportunities for B2B clients. — Created roadmap and strategy to evolve to the “To-Be” state for advanced analytics. — Shared thought leadership and performed competitive, market, and trend analyses.

President's Choice Financial

Senior Analyst, Product Insights and Analytics

President's Choice Financial

LinkedIn
2019-5 - 2021-9 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Here, I provided in-depth analyses of marketing channels, customer behavior, products, conversions, and campaigns. I tested and developed integrated solutions to boost credit and debit use. I tapped into data within loyalty, retail, financial, and subscription services to improve spend, customer acquisition / retention, and partner sales. — Provided transparency into consumer behavior, spending patterns, and trends across segments with customer, product, and transactional reports and dashboards. —Improvement in retention costs by segmenting top-line card holders impacted by Mastercard changes. — Lift in customer acquisition through strategic pivot during the pandemic. Conducted multi-variable analysis of location, historical performance, and customer behavior. — Increase in acquisitions after using customer-store location attribution to enable successful product launch during the pandemic. — Contributed to growth and acquisition strategies by analyzing the use of debit and cash products by enterprise customers. — Developed campaign strategy: defined control and target groups, tracked campaign performance, and assessed sales impact.

SharpestMinds

Data Scientist(Project)

SharpestMinds

LinkedIn
2019-3 - 2019-5 · 3 mos

Toronto, Canada Area

Working under the direction of the former Director of Data Science at PWC, I built a synthetic population dataset using deep learning / neural networks. — Used NN to build synthetic population dataset with demographic and geographic features. — Extracted key features to train models to address issues in banking, retail, healthcare, and more.

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC

Manager, Digital Analytics

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC

LinkedIn
2015-8 - 2018-4 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

I established, trained, and mentored a team of digital analysts. I defined, communicated, and enforced analytics standards, policies, and data governance. I delivered automated reports, performance dashboards, and insights. I performed data capture, software installation/configuration, tool maintenance, user admin and tool use audits. I facilitated user training and improved processes. — Introduced CX capabilities on 20+ applications. — Prototyped new metrics and KPIs to clarify opportunities, issues, consumer retention, engagement, and quality. — Reduction in implementation expenses for a key project by training internal resources. — Improved system performances using optimization and data cleaning processes. — Secured budget major initiative after fostering communication channels among teams and leadership. — Acceleration in issue resolution by emphasizing the importance of data for digital projects. — Spearheaded CX initiative with $XM budget. — Set up metrics, KPIs, reports, and automated alerts. Led installation of plugin suite. Implemented data capture, replay configuration, and established capture integration, and privacy.

Cognizant

Manager,Web Analytics

Cognizant

LinkedIn
2013-10 - 2015-8 · 1 yr 11 mos

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

My projects in this role aligned customer experience (CX) and KPIs. I led installations, data capture, reporting, and integration with VoC tools. I implemented automations and created events in the CX management tool, IBM Tealeaf. — Managed $XM+ digital analytics project, managing the budget to cut project costs in half. Handled sourcing, training, vendors, and reporting. Led tagging, data capture, and VoC and Digital Analytics tool integration. — Introduced digital data governance, information security, and privacy policies. — Analyzed customer behavior patterns to improve customer experience, streamline functionality, and identify risk.

Cognizant

Web Analytics Lead

Cognizant

LinkedIn
2012-7 - 2013-9 · 1 yr 3 mos

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

As a technical project lead, I oversaw initiatives related to digital analytics. I managed Adobe Data Workbench data profiles, configurations, reprocessing, and data integration. I managed tools and processed / validated data. I evaluated event patterns, configured profiles, user admin, and applications. I tracked KPIs and delivered reports. — Led $250K / yr project working closely with colleagues to develop proposal. — 15% boost in system performance using optimization and data cleaning processes. — Informed product updates via insights derived from data mining. — Optimized tagging to provide transparency into the ROI of features, projects, and releases. — Integrated multiple data sources: website, CRM, and mobile.

Cognizant

Web Analytics Consultant

Cognizant

LinkedIn
2006-12 - 2012-6 · 5 yrs 7 mos

India,USA

In this early role, I handled requirements, analyses, coding, development, and documentation. I designed data profiles, dataset configurations, and transformations. I assessed tags and event patterns. I streamlined reports and configurations; managed KPIs, tools, and data validation. I created and managed dashboards and processed scorecards. — Uncovered behavioral insights and trends with data mining. — Evaluated new products and functionality based on KPIs. — Revamped program and developed new procedures / processes to focus on the end user and production. — Acted in LongView Trading System (LVTS) and Adobe Analytics migrations.

Education

Smith School of Business at Queen's University

Smith School of Business at Queen's University

LinkedIn

Analytics

2021-1 - 2022-1 · 1 yr 1 mo
WeCloudData

WeCloudData

LinkedIn

Data Engineering

2024-2 - 2024-9 · 8 mos
Product Faculty

Product Faculty

LinkedIn
2023-7 - 2023-8 · 2 mos
BrainStation

BrainStation

LinkedIn

Digital Marketing

2019 - 2019
BrainStation

BrainStation

LinkedIn

Data Science

2018 - 2018
York University

York University

LinkedIn

Data Analytics

2018 - 2018
Anna University Chennai

Anna University Chennai

LinkedIn

Information Technology

2003 - 2006 · 3 yrs

Masters in Computer Applications

University of Madras

University of Madras

LinkedIn

Computer Science

2000 - 2003 · 3 yrs
Simplilearn Alumni

Simplilearn Alumni

LinkedIn

Applied Generative AI Specialization

2025-6 - 2025-11 · 6 mos
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

LinkedIn

Generative AI for Business

2025-11 - 2026-1 · 3 mos

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