Tim Raiswell

I'm focused on driving up the Return to Grower (RTG) for Oxrow.ai's visionary agribusiness customers. I also lead the best tech and product teams in the ag-support industry.

Loftus Labs is an analytics-as-a-service consulting firm that helps small and mid-sized companies climb the analytic maturity curve. Data engineering, business intelligence and data science are expensive. We started Labs to provide access to a broad range of business analytic capabilities to companies that would otherwise find it difficult to justify the cost of a fully-staffed analytics team. We are passionate about bringing decision science to companies of all sizes. Labs solutions are grounded in business economics like labor cost or inventory waste reduction, not notional IT solutions. I spend my time: • Creating analytic solutions for clients, like multi-product demand forecasts for inventory managers, or fraud analyses for senior executive teams; • Developing Labs vision and mission; • Helping clients see their business differently through fresh eyes and data; • Building decision tools using Python, R, Snowflake & SQL, Tableau, and Azure and AWS cloud services.

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> Driving research and content strategy in Gartner's finance practice. > Developer and lead on the firm's Efficient Growth brand for finance professionals: https://www.cebglobal.com/insights/efficient-growth.html > Create, teach, and maintain processes and standards for six research programs representing $50M+ in contract value. This includes encouraging the adoption of new research methods in data science and analytics. > Industry expert in corporate financial management and finance technology. > Representative for Finance to the Firm's senior research group.

I build innovative products for and advise chief financial officers on financial strategy and corporate performance management using data science. My current areas of focus are: Drivers of Total Shareholder Return, a quantitative time-series analysis of corporate value creation. The CFO's Guide to Business Cycle Management, an analysis of financial strategy constraints across the revenue cycle. Quarterly Earnings Summary, a sector-based analysis of financial strategy trends using natural language processing (NLP). The CFO's Role in Financial Strategy, an analysis of superior CFO approaches to strategic planning, portfolio management, and business interaction.

Developed and launched CEB's successful Finance Leadership Council product, the firm's flagship product for finance executives. Profit and loss responsibility for three CEB Finance membership-based advisory products ($40m in business): The Finance Leadership Council, The Shared Services Leadership Council and The Accounting and Reporting Leadership Council. Responsible for running teams tasked with creating high quality and actionable best practices and benchmarking research. Responsible for product strategy, sales team interaction, quality control, performance goal setting and forecasting, client onboarding, marketing, key client relationship management, competitive intelligence, and identifying and monetizing new opportunities. Led and developed global teams spanning Washington, DC, London, India, Sydney and Singapore.

Created the unique 'Intelligent Growth' research brand for CEB's chief financial officer business that grew by more than 35% globally in 2010/11. Founded and edited the Business Intelligence Quarterly - a 'best practice' business magazine read by more than 7,000 global finance and strategy executives. Original research published by Businessweek, The BusinessFinance Blog, and in Citigroup and RBS internal staff magazines, amongst other publications Provide tailored research and advice directly to Global 1000 CFOs, treasurers, heads of financial planning, and directors of investor relations. Manager of a global research team spanning India (staff of six), Europe (multiple stakeholders) and the United States (staff of three) Recruited as a senior analyst and promoted three times in six years to senior director of research.

Constructed detailed threat and policy assessments for senior intelligence personnel and politicians: Briefed senior government personnel, including the Prime Minister's office, with analytical results Led research teams analyzing a wide variety of public and intelligence source material Managed two inter-agency analytical projects examining business overlaps and efficiency: Specifically chosen to run the projects due to consistently high-quality analytical performance