Season 6, Episode 4 - Don Vu, Chief Data Officer, Northwestern Mutual

A discussion with Don Vu, Chief Data Officer, @Northwestern Mutual. Don has had a wide-ranging career including many years with Major League Baseball, as well as roles with WeWork, Atari, and his own ecommerce company.  

He talks about how running his web business taught him how to be scrappy, entrepreneurial, and just get anything done that needs done. He discusses how Northwester Mutual is disrupting itself, and also about the different types of analytics happening in sports, how MLB Advanced Media’s streaming platform came to be the engine driving many of today’s major streaming sites, and why he thinks EQ and communication skills are so important.    

#analytics #datascience #leadership #machinelearning #ai #artificialintelligence #NorthwesternMutual #WeWork #MLB #Atari