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Armin Kakas

Founder, Managing Partner

Armin is a high-octane advanced analytics and revenue management expert with an entrepreneurial spirit and hands-on leadership style. His Commercial Analytics advisory work and data commercialization strategies have driven transformational change for companies and opened new data revenue streams.

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Armin is a high-octane advanced analytics and revenue management expert with an entrepreneurial spirit and hands-on leadership style. His Commercial Analytics advisory work and data commercialization strategies have driven transformational change for companies and opened new data revenue streams.

As Vice President, Head of Advanced Analytics Commercialization at North America’s leading $5.5B consumer durables distributor, Armin co-founded an analytics subsidiary that enabled the parent company to monetize its data while improving its business decision-making capabilities. He grew the business from 0 to over 2,500 retail locations and manufacturers as customers, providing them with innovative SaaS solutions that captured Point-of-Sale transactional data and served up syndicated market insights, profit, sales mix, and inventory optimization capabilities. Armin masterminded and launched ML-enabled Commercial Analytics products for internal groups in Revenue Management, Sales, and Marketing, contributing to an impressive 35% sales increase and 2x EBITDA growth within three years.

Before this role, Armin was the Head of Data Science in the Revenue Management group, where he built and launched a pricing optimization platform within 90 days. He created the company’s first machine learning-enabled pricing markdown optimization solution, unlocking significant liquidity and gross profit opportunities.

Armin’s career spans 15+ years in B2C and B2B Revenue Growth Analytics, with a strong track record of boosting volume and profits while delivering positive customer outcomes.

His analytics career began at a leading Food & Beverage Company, where he transformed a pricing execution team into a data-driven strategic revenue management group. His work continued at a Fortune 100 retailer, building the company’s dynamic pricing capability and deploying it to over 1,000 retail stores.

A trusted authority in the field, Armin maintains a keen awareness of the Commercial Analytics landscape, actively managing a popular newsletter and hosting analytics webinars for anyone seeking to understand and capitalize on the dynamics of Revenue Growth Analytics.

Education

  • UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA – DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
    MBA – Decision Analytics and Business Ethics Focus
  • BAKER UNIVERSITY
    Bachelor of Business Administration

Certifications & Continued Education

  • Executive Certificate in Technology & Operations, Data Monetization – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Graduate Certificate Program in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence – MIT
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer (Google)
  • Graduate Certificate Program in Machine Learning – University of Washington Summer Prog
  • Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, Bayesian Modeling – University of Michigan
  • Executive Education Program, Pricing Strategies – The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Specializations in Deep Learning and Data Science

Organizations

  • Promotion Optimization Institute
  • The American Statistical Association
  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Posts

Chart comparing traditional and Bayesian pricing models showing revenue effects.
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Armin Kakas

RA Quick Insights: The Power of Bayesian Analysis for Pricing Scenario Modeling

If you haven’t tried #bayesian analysis to attack common business problems, I highly encourage you to explore it.

Companies’ data science curve often starts with linear regression before a giant leap to ML within weeks or months (ensemble models, even some deep learning).

In pragmatic terms, the power of Bayesian modeling comes from being able to assign probability intervals to predictions.

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Armin Kakas

RA Quick Insights: Using Sales Stack Ranking to Grow Net Sales & Profits

Commercial Analytics, aimed at improving Gross Profits and Sales Productivity, doesn’t have to be complex to drive the proper outcomes with Pricing and Sales teams.

𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 & 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 is another simple yet effective Revenue Analytics technique to steer Sales behavior in the right direction and drive incremental Net Sales (and Gross Profits).

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Armin Kakas

How to Build Transformative Margin Optimization Capabilities in 90 days: Part 1

Most mid-market companies are still stuck with basic reports and ad-hoc Pricing & Profitability analyses that take several weeks, offer little actionable insights, and are not reproducible. There is also a widespread misconception that it takes heavy upfront investment (both time and money) to build Margin Analytics & Optimization platforms that can truly transform an organization’s Pricing discipline and customer & product analytics rigor.

Regardless of your company’s growth stage, it is paramount that you have an easy-to-use and actionable Margin Analytics platform that provides rapid descriptive (what happened), diagnostic (what caused it), and predictive (what will be the impact) analytics capabilities.

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Armin Kakas

Revenue Growth Analytics and Sales: It’s a Team Sport

Commercial Analytics in B2B environments is a team sport: you need to win the trust and credibility of the Sales Team to accelerate the impact of analytics and drive sustainable Pricing and Data ROI for your company.

Read this brief opinion piece on why listening to and collaborating with your Sales teams is not optional – it’s essential.

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Data analytics platform for pricing, inventory, and sales optimization.
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Armin Kakas

The Importance of Knowing Your Price Elasticities

Why is it essential to understand the business impact of Price changes and Promotional investments, and what are the analytical approaches to estimating Price elasticities?

With continued data proliferation and the democratization of popular Machine Learning methods among the data analyst community, knowing your Price and Promotional elasticities at the Customer-Product level is fundamental to Finance, Sales, and Revenue management.

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