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Armin Kakas

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About Armin

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

Recent Articles

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How Strategic Price Customization Recaptures Value

October 1, 2025

The most dangerous threat to profitability isn’t a market crash but the silent erosion of margin from a flawed pricing structure. Most companies unknowingly lose over half of their intended price increases to a “leaky waterfall” of unchecked discounts, rebates, and ad-hoc sales overrides. This article provides a blueprint for building a data-driven, value-based pricing engine to plug these leaks and transform pricing into your most powerful lever for growth.

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Revenue Growth Analytics Maturity in 2025: Why Pricing Punch Still Matters, and How to Land It

September 24, 2025

Revology’s 2025 Revenue Growth Analytics (RGA) Maturity Scorecard confirms pricing is still the most powerful profit lever, but its impact is uneven and difficult for most organizations to capture. Our latest report reveals that 50% of companies remain at a ‘Medium’ maturity level, with significant gaps in promotion ROI and sales enablement analytics that consistently leak value. This article breaks down the four pillars of RGA and provides actionable 90-day playbooks to help leaders close the execution gap and translate price potential into realized profit.

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Tariffs, “Sneakflation,” and the Pricing Tightrope

August 26, 2025

A hidden tariff tax, dubbed “sneakflation,” is quietly raising prices on everyday goods and squeezing business profits. Faced with this pressure, many companies make the mistake of implementing blunt, across-the-board price hikes that can damage sales volume and customer relationships. This post details a smarter, surgical approach, using data-driven strategies like price elasticity analysis and scenario modeling to manage rising costs. Learn how to walk the pricing tightrope to protect your margins without alienating your customer base.

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The Distributor’s Playbook for Growing Share of Wallet

August 20, 2025

Distributors are unknowingly losing profit from their best accounts due to blind spots in pricing, discounting, and product mix. Traditional sales reports can’t detect this slow drain, allowing significant cross-sell opportunities and margin to go untapped. Guided purchase intelligence offers a disciplined framework, combining smart analytics with sales activation to systematically identify and recapture this hidden value. This playbook provides a step-by-step guide to grow your share of wallet and build a more resilient, profitable business.

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How Hidden SKU Profitability Is Dragging Down Your Distribution Business (And How to Fix It)

August 6, 2025

Are you seeing revenue climb while margins get squeezed? Your distribution business is likely caught in the “Portfolio Trap,” where high-volume but unprofitable SKUs secretly drain your bottom line. This article diagnoses the problem, revealing how a lack of granular data and reliance on outdated pricing models hide the true costs eroding your profits. Discover how to fix this by focusing on SKU profitability, enabling you to identify and manage these hidden drags to drive real financial growth.

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The $1 Trillion Blind Spot: Why Most B2B Promotions Destroy Profit

July 30, 2025

What if your biggest sales driver was also your biggest profit drain? For most B2B companies, this is the hidden reality of their trade spend, where a lack of true promotion trade optimization allows margin-destroying activities to hide behind impressive-looking sales lifts. This article exposes the common fallacies—from the “top-line lift” trap to cannibalization blind spots—and provides an analytics-driven framework to turn your promotional budget from an unmanaged expense into a strategic growth investment.

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