Ben Craigo
Director, Data & Analytics at Woodstream Corporation- Claim this Profile
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John C. Canevari
I cannot speak highly enough about my experience working with Ben Craigo. 18 months ago Ben joined our fledgling innovation team at Novo Nordisk, and supported this team in fostering a new understanding, awareness, and embrace of data technology and its vital importance to the mission of solving problems for patients who experience Type II Diabetes - a devastating disease. Ben’s understanding of this space, and its application to driving disruptive innovation through the complexities of the pharmaceutical industry, was crucial to putting Novo Nordisk on the map of companies forging new paradigms of inventive thinking. Through Ben’s leadership, mentoring and strategy skills, this innovation team now has a solid data-strategy foundation to grow upon. Ben was the essential piece to making this a reality.
Bhanu Prakash N.
Ben is wonderful to work with, and has exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching, motivation. He consistently demonstrated a solid work ethic at Infocepts a dedication to success. He is not only a reliable and forward thinking Account Manager but also an inspiring team player. He is a gifted negotiator with a rare combination of patience, spunk, and research skills. Ben already has the essential characteristics: smart and analytic, fast and responsive, intelligent risk-taking, and a real team player. His ideas are exceedingly creative and thought-provoking, and his implementation is always impressive. He is very calm under pressure and is always able to manage unforeseen events smoothly. He knows how to bring the best out of the members of his team, by inspiring and mentoring them. It was a pleasure to have learned some of these qualities and I am thankful for guiding me professionally and personally!
John C. Canevari
I cannot speak highly enough about my experience working with Ben Craigo. 18 months ago Ben joined our fledgling innovation team at Novo Nordisk, and supported this team in fostering a new understanding, awareness, and embrace of data technology and its vital importance to the mission of solving problems for patients who experience Type II Diabetes - a devastating disease. Ben’s understanding of this space, and its application to driving disruptive innovation through the complexities of the pharmaceutical industry, was crucial to putting Novo Nordisk on the map of companies forging new paradigms of inventive thinking. Through Ben’s leadership, mentoring and strategy skills, this innovation team now has a solid data-strategy foundation to grow upon. Ben was the essential piece to making this a reality.
Bhanu Prakash N.
Ben is wonderful to work with, and has exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching, motivation. He consistently demonstrated a solid work ethic at Infocepts a dedication to success. He is not only a reliable and forward thinking Account Manager but also an inspiring team player. He is a gifted negotiator with a rare combination of patience, spunk, and research skills. Ben already has the essential characteristics: smart and analytic, fast and responsive, intelligent risk-taking, and a real team player. His ideas are exceedingly creative and thought-provoking, and his implementation is always impressive. He is very calm under pressure and is always able to manage unforeseen events smoothly. He knows how to bring the best out of the members of his team, by inspiring and mentoring them. It was a pleasure to have learned some of these qualities and I am thankful for guiding me professionally and personally!
John C. Canevari
I cannot speak highly enough about my experience working with Ben Craigo. 18 months ago Ben joined our fledgling innovation team at Novo Nordisk, and supported this team in fostering a new understanding, awareness, and embrace of data technology and its vital importance to the mission of solving problems for patients who experience Type II Diabetes - a devastating disease. Ben’s understanding of this space, and its application to driving disruptive innovation through the complexities of the pharmaceutical industry, was crucial to putting Novo Nordisk on the map of companies forging new paradigms of inventive thinking. Through Ben’s leadership, mentoring and strategy skills, this innovation team now has a solid data-strategy foundation to grow upon. Ben was the essential piece to making this a reality.
Bhanu Prakash N.
Ben is wonderful to work with, and has exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching, motivation. He consistently demonstrated a solid work ethic at Infocepts a dedication to success. He is not only a reliable and forward thinking Account Manager but also an inspiring team player. He is a gifted negotiator with a rare combination of patience, spunk, and research skills. Ben already has the essential characteristics: smart and analytic, fast and responsive, intelligent risk-taking, and a real team player. His ideas are exceedingly creative and thought-provoking, and his implementation is always impressive. He is very calm under pressure and is always able to manage unforeseen events smoothly. He knows how to bring the best out of the members of his team, by inspiring and mentoring them. It was a pleasure to have learned some of these qualities and I am thankful for guiding me professionally and personally!
John C. Canevari
I cannot speak highly enough about my experience working with Ben Craigo. 18 months ago Ben joined our fledgling innovation team at Novo Nordisk, and supported this team in fostering a new understanding, awareness, and embrace of data technology and its vital importance to the mission of solving problems for patients who experience Type II Diabetes - a devastating disease. Ben’s understanding of this space, and its application to driving disruptive innovation through the complexities of the pharmaceutical industry, was crucial to putting Novo Nordisk on the map of companies forging new paradigms of inventive thinking. Through Ben’s leadership, mentoring and strategy skills, this innovation team now has a solid data-strategy foundation to grow upon. Ben was the essential piece to making this a reality.
Bhanu Prakash N.
Ben is wonderful to work with, and has exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching, motivation. He consistently demonstrated a solid work ethic at Infocepts a dedication to success. He is not only a reliable and forward thinking Account Manager but also an inspiring team player. He is a gifted negotiator with a rare combination of patience, spunk, and research skills. Ben already has the essential characteristics: smart and analytic, fast and responsive, intelligent risk-taking, and a real team player. His ideas are exceedingly creative and thought-provoking, and his implementation is always impressive. He is very calm under pressure and is always able to manage unforeseen events smoothly. He knows how to bring the best out of the members of his team, by inspiring and mentoring them. It was a pleasure to have learned some of these qualities and I am thankful for guiding me professionally and personally!
Experience
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Woodstream Corporation
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United States
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Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Director, Data & Analytics
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Dec 2021 - Present
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OnFrame, LLC
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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President
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Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
Executive and strategic consulting services that enable organizations to deliver higher ROI from their data and analytics investments, initiatives, and people. Our role is to bridge the gaps to establish a stronger alignment between the data and analytics road map and organizational strategy. And help you develop a culture that continuously ties data initiatives to tangible, quantifiable business outcomes. Executive and strategic consulting services that enable organizations to deliver higher ROI from their data and analytics investments, initiatives, and people. Our role is to bridge the gaps to establish a stronger alignment between the data and analytics road map and organizational strategy. And help you develop a culture that continuously ties data initiatives to tangible, quantifiable business outcomes.
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InfoCepts
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Vice President/Client Engagement Partner
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2010 - 2019
Brought in to anchor, manage and grow our U.S.-based consulting business, I played a large role growing us from ~140 employees to 850+ and being recognized as one of Gartner's Top 40 Global Analytics firms in 2018. Key to that success is identifying and developing strong leadership at all levels of our teams; cultivating a culture around strong relationships; staying ahead of the technology curve; always be innovating and understanding the “why” driving technology initiatives. Net result are teams that have built data enablement and analytics products/solutions worth over $1 billion, saved/mitigated more than $100 million and outperform our peers. Part of the Global Leadership team, I was a key contributor in defining our vision, shaping our strategy, driving diversity and championing our employees. Show less
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ImpactRx
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director, Business Intelligence
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2007 - 2010
ImpactRx develops custom analytics products and advisory services, based on data from a proprietary network of physicians, that is used by the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. I was hired to turn around the analytics team and the underused analytics platform - the quality was bad, tools were barely used, data literacy was low and self-service was rare. And I was successful. The analytics team and platform became the core asset for $30 million in research/advisory revenue annually. Our platform became the system of record and seen as the gold standard. We became more agile and delivered new analytic solutions to clients 20 times faster. Self-service and better analytics took off - exploding from 35,000 pieces of analysis performed each year to over 240,000 annually. Lastly, I renegotiated contracts to lower licensing/maintenance costs and dropped total cost of ownership by 82%. Show less
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Global Lead Management Consulting
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Assistant Vice President, Product Management
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2005 - 2007
Global Lead is a multi-national talent and market optimization firm, specializing in global diversity and inclusion, strategic consultation, education and training and cultural integration. A Goldman Sachs portfolio company, our clients were some of the most recognized brands in the world. Recruited by the managing partner, I established, led and grew a new line of business that built custom online training products and software solutions. In two years our products were being used by over 1,000,000 people at Fortune 1,000 companies worldwide. I reduced operational costs by 80%, managed global teams and was responsible for all aspects of product development. Show less
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Principal Consultant
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1999 - 2005
Wingspan designs, develops and delivers custom analytics, data enablement and software solutions for cutting edge companies. My role was a mix of lead architect, team lead and client manager. Designed and deployed custom, large-scale warehouses and analytics solutions built on over a billion records. Architected and developed a custom analytics product that brought in $20 million in revenue annually. And I was consistently one of the top billable consultants and revenue influencer, I personally billed for $1.5 million dollars and generated over $5 million in revenue overall. Show less
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Cofounder
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1996 - 1999
Part of a group of pathology informatics programmers, technologists and clinicians that formed a startup to provide technology consulting to help pathology departments and practices take advantage of Internet technologies and advanced clinical imaging techniques. This startup was not successful, but it was an amazing learning experience in entrepreneurship and what does not work in startups, young organizations/departments. Part of a group of pathology informatics programmers, technologists and clinicians that formed a startup to provide technology consulting to help pathology departments and practices take advantage of Internet technologies and advanced clinical imaging techniques. This startup was not successful, but it was an amazing learning experience in entrepreneurship and what does not work in startups, young organizations/departments.
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UPMC
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Systems Analyst
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1995 - 1999
Led and developed innovative technology solutions in Pathology Informatics in telepathology, clinical imaging, clinical information system management, systems administration, web application development, departmental support and R&D projects. Led and developed innovative technology solutions in Pathology Informatics in telepathology, clinical imaging, clinical information system management, systems administration, web application development, departmental support and R&D projects.
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Education
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Penn State University
BS, Business
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