Hello, I'm a Data & AI Product Leader.
For companies that want to win with data and AI, I develop value-creating analytical solutions and scalable data and AI products by harnessing a diverse background across business, data, product and technology.
I Lead With Three Principals
For a company to win in their market, they must first have a data & AI strategy that is aligned to their business strategy and that is focused on value creation. Especially for growth strategies, value is most achieved when scaled with owned technology platforms or partner digital channels. As data touches everything, success can only be achieved through collaboration and alignments.
Focus on Value Creation
I help companies develop a combination of ‘offensive’ and ‘defensive’ data strategies. This translates to sales and marketing functions empowered by analytics, support streamlined with AI, data products optimizing user experiences and conversions. By prioritization is key for focus and return on investments for all stakeholders involved.
Scale with Technology
I bring an industry-leading view on Data Products, such as AI Assistants and Agents, Personalization and Recommendation engines that can be embedded in owned or partner platforms. Furthermore, I believe in investing in scalable data system architectures to balance democratization and innovation
Execute by Collaborating
Data presents power, and often projects fail due to political fights over that power. I focus on bringing a One Team, One Dream collaborative culture to everything we do, and bias towards building self-service data platforms and support with a broad data literacy program enabling everyone to become data heroes.
Luiz Gondim
VP & CIO LATAM, Johnson & Johnson
“Richard is the best hire I made as a Technology Executive. He's a strategic thinker on business value, extremely effective at communications and organizational change, and deeply technical to lead global data experts at implementing large-scale solutions.”

I Will Help You Win with Data & AI
For companies that are transforming and evolving their technical and digital capabilities, I bring a unique combined understanding of strategic analytics, digital data products and leadership. Currently I’m a AI Product Manager at Dayforce (NYSE: DAY), a global HCM leader. Here, I’m building our AI Assistant, Agents and Agent Platform. Since joining, I’ve shipped AI Assistant Mobile, Pay Agents, Reports and Document Search resulting in above-forecast revenue impact.
Currently, I’m establishing AI Agents interoperability and company’s first external agent integration while developing roadmap through discovery with customer and partner research.
Read more here:
– https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-introduces-new-dayforce-ai-agents-to-accelerate-how-work-gets-done
– https://www.dayforce.com/who-we-are/newsroom/dayforce-expands-collaboration-with-microsoft-to-transform-hcm-workflows-with-ai
Prior, AB InBev has been able to leverage my skills to develop a data analytics-driven global FinTech ecosystem. My team led the efforts to develop an Algorithmic Credit Engine that has driven higher sales while reducing bad debt across multiple markets. We also developed Credit Management tools by developing visualizations and interpretable models used by Finance leaders.
As a result, just one year after joining AB InBev, I was promoted to global head of data analytics, now managing a global team of 30+ across data engineering, science, analytics and other data talents. I was also awarded the prestigious Partner designation by AB InBev.
Career Path
- 2024-Now Data & AI Product Leader
- 2020-2024 Data Analytics Executive at AB InBev and Verizon
- 2018-2020- Startup & Digital Ventures Building Data Products
- 2012-2018 Strategy & Finance Analytics
- 2007-2010 - SAP Business Intelligence and Data Science Consultant
Awards
- 2022 - Named AB InBev Partner
- 2018 - NYU $300K Challenge Finalist
- 2009 - SAP Service & Excellence & Winner Circle Award (top 1%)

Helen Wanamaker
Former Marketing Executive, TE Connectivity
“Richard created the vision for a Predictive Analytics Sales tool and partnered with Marketing and Sales to bring the product to life. He worked tirelessly with IT and Data Science and generated $1M incremental revenue in the first year of launch.”
In Summary
I am a Data & AI product leader focused on value creation and have deep technical knowledge on how to architect for scale and proven ability to affect change in organizations of any size through collaboration and an entrepreneurial spirit
$20M+
Value Created
$6M+
Budget Responsibility
30+
Data & AI Products
17 years
Data & AI Experience