TEAM
Kari Lepage
Founder and Principal
Kari is a retail industry expert with over 25 years of experience in both retail consulting and executive level operational roles. She has extensive experience across multiple disciplines and organization types. With a focus on driving value through customer insights and analytics, she is well versed in branding, merchandising, strategy, marketing and customer databases. Kari’s wide breadth of experience has provided her with an execution based strategic approach, balancing analytics with creative insights to formulate cohesive strategies and drive results. She has her MBA from NYU Stern School and her BA in Economics from Rutgers University.
Melanie Sy Haller
Principal
Melanie is a marketing executive with over 20 years of experience. She brings a combination of retail and consulting expertise, and has led customer engagement in several global lifestyle brands. She is a pioneer of new programs that focus on incremental value through customer focus and technology applications. Utilizing customer analytics and market insights, Melanie is adept in supporting brands through marketing effectiveness, customer acquisition, loyalty programs and multi-channel effectiveness. She has her MBA from Columbia Business School, CT from Sorbonne University and BA from Wesleyan University.
Darren Goldner
Data Scientist
With over 15 years of experience, Darren has emerged as a data science, analytics and technology leader. He has worked both directly within the retail industry and as a consultant. He has developed basket and customer analytics application suites including product and behavior Bayesian affinity modeling, k-means RFM clustering, optimization models and recommendation engines. He specializes in deploying scalable, reusable analytics applications, integrating big data analytics with legacy operations and establishing analytical Centers of Excellence (COE’s). He has a degree in Computational Biology from Cornell University and has contributed graduate research at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.