Paul Ferrell

Angel Investor, Advisor, Board Member/Observer, Venture Scout, and Consultant.
2015
* Angel Investor in portfolio of 10+ investments within SaaS and Fintech verticals including 2 startups now valued well over $1B. * Invested prior to or alongside Benchmark, Accel, a16z, Coatue, and other top venture capital firms. * Advisor (paid in equity) and board member or observer at select investments. * Venture Scout for Emergence Capital and General Partner at MPF VI. * Consulting for companies building out new data teams or choosing analytics software vendors. * Consulting for hedge funds and private equity firms investing in data companies.

2021 - 2023

Senior Director, Analytics and Data Science
2021 - 2023
* Built and led 18-person data department spanning 5 teams: Data Engineering, Product Analytics, Business Analytics, Clinical Analytics, and Data Science. * Led development of Modern Health’s AI models including machine learning models for clinical triage, therapist member matching, coach member matching, digital content recommendation, and customer pricing. * Managed $xxxk in external software vendor budget to build modern data platform powering the modern health app, our AI and machine learning models, and internal and external analytics, including the customer portal. * Supported all company functions with data, including all customers via the customer success team and data driven sales efforts such as ROI analysis, resulting in xxx% year over year growth for 2 years to $xxxM ARR. * Provided due diligence materials for Series D and beyond funding rounds, raising ~$xxxM at >$1B valuation.

2018 - 2021

Senior Manager, Analytics
2020 - 2021
Empower marketers with data to execute efficient and high performance campaigns including targeted product launches such as The New Dropbox. Measure the impact of these campaigns. Consult with executives to set strategy, providing meaningful insights that enable their teams to meet Dropbox's ambitious company goals. Report results to the C-Suite via the Marketing Scorecard, holding leaders to a rigorous standard in meeting their metrics.
Manager, Analytics
2018 - 2020
Hire and lead an experienced team of Analytics Managers who use data science, data engineering, and data visualization to provide comprehensive analytics for Product Marketing, Global Sales and Channel, Customer Strategy and Insights, and more.

2016 - 2018

Analytics Lead
2016 - 2018
Comprehensive executive and board level reporting, plus data science and data engineering to drive strategic business initiatives such as (1) sales and marketing machine built with data from end to end, MCL to closed won and renewal (lead scoring, SLA measurement as basis for sales comp, sales/marketing attribution, full-funnel analytics unifying product, sales, and marketing interactions, and much more) (2) Customer Health Classifier using machine learning to predict and flag customers at risk of churn with 70% accuracy 6 months prior to annual renewal.

2015 - 2016

Investment Associate
2015 - 2016
Seed and Series A venture capital focused on enterprise IT software companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially SaaS and cloud infrastructure. Sourcing of leads and due diligence for investments including Survata and Chubbies. Judged startup competitions like the BASES challenge, Verizon Powerful Answers, and Startup Chile.

2012 - 2012

Summer Financial Analyst
2012 - 2012
Top performing seven-person team managing ~$6B. Custom portfolios and pitch books, quarterly reviews, financial advice, and analysis for clients including well known entrepreneurs, CEOs, and cabinet level government officials. Received full time offer at summer end but declined in favor of graduate school at Stanford.

2009 - 2009

Intern
2009 - 2009
First White House summer internship class for President Obama. Public facing responses to written and telephone communications and research supporting acquisition of CRM software package.

Head of Data