Our Team - Is Your Team
Our team, provides you, with some of the strongest analytic, marketing and real world business experience in the industry. We've not only studied it, tested it and implemented it...we've lived it, everyday, for more than 15 years.
We bring this, as your team, when we sit down with you, to understand your business, your needs and your goals.
Working together, we build YOUR solution!
Tom Salutz
Tom is one of our Managing Directors and brings a passionate and personal approach to your business and his relationship with you.
Tom has built numerous predictive models, analytic tools and database structures for our clients across a number of industries, including; direct response, financial services, manufacturing and telecommunications. Possessing an acute ability to apply leading edge tools, processes, theories and methodologies to tried and true practical experiences, Tom routinely leads our clients to profitable solutions for their business.
Tom can be reached via email at tsalutz@datacosolutions.com or, to talk to him directly, he is available everyday at 1-847-290-0636 X233
Education:
MBA Finance, DePaul University
BSE Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan
Gary Mayer
Gary is also one of our Managing Directors and brings to your business a unique combination of both retail and analytical experience.
Building data warehouses and marketing datamarts for some of the largest retailers in the United States, and combining that knowledge and experience with unprecedented financial evaluation tools and models, Gary provides our clients with a breadth and depth of combined expertise and experience not found in business today.
Having held senior management positions in marketing, finance and accounting at Fortune 100 companies, Gary also provides our clients with the guidance and support necessary to implement and manage "game changing" technologies and analytical tools.
Gary can be reached via email at gmayer@datacosolutions.com or, to talk to him directly, at 1-847-290-0636 X254
Education:
MBA Marketing, Northwestern University
MS Statistics, Marquette University
BS Math, Marquette University
Kathy Lambert
Kathy is our Director and brings a wealth of experience from a number of Fortune 100 companies in product development, systems integration and data driven, technology focused, sales and marketing strategy development.
As one of our team leaders, Kathy is extremely adept, at helping our clients "make sense" out of what can sometimes be large, unorganized and sometimes complex, data and business issues.
A true problem solver, Kathy will approach finding solutions to your issues by "sitting in your chair". We use this term to describe how Kathy will work with you, because it quite literally illustrates the personal involvement and commitment that Kathy will bring to you and your business.
Its no surprise, given this personal style, that Kathy is a "favorite" of many of our clients.
Kathy is always available to work with you and can be reached at 1-847-290-0636 X229 or feel free to drop her a note at klambert@datacosolutions.com.
Education:
MBA Marketing, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
BS Business Administration, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Tom Koeppen
Tom is our Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing Strategy and can provide to you and your business his almost 25 years of experience developing and managing customer interactions for a number of Fortune 100 companies.
Another of our team leaders, Tom places customers and consumers as the number one priority and asset of the businesses, marketing strategies and sales and marketing programs he and his team are managing for our clients.
As a true marketing strategist, Tom will bring to you and your business an analytical and "out of the box" creative skill set, that will ensure your business has fully integrated and optimized, business development, customer management, product development, and customer experience enhancement to capture and delight the needs of your customers and consumers.
Tom always loves to talk marketing, consumers and the next "pet rock"!
Give Tom a call at 1-847-290-0636 X228 or email him directly at tkoeppen@datacosolutions.com
Education:
MBA Marketing, Keller Graduate School of Management, Chicago
BS Marketing, Northern Illinois University
Kara Parde
Kara is our Senior Relationship Manager and as the title states, is our most senior and respected Client Relationship Manager.
Having managed both our largest and most complex client relationships, Kara will bring to your relationship with us, a wealth of experience and knowledge in navigating all of the "moving parts" to reach quick and profitable solutions to your business issues.
With her real world experiences in the Financial Services industry, ranging from consumer banking services related to card acquisition, retention and attrition marketing to coordination of systems and database for marketing program tracking and profitability, when Kara works with you, its like tapping into a entire team of business experts.
Kara can be reached via email at kparde@datacosolutions.com
Education:
BA Business Administration & Communications, Doane College
Lee Baker
Lee is one of our lead statisticians and most senior business and data analysts.
Bringing Lee to work on your project, brings more than 16 years of statistical and analytical knowledge from working with and for Fortune 100 companies in the financial services, telecommunications and publishing industries to your business.
As our lead statistician and modeler, Lee is unique in his approach of collaborate, understand and then collaborate some more. This unique approach requires more than just providing lead with data and or some data files, but getting the data to provide the best solution, has to be done through cooperation and collaboration with you our customer.
Lee's unique approach delivers for you, just ask some of our clients about Lee's ability to turn complex, impenetrable data into useful insights.
Or give Lee a call yourself, he is at 847-290-0636 X257 or email him at lbaker@datacosolutions.com
Education:
MS Applied Statistics, DePaul University
BS Mathematics, Iowa State University
Marissa Weil
Marissa is our resident computer and systems expert.
When Marissa works on your behalf she is bringing to you and your business, not only a wealth of systems design, programming and technical acumen, but also practical business experience and understanding of how a technical solution is supposed to work, to support your business objectives.
Marissa is involved at every level of your business solution project. Because Marissa has experience across many industries, including; financial services, retail, direct response, healthcare systems and services and telecommunications, she brings a very wide and deep understanding of how solutions work within a specific business model. In fact, if Marissa says, I don't think that is going to work... we've learned, its best to listen.
Marissa's blend of real world experience, technical expertise and straight forward assessment of potential solutions and final solutions, means you as our client, are getting a unique perspective that in the end, gets the job done and done right!
Marissa is available for real world assessments, or for your computer questions (she loves that stuff!) at 847-290-0636 ext. 234 or email her at mweil@datacosolutions.com
Education:
Computer Programming, DePaul University
BA History, University of Wisconsin
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