The Gym Group was founded in 2008 and now has more than 200 gyms across the UK. Since re-opening post-COVID, our ambition has accelerated, and we’re completely focussed on the customer’s holistic health and fitness. The culture in The Gym Group is fantastic, and our ‘can-do’ attitude ensures we always do the right thing for our customers.
What this webinar is about.
Ascent’s Chief Data Scientist Rich Pugh & Premal Desai, Head of Data & AI at The Gym Group, got together to discuss the art and science of building a high-performance, empowered, inspired data team.What you’ll take away.
- How to define the most important data-led technology decisions
- Awareness of how to approach business strategy and the business questions you want the data to answer for you.
- Understanding where data transformations stops and technology transformation starts
- The importance of governance
- Top tips for managing stakeholder engagement and building high-functioning data teams
Your hosts & presenters.
Jason Micallef
Rich Pugh
Chief Data Scientist
Premal Desai
Head of Data & AI at The Gym Group
Commercial business leader with a passion for delivering great customer experiences using advanced data & analytics. Global Data & Analytics lead within $7bn Financial Technology business at Thomson Reuters. Created a data and analytics organisation to help technologists and software developers gain product and usage insights and design a better customer experience.
At present Premal nurtures and leads the Data & AI team at the Gym Group - a fast growing UK-based health & leisure business. Outside of his day job, Premal is a keen Angel / Seed investor and adviser for a number of startups.
