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.
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.
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.
Rich Pugh
Chief Data Scientist
Ascent
As Chief Data Scientist at Ascent, Rich is passionate about delivering pragmatic advice to leading organisations on data-driven transformation and building successful data science teams.
With more than 20 years’ experience helping companies create value from data, Rich has worked across a variety of industries, helping businesses around the world increase profit margins, solve operational challenges and delight their customers.
Rich is a strong believer that there is nothing analytics can’t do and strives to help organisations leverage the power of their data.
