Dr. Christopher Dillon

Defined and built the data strategy, infrastructure, and team for a group of 18 businesses. Co-founded the Global Finance and Data Analytics Department — owning the full stack from data warehousing and ETL through to executive dashboards and advanced analytics.

• Impact: Increased OTIF by 25%, identified millions in excess & obsolete inventory, detected ~1% of revenue in out-of-stock sales loss
• Team Leadership: Built and lead a team of PhD-level data scientists and engineers, supporting senior leadership across the group
• Full-Stack Data: Delivered centralised global reporting and Streamlit dashboards (with Entra SSO), replacing fragmented legacy systems with a universal architecture
• KPI Strategy: Designed EOS Level 10 executive scorecard aligning KPIs with operational priorities
• Advanced Analytics: Customer segmentation, margin optimisation, and strategic growth initiatives
• AI-Assisted Development: Leveraging Claude Code to accelerate delivery of data products and pipelines

Built the data function from scratch for 5 European businesses across tattoo, beauty, and pet grooming supply. Consolidated fragmented data sources into a unified data warehouse, enabling consistent automated reporting across all entities. Promoted to Global Lead Data Scientist based on this work.

Established the Data Science function from scratch at one of the world's largest pet-grooming supply companies. Created unified reporting across Christies and sister company Transgroom. Promoted to European Data Scientist as the business was acquired into Nexus Brands Group.

Joint venture with Randox Laboratories developing statistical techniques for astrophysical and biomedical analysis. Developed algorithms for large-scale statistical analysis of below-noise-floor signals, leading to novel discoveries of stellar nanoflares. Created image feature recognition software achieving 98.8% reduction in processing times (saving 600+ seconds), key component of biochip diagnostics pipeline in $12B industry.

Seagate bursary recipient. Head of peer mentor scheme.