Practice Transition

YakData has Evolved.

Stephen McDaniel now operates exclusively in Buy-Side Revenue Diligence and Transaction Assurance for Private Equity and Private Credit.

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Notice — YakData is no longer accepting engagements for Business Intelligence, Dashboard Implementation, or Marketing Analytics. All operations are now consolidated under Forecast Integrity Partners (FIP).

Academic & Industry Record

Faculty & Lecturing

Princeton University Guest Lecturer — Advanced Donor Modeling

University of Chicago, Booth Guest Lecturer — School of Business

INFORMS (world's largest association of Operations Research) Faculty — Advanced Analytics & Forecasting

Brown University Guest Lecturer - Advanced Donor Modeling

University of Washington, Seattle Guest Lecturer — Data Science

Industry & Standard-Setting

Netflix Early architect of Subscriber LTV & Retention Frameworks

Tableau Software Invited Speaker & Instructor — World & European Conferences

American Marketing Association Faculty — Customer Lifetime Value Modeling

TDWI Faculty — Big Data & Analytics

Selected Precursor Mandates

Acquisition · $1B+

Global Pharmaceutical Top 50

Built the stochastic revenue simulation engine used by the Investment Committee to validate transaction valuation.

Institutional · Capital Markets

$10B+ European Alternative Asset Manager

Trained desk analysts on signal detection methodologies and quantitative data visualization for portfolio decisions.