V Kishore Ayyadevara currently leads retail analytics consulting in a start-up. He received his MBA from IIM Calcutta. Following that, he worked for American Express in risk management and in Amazon's supply chain analytics teams. He is passionate about leveraging data to make informed decisions - faster and more accurately. Kishore's interests include identifying business problems that can be solved using data, simplifying the complexity within data science and applying data science to achieve quantifiable business results.