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Jaafar Saadani

Founder & Principal

Datasquad

Biography

Jaafar Saadani is a Business Analytics leader with 10+ years of experience in Tech and Investment banking. He is currently the Founder of Datasquad, an agile analytics consulting firm helping ambitious organizations implement modern data strategies and enabling them to turn data into business value.

Prior to founding Datasquad, Jaafar was leading the Analytics & Insights team at Uber, spanning all of Uber’s customer operations for Rides, Eats, Freight and Jump in EMEA (4 products, 40+ countries).

Jaafar’s expertise lies in his ability to understand strategic business challenges and translate them into analytics solutions.

Interests

  • Data Analytics
  • Business Strategy

Education

  • Master in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010

    Institut Superieur d'Electronique de Paris

  • Master in Management, 2010

    Audencia Business School

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Founder & Principal

Datasquad

Nov 2020 – Present Amsterdam
Datasquad is an agile analytics consultancy. We help ambitious organizations implement modern data strategies and enable them to turn data into business value
 
 
 
 
 

Head of Analytics & Insights, Customer Strategy & Operations

Uber

Sep 2018 – Oct 2020 Amsterdam
  • Developed and structured a central team of data analysts spanning all of Uber’s customer support operations for Rides, Eats, Freight and Jump in EMEA (4 products, 40+ countries, 20+ languages)
  • Brought together central and regional data analysts to harness their collective capabilities by aligning roadmaps, sharing best practices and streamlining analytics across EMEA (11+ Data Analysts)
  • Worked closely with senior stakeholders and executives to communicate actionable insights and ensure data requests to the team are prioritized and supported as needed
  • Unlocked cost saving opportunities by improving capacity planning using advanced forecasting techniques and increased agent occupancy using real-time analytics
  • Created a scalable data strategy (data model, data visualization and insights) for Customer Support Operations that has been adopted worldwide
 
 
 
 
 

Data Science & Analytics Manager, Large Advertisers, Benelux & Nordics

Criteo

May 2014 – Aug 2018 Amsterdam
  • Built and managed a skilled and diverse team of data analysts to support business growth in 6 countries by transforming big data into actionable insights
  • Provided best-in-class solutions and recommendations to our internal and external clients by driving analytical expertise, nurturing creativity and building strategic insights on our technology and products
  • Developed innovative proof of concept solutions that meet evolving client needs
  • Advised senior stakeholders and steered the analytics strategy in Northern Europe
 
 
 
 
 

Consultant, Credit Derivatives, Market Activity Monitoring

Natixis

Jun 2011 – May 2013 Paris
  • Audited and Optimized daily risk monitoring processes
  • Analyzed market risk metrics and Developed stress tests scenarios
 
 
 
 
 

Sales intern, Foreign Exchange Derivatives, Investor and Corporate desks

Citigroup

Nov 2010 – May 2011 Paris
  • Dealt Foreign Exchange products with Corporate Treasurers and Asset Managers
  • Analyzed Fundamentals and Technicals and Produced daily economic updates
 
 
 
 
 

Sales intern, Interest Rates Derivatives, Public sector desk

SG CIB

Jul 2009 – Dec 2009 Paris
  • Provided Financial Directors of local authorities with tailor-made capital raising solutions (from 1 to €100M) along with interest rate hedging

Tech skills

Data Science & web development

Python | Pandas

SQL | Spark

Tableau | Plotly

Scikit-learn | Keras

Google Cloud Platform

Django | Bootsrap

Accomplish­ments

Online certificates

Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP Specialization

Coursera (Google Cloud) Apr 2020
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Structuring Machine Learning projects

Coursera (deeplearning.ai) Jun 2018
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Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

Coursera (deeplearning.ai) May 2018
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Coursera (deeplearning.ai) May 2018
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Foundations of marketing analytics

Coursera (ESSEC Business School) Mar 2016
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Foundations of strategic business analytics

Coursera (ESSEC Business School) Feb 2016
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Machine Learning

Coursera (Stanford University) Aug 2013
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Projects

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AI for good

COVID-19 Vaccine Targets Prediction

Search Engine

Search Engine for Online Data Science courses

Public speaking

Smart Audience: A new way to re-engage lapsed customers

A new Commerce Marketing Solution that could make the process of re-engaging lapsed customers, easier and smarter, for Criteo advertisers
Dec 11, 2017 2:00 PM Paris