Smith School of Business At Queen's University

As part of the program advisory board, I work with my fellow board members to ensure that the program is delivering learning that is current, up to date, and relevant to current business needs. Our board provides support and advice to other academic programs, assists in the development of additional content and identifies best practice standards.  We serve as ambassadors to the programs, providing a connection while facilitating the exchange of information and ideas with industry peers and multiple global bluechip companies. 
   
☛ SPECIALTIES: 
Analytics | Leadership | Strategy Executive | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | AI | Digital Supply Chain | MBA | Speaker | Loyalty Program Specialist | Motivational Business Speaker | Future Technology Advocate & Speaker | Digital | Research | Speaker | Keynote Speaker

Advisory Board - Master of Management Analytics & Master of Management Artificial Intelligence

International Institute for Analytics

The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) is the authority on analytics maturity and best practices. Co-founded by Tom Davenport and CEO Jack Phillips, IIA works across a breadth of industries to uncover actionable insights from its network of analytics practitioners, industry experts and faculty.  IIA are the leading source of expertise for companies making the transition to data-driven decision-making and advanced analytics, offering four unbiased, client-oriented services designed to help organizations across the entire analytics lifecycle from ideation, through strategy and planning to operationalization.

IIA's Research and Advisory Network provides clients with access to the largest network of independent analytics expertise, allowing them to apply real practitioner insights against initiatives, projects and problems.

As a Senior Executive and Advisory Associate, I help companies and organizations in North America and Europe improve their bottom-line, building analytic presence, creating pricing, and analytic models through insights and recommendations which support decision making by integrating primary and secondary research and analysis, using multiple data sources and relevant proven methodologies. 

Through planning, analytics research, evaluation and data strategy, I assist in the creation and implementation of yearly strategic plans.  Build and sustain Business Improvement (SBI) and programs, including creating a new performance management strategy for optimum results. 

My goal is to be a trusted partner and to mentor and modernize the overall analytic environment, based on my evaluation of the client's business and technical requirements.  


☛ SPECIALTIES:
Analytics | Leadership | Strategy Executive | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | AI | Digital Supply Chain | MBA | Speaker | Loyalty Program Specialist | Motivational Business Speaker | Future Technology Advocate & Speaker | Digital | Data Science | AML  | Speaker | Keynote Speaker

Faculty & Advisory 

Loblaw Companies Limited

☛ Head of Enterprise Business Information Competency Centre (BICC) @Loblaw,  Canada's largest retail company:

Responsible for enabling revenue growth, operational efficiency & risk avoidance through data innovation, data strategy, data monetization, data governance.

☛ Scope included: Customer Loyalty & Analytics, Digital Channels, Pharmacy & Healthcare, Retail Product & HR data.

Analytics Lead COE, analytics strategy, and drove culture change, executive alignment and adoption, and key technology investments.

☛ Led the creation and development of the inaugural Loblaw Analytics Certificate program, in partnership with Queens University Analytics- to-date, 70+ Loblaw colleagues have completed the program.

☛ SPECIALTIES:
Analytics | Leadership | Strategy Executive | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | AI | Digital Supply Chain | MBA | Speaker | Loyalty Program Specialist | Motivational Business Speaker | Future Technology Advocate & Speaker | Digital | Supply Chain / FP&A | Speaker | Keynote Speaker

Senior Director Finance, Enterprise Business Information Competency Centre  & Loyalty

☛ Led the financial reporting, planning and analysis function for the $1B+ Loblaw Distribution and Supply Chain business

Led the creation of 5-year Financial Plan ensuring division alignment and supported the strategic plan including conducting sensitivity analyses to determine impact of changes to underlying assumptions on annual and strategic plan.

☛ Successful collaboration with Senior Operators across 20+ distribution sites for Warehouse, Transportation, and Replenishment – including external third-party providers.

Presented financial results and forecasts to Senior Management.

☛ Lead the FP&A team in providing financial support of the Total Supply Chain business through detailed, insightful commentary on financial results and forecasts; ensuring the Operations teams and Senior Management are connected to the financial processes and the division's financial performance; achievement of consistent 2-3% forecast accuracy rate.

☛Managed the long-range planning process for the Supply Chain business.

Standardized the financial reporting and forecasting process across the network; resulting in efficiencies with various financial and analytical processes.

Financial lead for network transition projects.

☛ SPECIALTIES:
Analytics | Leadership | Strategy Executive | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | AI | Digital Supply Chain | MBA | Speaker | Loyalty Program Specialist | Motivational Business Speaker | Future Technology Advocate & Speaker | Digital | Supply Chain / FP&A | Speaker | Keynote Speaker

Senior Director FP&A, Supply Chain, Central Analytics, Loblaw Digtial, Customs

Support colleague engagement and development.
 
☛ Consistently achieved team engagement survey scores well above the business’ national average.

Providing members with opportunities and exposure to areas within Supply Chain that are outside their normal scope of duties.

☛ Maintain a strong relationship with all team members, through open and honest communication based on mutual respect.

Several mentoring relationships within the organization; succession planning.

Director,  Financial Planning & Analysis, Supply Chain, E-Commerce, TMS 

Supply Chain Management Inc. (a Division of DHL/Exel)

Exel is a North America 3PL leader, providing customer-focused supply chain solutions, resources and expertise. With a range of solutions that include: consulting, design, integrated information management, e-commerce support, and warehousing and distribution services. With more than 40,000 associates, 80 million square feet of warehouse space and annual revenue of over $4.5 billion, Exel is delivering value across the supply chain for several of the world’s largest and well-known brands

Senior Manager Financial Planning & Analysis

FANUC Robotics

FANUC America Corporation provides the most complete range of industrial automation equipment including robots, CNCs and motion control systems. FANUC’s innovative technologies and proven expertise help manufacturers in the Americas maximize efficiency, reliability and profitability. Markets served include: Aerospace, Agriculture, Assembly, Automation, Automotive, Construction, Education, Energy, Fabricating, Food, General Motion Control, Machine Tool, Material Handling, Material Removal, Medical, Metal Fabrication, Metalforming, Mold & Die and Woodworking.

Advisor

#1 Most Followed Voice in AI Business (1.5M) | Leading AI Entrepreneur & Advisor | Former Amazon, IBM | LinkedIn Top Voice | @alliekmiller on Instagram, X, TikTok

AI isn’t magic. It’s method.

Most executives don’t need more AI hype.
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I'm Achille Ettorre.
TEDx speaker. Advisor to C-suite leaders.
Author of The Digital Advantage.

I help senior leaders turn AI into ROI.
Not dashboards. Not prototypes.
Actual outcomes.

Where it started:
I scaled a gritty equipment rental company into a process-driven, tech-enabled business.
It taught me how transformation really works — from the inside out.

That experience grounds my approach today:
From back office to boardroom, I’ve helped Fortune 500s, retailers, universities, and governments design AI and data strategies that get traction — not just talk.

What I believe:
AI doesn’t fix broken processes. It exposes them.

Clean data beats big data.

Strategic alignment always outperforms automation.

How I help decision-makers:
✅ Keynotes on AI, analytics & transformation

✅ Board-level advisory & AI audits

✅ Workshops for C-suites and senior teams

✅ Custom training based on The Digital Advantage

Who I’ve worked with:
Clients include DHL, Walmart, Loblaw, top grad schools, and multiple government agencies.
I sit on advisory boards, speak globally, and collaborate with forward-thinking execs building the future — not chasing trends.

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→ A CEO, COO, or VP ready to deploy AI for real results
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Achille Ettorre, MBA

University of Pennsylvania

- Develop and deliver courses based on Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLM 's) to graduate students, faculty, and staff.
- Recommend both new and revised curricula on incorporating other aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to those same groups.
- Provide best practices for learning Artificial Intelligence.

Senior AI Curriculum Advisor 

- Developed curriculum for and teach classes on Artificial Intelligence. 
- Deliver to Graduate School of Education.
- Recruited expert guest lecturer on Generative AI for AI.
- Mentored and consulted students on the use of Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence Co-Instructor

The Wharton School

- Provide research direction and mentorship to MBA and undergraduate students.
- Offer peer counseling to fellow graduate students.
- Draft strategy options for review by AI Accountability Institute.

#AI Research Mentor & Peer Advocate

Gartner

Advises clients in strategic challenges with Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Decision Sciences.  Specializes in areas such as:

- AI Talent/ AI Organization
- Upskilling AI Staff/ AI Literacy
- AI Strategy
- AI Ethics/ Responsible AI
- Measuring AI success
- Maximizing AI profitability
- Model ensembles
- Project management
- Simplifying operations
- Feature engineering
- Data storytelling 
- Working with stakeholders

Director, Data & Analytics/ AI Expert

Analytics-Edge, LLC

•	Created Data Science/ AI curriculum for Cisco Networking Academy: 3.1 million current students, 190 countries, and 6 languages.
•	Developed and delivered the first Data Science curriculum for all of 3M Asia.
•	Created the first Artificial Intelligence course for Harvard Innovation Labs' Experfy spin-off.
•	Provided consulting and training for clients like AARP, Biogen Pharmaceuticals, IBM, Los Angeles Times, Royal Bank of Canada, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, T. Rowe Price, and Wells Fargo.

VP- Artificial Intelligence Educator

Booz Allen Hamilton

•	Founded the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Lab (formally Emerging Technologies AI team)
•	Increased VBA Fraud Model Performance by 500% in 8 weeks
•	Lifted sales forecasting model accuracy from 85% to over 91%
•	Raised chatbot satisfaction levels from 27% to over 70%
•	Developed firmwide Introduction to AI training for 10K employees with a 98% approval rate

Lead Artificial Intelligence Solutions Architect

Legg Mason (Acquired by Franklin Templeton)

•	Provided 440% lift in product Cross-Sell performance with breakthrough AI model using champion/ challenger Model Risk Management platform.
•	Slashed Feature Engineering timelines by 80% with CN2 rule induction methodology.
•	Built and tested almost 300 production-ready models using Python, TensorFlow, SageMaker, and various AWS/ pipelines and processes.
•	Designed, authored, and implemented Artificial Intelligence Roadmap for Legg Mason, creating of Strategic Artificial Intelligence Labs.
•	Benchmarked AUM performance, revenue growth, and product performance over 800 separate data elements.
•	Trained over 150 Legg Mason employees on AI methodology across 3 continents.

Lead Data Scientist

Morgan Stanley

•	Designed, created, and implemented a fraud detection model that captured 40% of all fraud within a 2% turndown threshold, outperforming a custom model created by a third-party consulting firm of experts.
•	Developed and executed custom data science training programs for a team of 12 Morgan Stanley employees across two continents.
•	Trained 25 professionals on 2 continents in Machine Learning/ Artificial Intelligence.
•	Implemented custom Python tool to automate Exploratory Data Analysis for all future modeling efforts.
•	Managed a junior executive to become a full Data Scientist in under four months.
•	Wrote and executed Request for Proposal for Anomaly Detection for a $40 billion book of business.

Vice President of Data Science

Various roles 

•	Wide variety of predictive analytics assignments for over 25 clients, including developing almost 100 predictive models for industries such as banking, cellular, healthcare, hospitality, and non-profits.
•	Saved St. Jude Children's Research Hospital approximately 45% on mailing costs using an advanced modeling ensemble approach of an initial filter model, a secondary response model, and a final donation model.
•	Raised Sheraton Hotels’ response rates by more than 50% for destination promotions using advanced analytics to predict direct mail conversion.
•	Built web-based fraud detection models with sub-second decisioning for PayPal, evaluating up to 1 million purchases per day.
•	Created and deployed a unique Customer Analysis Protocol for Alltel Cellular’s marketing division, allowing immediate data mining “triage” for the entire marketing staff. 
•	Chief Data Scientist, Analytics-Edge, 2000 – 2021
•	VP Consumer Lending, Bank of Hawaii, staff of 7, 1997 - 1999
•	VP Credit Cards, CoreStates Bank, $7.8 million budget, staff of 4, 1995 – 1997
•	VP Credit Card Acquisition, Citicorp, Service Excellence Award, 1986 - 1995

Contract Consulting: Vice President of Analytics/ Data Science

81k | Director, Data & Analytics/ AI @ Gartner

#AI pioneer since 1986, currently working with University of Pennsylvania while studying at Harvard GSE. 🥳

Working to make #ArtificialIntelligence friendlier and more ethical!

Provided ROI results for, among others:

- Audi
- Biogen
- Cisco
- Los Angeles Times
- Mercedes
- Morgan Stanley
- Yale University

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