Vice President of Strategic Technology at Capital One
Richmond, Virginia Area
- Current
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- Vice President, Strategic Technology at Capital One
- Past
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- Director of Engineering at AnVil
- Chief Scientist at Wheelhouse
- Director of Analytics at Xchange
- Senior Scientist at Dun & Bradstreet
- Senior Scientist at Thinking Machines
- Education
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- University of Michigan
- University of Michigan
- University of Illinois
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Kurt Thearling’s Summary
Executive with more than fifteen years of experience and leadership in analytics and data mining. Background includes work in a variety of areas, including financial services, life sciences, insurance, and telecommunications. I focus on delivering value at the intersection of analytic technology and business.
Outside of my current role at Capital One, I am an adjunct faculty member in the school of business at Virginia Commonwealth University. I am also on advisory boards for SAS (analytics), SPSS (analytics), and ActivePrime (data quality), and am co-author of the book "Building Data Mining Applications for CRM."
Kurt Thearling’s Specialties:
Analytics, data mining, statistical decision making, business intelligence, CRM, emerging technologies, technology innovation.
Kurt Thearling’s Experience
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Vice President, Strategic Technology
Capital One
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; COF; Financial Services industry)
2003 — Present (5 years)
Responsible for leading Capital One's advanced technology organization, with a focus on accelerating the use of new analytic technologies. Personally led the development of Capital One's corporate-wide analytic infrastructure plan, covering the full range of analytic processes: database platforms, statisticial modeling tools, process & work product governance, analyst collaboration & knowledge management, and production scoring environments.
Outside of analytics, I also lead efforts to identify, evaluate, and introduce high-value emerging technologies across the enterprise. Target areas include the internet, payments, banking, security & privacy, and collaboration. -
Director of Engineering
AnVil
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
Managed the technology organization (IT & software development) at AnVil, an in silico drug discovery company focused on the commercial analysis of biological and clinical datasets. Led the development of AnVil's data analysis platform technology (ADAPT), an award winning system of data management and mining tools used to automate the analysis of life science datasets.
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Chief Scientist
Wheelhouse
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
Led the R&D organization at Wheelhouse, a CRM technology and services company. As a member of the senior management team, I also performed numerous corporate duties including engaging clients, sales calls, setting strategy, public speaking, fundraising (including a $52M investment round), etc.
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Director of Analytics
Xchange
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 2000 (3 years)
Directed the integration of analytic applications (data mining, business intelligence, customer optimization, and visualization) into Xchange's suite of CRM software applications.
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Senior Scientist
Dun & Bradstreet
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Services industry)
1994 — 1997 (3 years)
Founded a corporate-wide resource in data mining and data analysis for the entire Dun & Bradstreet organization (30 companies). Working with the Pilot Software division of D&B, created the Pilot Discovery Server, one of the first data mining applications to tightly integrate with business intelligence and relational database technology.
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Senior Scientist
Thinking Machines
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
1990 — 1994 (4 years)
Created the Darwin data mining software application, one of the first commercial data mining software applications able to analyze extremely large databases (100 GB to 1 TB) using high-performance compute servers.
Kurt Thearling’s Education
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University of Michigan
BS, Electrical Engineering
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University of Michigan
BS, Computer Engineering
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University of Illinois
PhD, Electrical Engineering
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