Avinash Kaushik

Avinash Kaushik is the global Chief Strategy Officer of Croud, a leading full-service marketing agency. His prior professional experience includes a sixteen-year stint at Google and roles at Intuit, DirecTV, Silicon Graphics in the US & DHL in Saudi Arabia.

Through his newsletter, The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect, blog, Occam's Razor, and his best-selling books, "Web Analytics: An Hour A Day" and "Web Analytics 2.0," Kaushik has become recognized as an authoritative voice on how marketers, executives teams and industry leaders can leverage data to fundamentally reinvent their digital existence.

Kaushik puts a common-sense framework around the often frenetic world of web analytics and combines that with the philosophy that investing in talented analysts is the key to long-term success. He passionately advocates customer centricity and leveraging bleeding-edge competitive intelligence techniques.

Kaushik has received rave reviews for bringing his energetic, inspiring, and practical insights to companies like Unilever, Dell, Time Warner, Vanguard, Porsche, and IBM. He has delivered keynotes at a variety of global conferences, including Ad-Tech, Monaco Media Forum, Search Engine Strategies, JMP Innovators' Summit, The Art of Marketing, and Web 2.0.

Acting on his passion for teaching, Kaushik has lectured at major universities such as Stanford University, the University of Virginia, the University of California—Los Angeles, and the University of Utah.

Kaushik has received awards from the American Statistical Association, the Web Analytics Association, and Google, including Statistical Advocate of the Year and Most Influential Industry Contributor.