Calvin Dudek

Public is a Venture Capital firm that helps startups transform the public sector. Adviser to the founders, Daniel Korski, ex-deputy head of the No.10 policy unit and venture investor, Alexander de Carvalho. Led technical due diligence as well as the deployment of the technology and analytics infrastructure. Helped shaping the GovStart programme that helps startups to get ready for the public sector, and help them through the sales cycle.

Led the data science innovation team at DWP Digital. Challenged the status quo and developed new digital products and customer journeys. My programs included but were not limited to conversational agents (chatbots) and voice-interfaces, A.I. supported knowledge management systems, predictive modelling and fraud detection. 

Led the development of the product and core technology behinds Faction's paid social advertising solution. Managed the development and integration of the machine learning and data pipeline using Apache Spark. Funded by Entrepreneur First, Europe’s leading start-up accelerator. 

Development new algorithm for lookalike audience targeting in my dissertation: "Response prediction in behavioural targeted display advertising with latent semantic user segmentation".

Led the commercialisation strategy for emerging products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Partnered with product, engineering and sales teams to identify trends, seize opportunities and continuously deliver product updates. Specified requirements and developed prototypes including leading-edge data applications to drive business growth.

Google 20% Project Work – Managed the Google Campus Mentoring program as well as redesigned the internal and external processes for recruiting Mentee and Mentor.

Analytically evaluated volumes, growth rates and return-on-investment characteristics of international strategies under detailed consideration of competitive dynamics, shifts in user behaviours, economic indicators and statistical forecasting models.

Went through various departments and roles including product management, sales, marketing, customer operations and strategy.

Executive education course about how to operate private equity and venture capital companies.

Computer science program covering mathematics, statistics, machine intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, cloud computing, security as well as graph and social network analysis.

Computer science program covering various business modules, database modelling, software engineering, managing software projects and enterprise information systems.