Advisor to Fortune 1000 organizations on data and AI leadership for nearly 4 decades.

Randy Bean is a Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, CEO, Innovation Fellow, and Board Member. He is the bestselling author of Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI, and a regular contributor to Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review.  Randy was a former contributor to The Wall Street Journal and has been referenced and quoted on AI leadership in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist.

 Randy was previously founder and CEO of NewVantage Partners (NVP), a data and AI leadership advisory firm to Fortune 1000 clients, which he founded in 2001. NVP was acquired by Paris-based global consultancy Wavestone in 2021, where he served as Innovation Fellow until January 2024. He is a frequent industry keynote and panel moderator on the topic of data and AI leadership.