Former P&G IT chief joins Fractal Analytics as strategic advisor

Published By : MarketWatch

Jersey City, New Jersey (November 29, 2016) 

Fractal Analytics (www.fractal.ai), one of the largest pure play providers of analytics, today announced that Andy Walter, former Vice President, Global Commercial Services of The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), has joined them as a strategic advisor.

“We are very excited to have Andy join us. Andy’s experience in the Consumer Goods and Retail space and his expertise in scaling solutions by combining analytics & IT will be invaluable to our clients as they improve decision making through data and analytics,” said, Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO, Fractal Analytics.

Over the course of his 26-year career at P&G, Walter has built up deep expertise in the integration of emerging and core technologies, supply chain management, sales and marketing and consumer and business analytics. In his most recent assignment, he oversaw more than 1,500 IT, analytics, and other professionals.

“I am delighted to join Fractal and look forward to working with the team who has been creating value by institutionalizing analytics at some of the most loved Fortune 500 consumer brands,” said Andy Walter.

Walter also has more than 15 years’ experience working on boards and in board level advisory roles. He is currently on the board at Digimarc Corporation and Virtualitics LLC. He has previously served on the GS1 US Board of Governors including as Chair for their technology committee and is a trustee and treasurer of the non-profit Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Greater Cincinnati.

Prior to joining P&G as an IT manager in 1990, Walter worked for Monsanto Co. from 1988-90. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Cincinnati in 1992.

About Fractal Analytics

Fractal Analytics is a strategic analytics partner to the most admired Fortune 500 companies globally and helps them power every human decision in the enterprise by bringing analytics and AI to the decision.

Fractal Analytics has more than 1000 people across 12 global locations including the United States, UK and India and has been named a “Cool Vendor in Analytics” and a “Vendor to watch” by Gartner. Fractal is privately held and has investors including Khazanah, who invested $100 million in 2016 and TA Associates, who invested $25 million in 2013.