Ignasi Puig de Dou

After 22 years working in the Corporate world (Accenture and Hewlett-Packard) I have reached a sweetspot in my personal life and decided to start something on my own. The goal being to spend my time in something I am passionate about while delivering value to companies and society.

With this idea in mind, I am currently working towards the completion of my PhD in Statistics and Operations Research at the Department of Mathematics (FME-UPC) and teaching at the Universitat de Barcelona Statistics Department and ESADE Business School. The PhD completion is intended to update my toolbox in the business mathematics area, specially focused in big data analysis and computer modeling.

At the same time (and here comes the value delivery part!), together with some professors and a fellow PhD student from ETSEIB, we are launching a start up to supply advanced mathematics firepower to industry and businesses. Our idea is to make available to companies the existing computer and mathematical techniques to analyze existing data to reach meaningful decisions that drive action plans, and do this regardless how small these companies are. Something in line with "big data for the small and medium businesses".

Our expertise is in the areas of Data Mining (clustering, discriminant analysis, principal component analysis, dimension reduction techniques), Forecasting (Time Series Analysis, Explicative Regression, etc.), Industrial Statistics (Design of Experiments, Reliability, etc.),Computer Simulation applied to service and supply chain modeling and Optimization techniques.

Companies

• Associate Professor Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2018)
• Patron Fundació Nou Mil.leni (2016)
• CEO and co-founder Datancia. Empower your data! Customer Churn Prediction. Data & Business Analytics (2013)
• Member of The Board Of Directors Kymos Pharma Services, SL (2013)
• Associate Professor ESADE Business & Law School (1998)
• Associate Professor Universitat de Barcelona (2014 — 2018)
• Planning Manager HP (2009 — 2012)
• Supply Chain Strategist HP (2007 — 2009)
• IT manager HP (2004 — 2007)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2020.01 — 2024.01)
• Master in Statistics and Operations Research. Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2014 — 2016)
• Programa de Dirección (PDD). IESE Business School - University of Navarra (2001 — 2002)
• Master in Industrial Engineering. School of Industrial Engineering Purdue University (1988 — 1990)
• Ingeniero Industrial. Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyers Industrials de Barcelona Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1983 — 1988)