Dimitar Antov is a current director and former principal at The Cambridge Group and previously led IP development at their Economic Center of Excellence. He is also the managing director at Straight Forward Concepts, a consultancy specializing in sales and marketing strategy activation. In this role, he leads teams that heavily utilize quantitative analysis, machine learning, predictive modeling, CRM database scoring, BI reporting, and data visualization; he also speaks at conferences covering state-of-the-art techniques in data mining and consumer research. Dimitar holds a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University.