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Allison Hartsoe

Founder & CEO, Ambition Data

Host - Customer Equity Accelerator Podcast

Author - The Age of Customer Equity

Allison’s experience and passion for analysis allow her to see future trends and relate it all the way back to the tactical moves her clients need to make today. She has built and executed digital customer analytics strategies for Fortune 500 customers including Nike, BlackRock, New England Biolabs, GlaxoSmithKline, HP, Intel, Microsoft, and Seagate as well as fast DTC companies including Dagne Dover, Paul Fredrick, and Xero Shoes.

Before Ambition Data, Allison was Senior Manager at Ernst & Young and VP Analytics at digital measurement firm Semphonic. Allison led several of Semphonic’s largest engagements. Prior to that, Allison cofounded iSyndicate in San Francisco. iSyndicate was backed by Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson and sold digital content to Fortune 500 corporations from media publishers. Allison led the operations team and then the international team, where she opened iSyndicate's first European office in London and later struck a 50-50 joint venture with media powerhouse Bertelsmann.

Allison is published in Forbes, MIT Technology Review, and Fast Company. She has hosted the Customer Centricity Conference at Wharton and was recently named one of the Top 100 Women in Technology by Analytics Insight Magazine. You can listen to her interviews with successful customer-centric executives on her podcast, the Customer Equity Accelerator, via Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify.

Outside of work, Allison has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, bicycled across the US, and rocked a number of local trivia competitions.