Aleksandar Lazarevic

Vice President Advanced Analytics Stanley Black & Decker

Aleks leads the company’s efforts to drive savings through advanced Big Data analytics. Aleks is responsible for providing scalable enterprise wide data lake / warehouse platform and leveraging machine learning / AI tools to solve various business problems. .Prior to joining SBD, Aleks worked at Aetna, where he was responsible for overall analytics solution in health care fraud, waste and abuse detection. He is passionate about applying big data technologies and AI in driving a business value and helping people live better life. In addition to health care industry, he has extensive experience in applying analytics in various industries ranging from banking, credit and insurance industry to smart manufacturing and computer security. He is a frequent speaker at national data science and analytics conferences. He has co-edited a book on cyber security analytics, written 8 book chapters and published over 50 research data science articles, which were cited more than 5,000 times. He holds a PhD degree in machine learning from Temple University.