DATA DRIVEN INSIGHTS

Uncover Inflections

Our promotional ensemble tracks millions of email messages from nearly 400 leading consumer brands to detect changes in language that can reveal inflections in demand.

Retail Desperation Indices

Monitor when brands are struggling to move inventory and change their language to extend sales, increase markdowns, or move more products to clearance.

Best In Industry Promotional Data Repository

We categorize, and parse hundreds of millions of emails to create the most accurate insight into promotional send patterns from leading retailers.

Custom Analysis

Our large repository of millions email, and web traffic can help your team discover trends unavailable to other transactional based sources.

IDENTIFYING INFLECTIONS

Our Email classification engine uses NLP and machine learning to quantitatively track trends in discounting and promotions.

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PROMOTIONAL EMAIL INSIGHTS

Our team generates and maintains the industry’s most accurate quantitative promotional trend data for over 300 brands. Our data scientists, natural language processing python developers, email systems experts, software engineers focus on creating the most robust insights in how brands are communicating with customers and leads. Random Walk’s focus is not telling our institutional investors how to do invest, but instead providing them with very clear quantitative measurable data visualizations. Specifically, we deliver a promotional ensemble that provides a picture of potential trend changes and inflections. The easiest method management teams have to react to poor demand is to ramp email activities and our systems alert investors before the market to these changes

FOUNDER, GREG ROBIN

Greg Robin is the founder of Random Walk. He has over twenty years experience in finance and delivered big data insights to investors long before it was popularized on the street. He has a background in computer science with a graduate degree in distributed systems and has a background in search engine optimization having worked with over a dozen publicly traded companies. He previously held his research analyst Series 86/87, Series 24, Series 7, Series 4.

KRUPALI PAREKH, DATA ANALYTICS

Finance and Data Analytics professional with 15+ years of experience working with in diverse industries including investment banking and consultancy. . Creating dashboards, data analysis and excel based models are my profession, but my passion is as a nature enthusiast and love for books.

DENISE APTEKAR, ADVISOR

Denise Aptekar helps drive the strategic vision for Random Walk. Denise has achieved success in the fintech space as one of the first PayPal team members, later a team member for Upwork. She has provided management consulting as well as successfully invested in several pre IPO successes. Denise is a Stanford graduate and long time Silicon Valley resident.

KLAUS SCHULTE, DATA VISUALIZATION

Dr. Klaus Schulte is a master in data visualization and leads the design and implementation of Random Walks promotional ensemble primarily within Tableau. Klaus is a professor and CEO of CO data GmbH and has been awarded the honor of Iron Viz Champion and is recognized as a Tableau Zen Master

STEVE MCELROY, EMAIL MARKETING ANALYST

Steve Michael has over 15 years expertise working with Fortune 100 brands on email marketing. Expertise in understanding needs to optimize open rates, minimize spam and assist in segmentation and targeted campaigns. Steve is responsible for interpretation of email promotions captures and provides a product development road map.

ANNA HYSELL, OF COUNCIL

Anna Hysell serves as council for Random Walk, bringing nearly two decades of experience. A University of Wisconsin Law graduate, Anna was selected to the U.S. Department of Justice for the prestigious positions with the Attorney General Honors Program under former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Ms. Hysell was sent with a team of Government attorneys to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia where she was provided advanced training in all aspects of federal litigation.