Jon Hay, vice president, data, intelligence and analytics, Boston Red Sox

What has been your path to power? 

Originally born in Australia, I moved to Boston with my family when I was six years old and grew up obsessing over sports. After graduating Harvard with a degree in economics, I went to work on Wall Street at Morgan Stanley where I ran the firm’s U.S. Inflation Derivative business. After five years, I headed to Chicago Booth to obtain my MBA in order to pursue my dream of working in sports. After graduation, I managed to talk my way into a baseball analytics internship with my hometown Boston Red Sox, working for the esteemed Bill James on projects around player performance projections. After a few years, I was fortunate to receive an opportunity to apply the same skills to the business side of the house, leveraging data and analytics to help drive revenues at the organization. Over the past seven years, I have built my team to encompass data infrastructure, business intelligence, CRM, predictive analytics, and machine learning all with the goal of helping the Boston Red Sox drive success off of the field so that we can also find success on the field. I am the proud owner of two World Series rings and eagerly anticipate the third!