2. Angelique Augereau, chief analytics officer, US Card, Capital One

In brief, it’s been non-linear, diverse and adventurous! I have had four distinct phases that have all built on each other by coincidence rather than construction.  

Management consulting: I started my career at McKinsey & Co. in Japan, India, Brazil and the US. This experience gave me a strong set of foundational skills that underpin who I am professionally.

Entrepreneurship: working in funded scrappy start-ups expanded my ways of working as I engaged in every aspect of the business. Building and leading cross functional teams inventing the future, there’s no playbook, you figure it out day by day, a state of constant iterating and evolution in how you operate.

Intrapreneurship: my experience in consulting and startups-ups helped tremendously here. I built the data innovation team from the ground up in the payments business at J.P. Morgan. Taking the hardest parts of being in a startup and a large company and combining them together! Here I sharpened my storytelling skills, as well as building products at scale in a complex environment.  

Executing at Scale: I now lead a large team harnessing the powering of data and ML across the entire customer experience for Capital One’s US credit card business.

My conviction is that truly sustainable growth and profitability can be unlocked by data-driven intelligence supporting decisions at scale. As a leader, I’m known for a willingness to challenge the status quo as well as attracting, developing and inspiring top talent to cultivate high performing teams. In particular in a technical field, I prioritize coaching my team to become great leaders, on top of great technical experts. I care deeply about creating an environment where people are continually challenged to grow and where lifelong friendships are forged.