“Solid ideas and experiences, well-told, for executives who need higher returns from their analytic investments. Captures many best practices that are consistent with our own experiences at Bain & Company, helping clients develop actionable strategies that deliver sustainable results.”
—Bob Bechek, Worldwide Managing Director, Bain & Company
“Successful marketing today demands balancing analytic sophistication with the practicality that can put insights to work. Cesar’s book synthesizes a set of ideas and case studies that offer proven approaches for getting this balance right.”
—Torrence Boone, Managing Director of Agency Relations for North America, Google Inc.
“Cesar has explored a complex subject in a clear and useful way as senior marketers look to more effectively leverage the power of data and analytics.”
—Bill Brand, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, HSN, Inc.
“Loaded with meaty lessons from seasoned practitioners, this book defines the guideposts of the Marketing Analytics Age and what it will take for marketing leaders to be successful in it. Cesar Brea has provided a practical playbook for marketers who are ready to make this transition.”
—Meredith Callanan, Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Communications, T. Rowe Price
“In my time at both Condé Nast and Gilt, we used data extensively to create the best possible experiences for our clients and partners. Cesar’s focus on getting the conditions right for analytics, and the experiences he captures to illustrate this theme, bring uniquely valuable perspectives to the conversation on this topic.”
—Sarah Chubb, Digital Media Consultant, former president, Condé Nast Digital and Gilt City
“In Marketing and Sales Analytics, Cesar Brea takes complex Big Data issues and frames them in a straightforward way that business executives of all kinds will find helpful and enlightening. This book is a great first step to using data analytics strategically to build stronger and more genuine customer relationships that drive growth and profitability.”
—Chris Malone, Managing Partner, Fidelum Partners and co-author of The HUMAN Brand: How We Relate to People, Products and Companies
“As a provider of a marketing attribution management platform, we work with many leading brands that have charted a course to more holistic measurement across their entire marketing ecosystem. This has resulted in truly actionable insights as well as recommendations for optimizing their overall performance. Cesar’s book is a tremendous guide for marketers looking to implement a more integrated, cohesive measurement and optimization strategy, empowered by a data driven approach that’s woven into the fabric of their businesses.
—Manu Mathew, CEO, Visual IQ, Inc.
“While the field has a lot of books on the statistics of marketing analytics, we also need insights on the organization issues and culture needed to implement successfully. Cesar Brea’s Marketing and Sales Analytics has addressed this gap in an interesting and helpful way.”
—Scott A. Neslin, Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
“Cesar’s book comes at a time of unprecedented change for sales and marketing executives. He’s captured the transition point between analytics as we have known it with the future of Hadoop and related big data technologies to create a driving force of continuous learning and optimization.”
—John Schroeder, CEO and Co-founder, MapR Technologies
Cesar A. Brea is Managing Partner of Force Five Partners, LLC (forcefivepartners.com), a marketing analytics agency that works with clients in a number of industries to design and execute multi-channel marketing and sales strategies, and to build pragmatic, sustainable analytic foundations.
Cesar has more than twenty years experience as a line executive, advisor, and entrepreneur. Prior to co-founding Force Five Partners in 2008, Cesar served as Global Practice Leader for Marketspace, the digital media and marketing practice of Monitor Group, the international strategy consulting firm founded by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter. Formerly, Cesar was CEO of Contact Networks, an early LinkedIn competitor sold to Thomson Financial in 2006, and was Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Razorfish, the world’s leading digital advertising agency. Before Razorfish, Cesar was Vice President for Marketing and Business Development at ArsDigita Corporation, an open-source software firm focused on online communities acquired by Red Hat Software in 2002. Earlier, Cesar was a management consultant at Bain & Company and a banker at J.P. Morgan.
Cesar holds an MBA from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar, and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College. He is a frequent writer and speaker on marketing in the digital age. In 2012, Cesar published his first book on this topic, Pragmalytics: Practical Approaches to Marketing Analytics in the Digital Age. Cesar has been a guest lecturer in undergraduate and graduate programs at MIT and Harvard, and writes about marketing and ebusiness on his blog at http://octavianworld.org, and on Twitter (@cesarbrea).
Cesar and his wife Nan Leonard live in Dover, Massachusetts, and have three children, Ben, Kate, and Will. On summer weekends, they enjoy sailing on Nantucket Sound.
