Avinash Kaushik is the Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google, and author of the best selling books Web Analytics: An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0. He is also the Co-Founder of Market Motive, the provider of the industry's most comprehensive training online.

Through his blog, Occam's Razor, books, and massively popular newsletter, The Marketing – Analytics Intersect, Avinash has become recognized as an authoritative voice on how executive teams can leverage innovative digital strategies to outsmart their competitors and achieve superior financial results.

Avinash has passionately advocated for a smarter balance between faith and data. In service of that goal he has pushed the industry to use a broader set of data – own, competitive, qualitative, quantitative – along with new applications of classic statistical models that form the foundation of data science. Over the last couple years, he has lead and contributed to application of machine learning algorithms to speed up insights generation and automate decision making.

Avinash has received rave reviews for bringing his energetic, inspiring and actionable insights to companies like Unilever, Chase, Hyatt, Porsche, IBM, Naspers, and Chanel. He has delivered keynotes at conferences in every corner of the world, including the Monaco Media Forum, The Art of Marketing, Synergy Digital, Travel Alberta, Resultados Digitais Summit and Healthcare Strategy Summit.

Acting on his passion for teaching, Avinash has lectured at major universities such as Stanford, University of Virginia, UCLA, and University of Utah. He is on the Advisory Boards of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, University of California at Irivine's program on Web Intelligence, USC's Annenberg School's Media Impact Project, and Udacity.

Avinash has received industry honors such as Statistical Advocate of the Year award from the American Statistical Association, Rising Star award from the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation, and Most Influential Industry Contributor from the Digital Analytics Association.