Who we are

Our (professional) reason for being is to help our clients make better business decisions.

Delve Partners Corporate Bio

Founded in 2007, Delve Partners is an NY-based Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Marketing consulting group. Delve’s core competencies exist within Data Science, Web Analytics, Transactional Data Mining, Email Analytics, Web, SEO, and SEM Optimization, Forecasting, Primary Research, and Marketing Business Intelligence. Delve’s cross-functional teams represent decades of industry experience driving incremental revenue and cost-savings across acquisition, conversion, and retention programs. As a uniquely positioned partner to companies like TempurPedic, AJMadison.com, and BookIt.com, the Delve team works to integrate all varieties of data sources to drive measurable marketing ROI and informed decision-making. With a holistic view of business requirements, Delve is able to translate objectives into tactics and actionable insights via proprietary processes and tools, making best-practice recommendations applicable to multiple departments and business leaders. Unlike other consultants, Delve Partners serves not only to implement and audit client’s current strategies, tools, and capabilities, but to act as a true extension of in-house teams, performing ongoing reporting, ad-hoc analysis, and answering questions that management does not have the bandwidth, budget, or cross-functional talent to address.

Senior Delve Team

Greg Sobiech
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Client Services | greg.sobiech@delvepartners.com | LinkedIn

Greg is all about the big picture. He’s also all about the details. From his beginnings as an analyst programming SAS in complex corporate litigation cases at Charles River Associates and at Digitas where he helped web clients understand impact from web investments and marketing campaigns, Greg’s main focus has always been to assess situations from all angles and help clients understand what they need for better business. Later roles at BathandBodyWorks.com, Community Connect and ooVoo.com, found him implementing those changes directly and putting stats like “4,000/registrations a day to 40,000/registrations a day” on the board. Results!

Greg’s economic and management roots were grown at the London School of Economics and Clark University, MA. He’s certified in Google Analytics and Omniture SiteCatalyst and is working toward his certification as #1 Dad.

Jeffrey James
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Strategy | jeffrey.james@delvepartners.com | LinkedIn

Our numbers guy, Jeff is also a serious implementation guru. As a Director of Search Marketing at Tipology.com, he generated 100,000 complex travel leads in a 24-month period, managing paid search, SEO and affiliate strategies. At the Prime Visibility Media Group, Jeff managed $1,000,000+ in annual SEM spending across several B2B/B2C clients while handling firm-wide SiteCatalyst and web analytics implementation, reporting and AM training. Then at Pond5.com, he helped grow revenues from $5,000/month to $300,000+/month and organic traffic from 3,000 visits per month to 150,000+ monthly visits. And that’s just a start; you bet we can expect more of this from Jeff.

Jeff has been on the Omniture Customer Advisory Board and is certified in Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Omniture SiteCatalyst and Omniture Test&Target. He began with a degree in finance and is currently looking for more answers with a master’s degree in applied mathematics.

Jack Hoyt
Director of Partnerships

As Delve’s team continued to grow, Greg and Jeff realized that companies of all sizes continued to lack the ability to leverage their data to drive business goals. Jack was hired to bring in new partnerships to augment current clientele, which consisted solely of referrals as a result of jobs well done. Having served as a trusted advisor to IR500 and Fortune1000 clients since his hiring, Jack is relied upon to manage all sales outreach strategy, activity, and account management in addition to some branding and marketing activities. With a B.S. in Marketing from Fairfield University, Jack’s experience stems from diverse sales experiences in customer-facing B2C and B2B roles. His prowess on a surfboard and ability to beat Greg down the mountain on a snowboard and mountain bike, however, is self-taught : )

Gjalt Jellesma
Director, Data Science

Having built and managed analytics teams both agency and client side, Gjalt brings years of analytics consulting expertise to the Delve team. You may hear us tell you that “data is BORING” and Gjalt had the notion back in 2006 that business leaders needed to see it presented in an intelligible and engaging medium, recognizing the importance of data visualization. Until recently, he was responsible for analytics at leading European retailer bol.com where he combined Sitecatalyst and Tableau to get actionable data into the organization. Needless to say, his reports and dashboards soon became the standard for stakeholders. Another cross-functional data science talent, Gjalt helps Delve to advise retail, travel, and finance clients on everything from KPI creation and data collection to data visualization, analysis, testing and optimization. Got a strategic OR operational question? Ask Gjalt.

Robert Enriques
Advisor, Data Analytics

With 14 years of statistical modeling experiencing using tools like SAS, Tableau, SQL, and Excel, Robert has deep expertise in data-driven finance and economic research projects. His wealth of knowledge comes from servicing the quantitative needs of dozens of Fortune 500 companies over the course of 10+ years in the consulting industry and directing marketing and data analytics in the travel, Internet, and healthcare industries. He currently serves as the Director of Business Analytics for a leading healthcare HMO. Robert advises Delve clients requiring advanced data mining and deep-dive analyses. He brings over a dozen years of experience utilizing SAS to make sense of terabytes of public and proprietary data, priding himself on authoring original common sense solutions to ostensibly complex and ambiguous business problems. As an expert with Tableau Software, he also directs the creation of beautiful visualizations for Delve’s clients, encompassing everything from daily KPIs to likelihood modeling and customer cohort analyses.

Kakoli Seal
VP, Customer Insight and Business Intelligence

Kakoli has an interesting take on things most of us miss altogether. With over 20 years of diverse business intelligence leadership at Saks Fifth Avenue, The Limited Brands, Cendant Corporation, Bristol-Myers Squib and AT&T, her talent (lucky for us) is in using technology tools and data to tell a story. At Delve, Kakoli helps our clients realize the intelligence and potential of their customer data and provides actionable insights to drive customer strategy. We would say Kakoli excels at just about everything.

Kakoli has an MS in Statistics from New York University.

Advisors

Elaine Rubin
Founder, Digital Prophets Network

Elaine is an e-commerce pioneer who has spent the past 18 years building, managing and advising direct-to-consumer businesses on their e-commerce and digital marketing initiatives. She is immersed in the digital space and has experience in all aspects of e-commerce, including strategy, planning, implementation and management. Having worked as a manager, executive and consultant inside and outside of many leading brands and retailers, Elaine helps create and formulate the strategy and plan as well as understand the details and skill sets required to create, manage and grow successful multichannel businesses. Elaine co-founded Shop.org, worked at Amazon.com as VP of Enterprise Solutions, and at 1800Flowers.com as SVP of Strategy & Business Development.

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