greg duckworth

Responsible for the company's Data Science capability across client delivery and AI product development, partnering with Product Leadership to define and execute the organisation's AI strategy. Leads the design and architecture of ikue's Next Best Action platform, defining the reinforcement learning approach, decision architecture, data model, orchestration framework, and production deployment str

Selected as an Associate Instructor on the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme, teaching AI concepts and applications to senior executives and business leaders from organisations around the world in 6-week short courses, run multiple times per year. Facilitates executive-level discussions by moderating forums, answering technical and strategic questions, and helping participants translate AI

Led the Data Science function for Woolworths' flagship GenAI product (My Woolies Chef), providing technical leadership across AI evaluation, product strategy, and engineering delivery while managing a multidisciplinary team of seven data scientists. Accountable for technical quality and production readiness, defining evaluation frameworks and acceptance criteria for model performance, safety, retr

Played a leading role in establishing and scaling Daemon's AI & Machine Learning consulting practice, driving business development, technical leadership, and enterprise delivery across a growing portfolio of clients. Led multidisciplinary teams spanning AI, software engineering, cloud, and solution architecture, and trained a novel neural-network model (DONUT) using decoder-only transformer archit

Progressed from Director to Senior Director, leading Data Science across Marketing and Operations. Built and led a high-performing Data Science team, partnering with executive stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities, and led the end-to-end delivery of production data science solutions, including a machine learning optimisation platform for digital marketing that increased campaign ROI b

Focused on consulting and product analytics, applying NLP, image recognition, and statistical modeling to drive client insights. Key technologies: R, Python, SQL.

Delivered multi-level statistical models, GLMs, and experimental analytics for marketing and product insights. Key technologies: AWS, R, SQL.

Built probabilistic, tree-based, and spatially-explicit models to support client decision-making and reporting. Key technologies: Bash, R, SQL, Tableau.

Grade: 80%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification, completed in 2023 with a course grade of 80%.

Grade: 83%

Executive Leadership Program from the University of Oxford, completed in 2022 with a course grade of 83%.

Grade: 86%

Communicating for Impact and Influence course from the University of Cambridge, completed in 2021 with a course grade of 86%.

Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from the University of Cape Town, completed from 2013 to 2016.

Grade: Distinction

MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Cape Town, passed with distinction.

Grade: 70%

BSc (Hons) in Biological and Physical Sciences from the University of Cape Town, with a 70% course aggregate.