Greg Nelson is the AVP of Analytics Services at Intermountain Healthcare. He leads Analytics Product Management, Data Science, and Analytics Engineering and has responsibility for the organization's long-term data and analytics strategy. Before joining Intermountain, Greg has served in executive leadership roles in healthcare, management consulting, and consumer research.

Greg has a passion for people-development and has served as adjunct faculty at Duke University's top-ranked Fuqua School of Business, NC State University's Institute for Advanced Analytics, and as an expert for the International Institute for Analytics. He is a regular speaker and keynote presenter at national and international events. Greg earned his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Psychology, a Masters in Clinical Informatics from Duke University. He conducted Ph.D. level work in Social and Cognitive Psychology from the University of Georgia.

Before starting his consulting career, he experimented with various occupations: social psychologist, computer programmer, police officer, door-to-door chemical salesman, and concrete journeyman.

You can connect with Greg on Twitter @gregorysnelson or LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/gregorysnelson/. You can also visit his website, www.analyticslifecycletoolkit.com, to learn more about some of the tools and techniques outlined in his book.