Backed by a team of experienced professionals, our strategic services meet the needs of all types and sizes of clients - from small startups to large firms - and deliver lasting changes with measurable growth.
There are many types of consultancies, but at a high-level, there are procedure-type and brain-type (only coincidental to our name). Procedure-type firms manage and centralize knowledge, lowering the knowledge and expertise of staff. This needs large numbers of people in a high leverage model.
Hired Brains operates as a brain-type of consultancy, mostly dependent on the qualities of their people in a low leverage model, where knowledge transfer and collaboration with clients are key factors to our success.
Neil Raden
Founder / Principal Analyst
Neil Raden is a mathematician, former P&C actuary, consultant and industry analyst and has for more than a quarter-century devised and implemented analytical decision-making systems for industry and government He delivers context and advisory services in the application of analytics, decision management, AI and AI Ethics as an author and popular speaker..
AI Last Mile
Organizations report 50-85% of AI projects fail to return measurable returns. Neil practically invented the practice of AI Last Mile, to guide companies through the often overlooked analysis and review of AI systems.
He is the founder of Hired Brains Research, co-author of the book Smart (Enough) Systems, is a contributing analyst at Diginomica, chairman of advisory boards at Sandia Labs, One of the first to lecture at TDWI on data warehouse design and a contributor to Forbes..Thinkers360 lists him in the top 20 globally as a thought leader and influencer (#analytics, #5 AI, #20 #7 Predictive Analytics)
T.S. Wiley
Senior Advisor / Science
T.S. Wiley is a true polymath. She publishes in peer-reviewed scientific papers in molecular oncology, endocrinology, and physics, but with an abiding interest in AI, quantum computing and pointing out inconsistencies in our practice.. She is often present at medical education conferences globally to lecture and share her expertise. She also educates physicians in the field of Environmental Endocrinology. and provides true scientific input into everything we do. As a medical theorist, researcher, and writer, she is the author of Sex, Lies & Menopause (Harper Collins, 2003), and Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival (Pocket Books, Simon and Schuster, 2000). Wiley has appeared on national television programs including (but not limited to), CNN, Fox News with Hannity and Colmes, Good Morning America, Larry King, the Today Show, Extra!, and other various major news sources like the New York Times, Newsweek and the New York Post. Also, in 2006, Wiley was invited to testify as an expert before the US Senate.
Ian McGuinness
VP Consulting
Ian is a twenty-year veteran of the healthcare informatics industry. He provides strategy consulting services to technology vendors, participates in conducting the firm's research reports and surveys, and also adds advisory and consulting services to direct clients including assessment, vendor selection and implementation. Current projects involve readiness assessment for Big Data, advanced analytics and data warehouse hybrid strategy.
Kevin Pledge
Senior Advisor / Insurance
Kevin is is a Fellow of both the SOA and IFoA, CEO of Acceptiv, a company that delivers online insurance solutions for insurance companies, He was also CEO of Claim Analytics for several years, specializing in predictive analytics to manage insurance claims. He advised Microsoft for five years, has served on three Society of Actuaries (SOA) section councils, and is currently involved in the SOA’s initiative on advanced business analytics.. Kevin also chaired the Society of Actuaries Professional Development Committee. Kevin is an entrepreneur and a regular public speaker, and he has written numerous articles for industry newsletters and magazines, and recently authored a feature article on social media in the April/May edition of The Actuary.
About “Smart Enough Systems”
“Automated decision systems are probably already being used in your industry and they will undoubtedly grow in importance. If your business needs to make quick, accurate decisions on an industrialized scale, you need to read this book.”
Thomas H. Davenport, Professor, Babson College, Author of Competing on Analytics
Hired Brains’ Neil Raden is one of the true gems in the data and analytics industry. He is rare in his ability to help clients understand the business value of technology, and engages in both provocative and pragmatic ways to help customers to envision what is possible from the never-ending parade of data and analytic technologies.”
— Bill Schmarzo, CTO, Hitachi Vantara