Sujata Karan
60.17°N, 24.94°E · HELSINKI, FINLAND

I turn fragmented data into decisions executives actually trust.

Analytics, AI & Marketing Measurement Strategy

14+ years building the analytics and AI capability behind a €1B+ global business: a marketing measurement framework built from scratch, an in-house dashboard function that cut ~€100K a year in vendor costs, and an AI transformation roadmap now running in daily workflows.

14+ YEARS CHARTED
Industry experience
Wärtsilä Colgate-Palmolive Tata Consultancy Services Wärtsilä Colgate-Palmolive Tata Consultancy Services
Platforms & tools
Power BI Amazon Redshift Salesforce Microsoft Microsoft Copilot Google Analytics 4 Tableau Power BI Amazon Redshift Salesforce Microsoft Microsoft Copilot Google Analytics 4 Tableau
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Portrait of Sujata Karan
SUJATA KARAN HELSINKI
The route so far

Three industries, one throughline: data that earns trust before it earns action.

IT services, consumer goods and industrial marine technology, all with the same discipline in every direction: measurement, governance and one unified view of the data.

WAYPOINT 01

Wärtsilä

HELSINKI & MUMBAI, DEC 2019 – JUL 2026

Built Wärtsilä's marketing measurement framework, data governance and AI strategy from the ground up across a global marine and energy technology business.

WAYPOINT 02

Colgate-Palmolive

MUMBAI, JUL 2016 – NOV 2019

Senior Analyst leading an analytics team serving Colgate's Asia and Europe divisions. Built a KPI harmonization framework that cut reporting costs by 17% and automated dashboards that saved 16 FTE hours a month.

WAYPOINT 03

Tata Consultancy Services

BANGALORE, JUN 2012 – JUN 2016

Senior Business Analyst on the Nielsen Insights team, working the Kraft Heinz account. Turned point-of-sale and panel data into recommendations for CPG clients.

How I help

Six ways I turn scattered data into decisions worth acting on.

Whether you're building a team or bringing in outside capability, this is the work I do best.

01

AI Strategy & Adoption

Roadmaps, governance operating models and use-case portfolios that take AI from pilot to daily habit, grounded in real adoption data, not hype.

02

Marketing Measurement

Frameworks that connect spend to outcomes: attribution, marketing mix modeling, and a KPI taxonomy every business unit actually uses.

03

Executive Dashboards

Unified, self-service reporting built once and trusted by leadership, replacing scattered exports with one source of truth.

04

Data & Analytics Strategy

Current-state assessments, platform evaluation and a prioritized roadmap for turning raw data into a real analytics capability.

05

KPI Frameworks & Governance

A common language for performance, plus the ownership and stewardship model that keeps it trustworthy as the org scales.

06

AI Automation & Agentic Workflows

Hands-on agent design and deployment: from a communication content agent reviewing hundreds of posts a month to workflow automation that gives teams time back.

Capability

What I do, organized by capability, not just by tool.

The tools change. The underlying capability doesn't.

Analytics Strategy
  • Marketing measurement frameworks
  • KPI taxonomy design
  • ROI & attribution modeling
Tools: Power BI, GA4
AI & Automation
  • AI strategy & agent design
  • Workflow automation
  • Responsible AI / human-in-the-loop
Tools: Microsoft Copilot, n8n
Measurement & Experimentation
  • Multi-touch attribution
  • Marketing mix modeling
  • A/B testing & propensity modeling
Tools: SQL, Python
Data Integration & Platforms
  • Data integration (ETL/API)
  • Cloud data platforms
  • Data modelling
Tools: AWS Redshift, SQL, Python
Executive Leadership
  • Stakeholder & vendor management
  • Budget planning
  • Team leadership & mentoring
Tools: Jira, Confluence, Asana
BI & Visualization
  • Executive dashboarding
  • Self-service analytics
  • Data storytelling
Tools: Power BI, Tableau, CRM Analytics

See the full experience & skill set →

Selected work

From the logbook

Four projects, each in the same shape: the problem, the approach, and what changed because of it.

01Measurement

Marketing Measurement Framework

Challenge

Marketing performance was reported inconsistently across business units, with no shared definition of success.

Approach

Adapted Gartner's marketing metrics hierarchy into a Return-on-Objective model, giving every business unit a common KPI taxonomy tied to business outcomes.

Outcome

Replaced a patchwork of disconnected reporting with one shared source of truth, used consistently across the function.

Gartner ROO KPI Taxonomy Power BI
Explore the interactive dashboard →
02AI Governance

AI Strategy & Data Governance

Challenge

AI adoption across Marketing & Communications was scattered and ungoverned, with no shared roadmap or accountability model.

Approach

Led the function's AI transformation roadmap and governance operating model, evolving AI from tool to agent to influencer, and drove adoption through Microsoft Copilot and agentic workflows.

Outcome

Built and scored a portfolio of candidate AI agents against value and feasibility, with two live in production workflows, including a communication AI Agent reviewing roughly 70% of content and cutting drafting time by about half.

AI Strategy Data Governance Copilot
03Dashboards

Webinar Performance Dashboard

Challenge

Webinar performance data (attendance, engagement, Q&A, pipeline impact) lived in disconnected tools with no live view for the team.

Approach

Built Power BI dashboards tracking live Q&A, poll and survey responses alongside attendance and pipeline data in one unified view.

Outcome

Featured in Salesforce Ben's account of Wärtsilä's webinar strategy, where webinar-influenced pipeline grew roughly 78x year over year. Insights from one session's live Q&A led to a sale worth more than €1M.

Featured in Salesforce Ben →
Power BI GoToWebinar Salesforce
04Speaking

Conference Speaker, MarDreamin' 2021

Topic

Co-presented "Hacking Future 101: Creative Ways to Transform Lead Generation with Machine Learning" with Alexandra Novikova, on using ML to improve marketing efficiency and lead generation.

Session slide, MarDreamin' 2021
Watch on MarDreamin' →
Machine Learning Lead Generation Public Speaking
Ongoing

AI & Automation Lab

Where I build hands-on with agents, measurement products and workflow automation. Explore the completed portfolio builds below, alongside the tools and case studies currently in development.

Campaign QA Agent workflow showing data checks, OpenAI explanation and human review output

Campaign QA Agent

An AI-assisted n8n workflow that runs deterministic campaign data checks, explains flagged issues with an LLM, and routes findings for human review.

View the walkthrough →
Unified marketing measurement dashboard preview

Unified Marketing Measurement Dashboard

An interactive demonstration connecting brand signals, customer journey, channel performance and commercial outcomes in one decision-ready view.

Explore the dashboard →

Automation Case Study

A deeper write-up of a real workflow automation, including the before/after time saved.

Coming soon

AI Governance Toolkit

A lightweight framework for standing up responsible AI use-case review, shareable as a starting point.

Coming soon
In their words

What it's like to work with me.

A few notes from managers, peers and a client.

Get in touch

Let's build better decisions with data.

Whether you're hiring for a Lead, Senior Analyst or AI Enablement role, or exploring outside help for an analytics or AI initiative, I'd like to hear about it.

Recruiters & hiring managers, and teams exploring consulting support, both welcome.