Dr. Karl Schubert began his career with IBM Research in San Jose, California and now is a Professor and the Associate Director for the Data Science Program at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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He has 30+ years of experience in technology and operations and a proven track record of success starting new divisions, leading turnarounds, shaping, and supporting the attainment of corporate goals, driving innovation, mitigating risks, maximizing ROI, and creating a strong corporate culture.

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Karl’s experience includes extensive work setting corporate technology strategy, overseeing technology acquisitions, academic partnerships, developing and modernizing technology infrastructure, and enhancing reliability. He has deep financial knowledge from 10+ years of P&L experience, budget creation, cost control, negotiation, cash flow, financial planning and forecasting, business analysis, mergers/acquisitions/divestitures, and corporate governance.

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In addition to developing successful college-level programs for budding technologists, entrepreneurs, and data scientists, Karl improved speed-of-access 70% for the US Navy, saving $200+ million annually, transformed 2 separate unprofitable divisions at Grass Valley into the company’s most profitable divisions with $80 million in revenue. He also created Dell’s first-ever storage division and built it to $100 million in its first year and to $250 million in its second year, with a 25% profit margin—the highest in the company at that time.  In 3 years, he generated $5 billion working with Dell’s corporate finance team on venture capital investments—this group was later spun-off to become Dell Ventures.  He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology and Senior Member of IEEE, ACM, and IISE.

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Location: Arkansas