Summary: In this episode we speak to Mark Blakey, Ex-Managing Director at his own technology company Mainstream Consulting. We talk about: - how to combine entrepreneurship and data science, - how to create small teams that punch above their weight, - how to scale data-driven products using machine learning and much more! He founded and led Mainstream Consulting, a technology company, for 20 years. During that time he built a blue-chip client base of top tier high street banking customers including CBA, NAB, ANZ, Barclays Bank, Abbey National plc, Legal and General Bank, Woolwich plc, Mortgage Trust plc, Clydesdale Bank, Yorkshire Bank and many others. Mark is currently the founder and organiser of popular Melbourne meetup group on applications of machine learning to stock market prediction: https://www.meetup.com/Machine-Learning-Applied-to-Stock-Market-Predictions/ Show notes: www.datafuturology.com/podcast/6 Mark is based in: Melbourne, Australia --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/datafuturology/message
