John Dryden
Los Angeles, CA, United States0
Building CreationSpace: Strategic Insights for CPG Brands in Hours, not Weeks | Ending AI Hype
Senior data scientist with 15+ years across operations research, statistical modeling, machine learning, and GenAI. Has built end-to-end data products and led cross-functional teams across consumer, enterprise, and industrial domains.
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Co-Founder
CreationSpaceJan 2024 — Present · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Delivering high quality consumer insights to brands of all sizes
CTO & Co-Founder, CreationSpace (backed by Bain & Company)
CREATIONSPACE (BACKED BY BAIN, HUSTLE FUND)Sep 2022 — Jan 2026 · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Led data science workstreams for 25+ private-equity due diligences and corporate strategy engagements. Estimated causal revenue impact of restaurant renovations with matching methods. Built an experimentation and customer lifetime value framework for a national entertainment property, supporting marketing-offer tests for 50K+ recipients. Developed latent-class segmentations for 3+ clients, built purchase-propensity models for thousands of B2B accounts, and analyzed price elasticity and seasonality across 5K+ e-commerce SKUs.
Senior Operations Research Analyst, Team Lead
Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing CompanyJul 2016 — Aug 2022 · El Segundo, CA
Founding data science hire who built and managed a six-person data science and engineering team supporting manufacturing, program scheduling, supply chain, and enterprise operations. Improved operational forecasts for small samples (n < 20) using informative Bayesian priors. Designed and deployed database schemas, data pipelines, KPIs, reports, and governance standards with manufacturing and enterprise teams. Migrated legacy inventory and manufacturing data to Deltek Costpoint ERP as a single source of truth.
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Founder
BeTheHillAug 2014 — Jun 2016
• As a solo founder, conducted customer discovery interviews and developed business proposition. Shut down before launch
Education
Stanford University
B.S. in Management Science & Engineering; Science, Technology and Society
Jun 2009
Activities and societies: Talisman, Alpha Phi Alpha, Associated Students of Stanford University, Residential Education, Alpha Kappa Psi, Residential Computing
University of Southern California
Master of Science - MS in Operations Research Engineering
Jun 2023
fast.ai
Deep Learning, Parts I and II
Carnegie Mellon University
Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute
Completed coursework in statistics, international policy, labor economics and communication
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data ScienceData AnalysisLeadershipOperations ResearchRPython (Programming Language)Scikit-LearnMicrosoft ExcelMarket ResearchBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurshipMarketingDiscrete Event SimulationAnalyticsPublic Speaking