Mark Chen

Mark currently leads the Supply Chain Data Analytics team at Mountain Equipment Coop, one of Canada's most iconic brands and largest retail suppliers of outdoor recreation gear and clothing. His team supports the analytics behind inventory management by designing interactive dashboards, automating repetitive day-to-day tasks, and encouraging a more precise and data driven framework for decision making.

Prior to joining MEC, Mark was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where he pursued his passion for structured problem solving (breaking a big problem into workable business questions), robust data analytics (turning the "data" into actionable "insights" to support executive decision making), and effective communications (delivering impactful recommendations catered to each specific audience).