Symphony EYC Names Adrian Sosa SVP Analytics, Americas

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 26, 2016) -  Symphony EYC, the leading provider of software and services for retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers, today announced the appointment of Adrian Sosa to the new position of Senior Vice President, Analytics, Americas for its insights business. In this new role, Sosa will be responsible for analytics leadership across all clients in the Americas; this includes the development of custom analytics solutions for individual clients as well as the development of new analytics methodologies for the Symphony EYC Customer-Centric Retailing and Symphony Retail Cloud offerings.

Sosa comes to Symphony EYC with more than 15 years of professional analytics and marketing experience in the retail, consumer banking, and client services industries. Most recently, Sosa was Senior Vice President, Membership & Analytics at BJ's Wholesale Club where he led the team responsible for the management and execution of all membership acquisition and relationship marketing and retention programs. Prior to joining BJ's Wholesale Club, Sosa served as Vice President, Analytic Solutions at AirMILES/Loyaltyone in Toronto, Canada, where he was responsible for analytical and CRM delivery for all AirMILES Coalition Sponsors. Sosa started his career at the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury, after which he spent five years in banking, first in Commercial Finance for Wells Fargo, and then M&T Bank Corporation, and subsequently spent eight years with CVS/pharmacy where he helped to run the CVS ExtraCare program.

"At Symphony EYC, I oversee the development of analytics enhancements to the Symphony EYC CCR solutions and work one-on-one with retailers to help them drive more value out of their implementations," said Adrian Sosa, SVP Analytics, Americas, for Symphony EYC's insights business. "I also am very involved with the development and implementation of the new Symphony Retail Cloud offering."

"Adrian Sosa is widely known in the retail industry for his analytics expertise, and we are thrilled to have someone of his calibre leading up our analytics initiatives in the Americas," said Pallab Chatterjee, Chairman of Symphony EYC. "If analytics are the chief driver for the Symphony EYC CCR solutions, then Adrian Sosa as our chief analytics engineer will play a pivotal role in all our product development moving forward."

About Symphony EYC

Symphony EYC brings together customer-centric retail insight solutions with the Symphony GOLD unified software platform for omni-channel retail to solve the toughest business problems for 15 of the world's 30 largest retailers, thousands of retail brands, and hundreds of national and regional chains worldwide. These capabilities maximize profitability by using insights to deliver highly targeted promotions and localized product assortments across all channels, supported by reliable and responsive retail operations and efficient supply chain execution. More at www.eyc.com

Symphony Retail Cloud is the industry's first customer-centric cloud solution that enables retailers and manufacturers to deliver more than two percent revenue growth by translating customer intelligence into insights and actions that drive bottom-line decisions. The intelligent, role-based solution is designed to optimize marketing, merchandising, supply chain and store operations through the combined power of Symphony EYC's customer-centric insights, Symphony GOLD's retail planning, optimization and execution capabilities, Simmons' cross-channel consumer research, and Symphony Advanced Media's real-time cross-media measurement.