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Founder · Data professional · Applied researcher

Olanrewaju Sa’id

Building the bridge between enterprise data, intelligent systems and commercial value.

I work where complex data, institutional systems and market opportunity meet—helping organisations build trusted foundations, develop decision intelligence and translate technical capability into outcomes that matter.

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Enterprise practiceApplied researchCommercial intelligence
£5.298mUK government grant value for ISEE Retrofit
10+ yearsRelevant hands-on professional experience
91.6%Recall achieved by the leading IPO prediction model
0.96 R²Yield-point prediction in published rheology research

01 · Professional proposition

From data foundations
to decisions and growth.

Olanrewaju combines enterprise finance systems and master-data practice with applied machine learning, research and commercial thinking.

The result is an unusually complete perspective: how information is structured, how intelligence is produced, how products earn trust—and how capability becomes measurable organisational value.

02 · Institutional experience

Work inside systems
that have to perform.

Credibility built across enterprise data, energy innovation, finance systems and technology commercialisation.

UK energy transition · Enterprise data

ISEE Retrofit: a smarter transition to Net Zero

As Group Senior Finance Systems Analyst at SMS, worked with the master-data team, data architects and enterprise stakeholders supporting ERP and finance-system foundations around METIS. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero-backed programme tests how smart-meter data, tariffs and energy technologies can accelerate household transition.

£5,298,209DESNZ grant200PV + battery installations120 MWhclean power generated9,100+app downloads
Master data→ERP & finance→Enterprise architecture→Energy innovation
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Breaking Barriers Award · EnterpriseTECH 2026

Commercial feasibility for a digital-twin concept in atmospheric science

Selected as a Breaking Barriers Award recipient at the Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School. Worked on a commercial-feasibility report for an early-stage digital-twin idea from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the University of Cambridge.

Digital twinearly-stage conceptFeasibilitycommercial reportNCASatmospheric scienceCambridgeinnovation ecosystem
Research context→Market evidence→Commercial feasibility
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Olanrewaju Sa’id at Cambridge
Cambridge2025

03 · Research and applied intelligence

Evidence-based.

Selected research is presented as evidence: the question, the system built, the result and why it matters.

Machine-learning experiment architecture

Capital markets · Crunchbase · United Kingdom

Can startup data reveal which companies are positioned for an IPO?

Problem
Investment data is abundant, but converting fragmented funding and company signals into credible forward-looking insight remains difficult.
What I built
A comparative prediction study using Crunchbase API data for UK startups, testing five machine-learning approaches across a 1999–2020 analysis window.
Result
91.6% recall from the leading XGBoost model, supported by ROC analysis and SHAP explainability.
Why it matters
A practical foundation for investor screening, market intelligence and explainable data products—without treating prediction as certainty.
Published three-stage prediction pipeline

Engineering · Predictive analytics · Explainability

Predicting heavy-crude flow behaviour under thermal conditions.

Problem
Yield point and viscosity influence how heavy crude can be transported and processed, but their nonlinear thermal behaviour is difficult to model reliably.
What we did
Built a three-stage pipeline combining feature engineering, Gradient Boosting and SHAP analysis against controlled rheometer observations.
Result
R² 0.9627 for yield-point prediction and R² 0.8428 for apparent viscosity.
Impact
Shows how accurate, explainable modelling can support engineering judgement and more efficient thermal processing decisions.

Carbon markets · Intelligent search

GreenIQ

Deep search for carbon-market analysis and automated reporting.

Problem

Carbon-market intelligence is fragmented across standards, methodologies and project documentation.

Approach

Designed a research workflow for comprehensive discovery, structured analysis and automated report generation.

HELSINKI, FINLAND10th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies · ICMLT 2025 · IEEE proceedingsDOI: 10.1109/ICMLT65785.2025.11193211 ↗

Climate policy · Multi-agent systems

Accelerating Policy Decisions

Interactive question-answering over complex climate-policy data.

Problem

Policy evidence is distributed, technical and difficult for decision-makers to interrogate quickly.

Approach

Explored a multi-agent system for retrieving, synthesising and explaining policy evidence through dialogue.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA5th World Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming · 2025Conference abstract and author record ↗

04 · Credentials

Technical depth.
Commercial judgement.

Olanrewaju Sa’id participating in an institutional learning and innovation session
Continuous inquiry · Applied judgement · Institutional perspective
Professional certificationBloomberg ESG

Environmental, social and governance analysis in financial and investment contexts.

Professional capabilityAdvanced Data Analytics

Data preparation, analysis, visualisation, modelling and evidence-led decision support.

PostgraduateMSc Finance & Data Analytics

University of Stirling · finance, machine learning and empirical analysis.

Technology commercialisationEnterpriseTECH

Cambridge Judge Business School · research-to-market and venture proposition development.

Professional membershipBCS

Professional Member of the Chartered Institute for IT · British Computer Society.

Research networkEuropean Alliance for Innovation

Member of a European community connecting research, technology and applied innovation.

05 · Data environments

From global datasets
to enterprise systems.

Experience spans financial and startup intelligence, energy-system data and the architecture required to operate information reliably at institutional scale.

BloombergMarkets · ESG · financial intelligence
CrunchbaseVenture funding · companies · IPO outcomes
ENTSO-EEuropean electricity-system and market data
Microsoft ecosystemERP · finance systems · enterprise data
SQL & data architectureModels · migration · governance · integration
Machine-learning environmentsPython · XGBoost · SHAP · predictive analytics
Core practiceData architectureMachine learningProduct commercialisationFinance & revenue intelligence

06 · Industries and institutional contexts

Where trusted data
changes real outcomes.

Particularly relevant where regulation, infrastructure, capital or operational complexity make the quality of decisions consequential.

01Energy, utilities & net zero

Smart energy, enterprise systems, market innovation and transition infrastructure.

02Financial services & digital assets

Markets, ESG, tokenisation, investment intelligence and regulated data.

03Government & public systems

Data capability, GovTech, policy evidence and accountable intelligent systems.

04Technology & data products

Product strategy, commercialisation, analytics and explainable machine learning.

05Research & higher education

Research-to-market, deep-tech assessment and innovation readiness.

06Commerce & consumer markets

Customer intelligence, e-commerce, sales measurement and revenue growth.

07 · Selected perspectives

Reading the systems
behind the headlines.

Short analytical directions connecting policy, infrastructure, markets and technology.

Germany · AI sovereignty

Europe is building an industrial AI stack of its own

Soofi S and Germany’s €1 billion Industrial AI Cloud point to a wider contest over compute, open models, industrial capability and technological sovereignty.

Explore the signal ↗
United Kingdom · Data regulation

Data governance is moving upstream

The UK’s call for evidence asks whether regulation remains fit for AI and other data-intensive technologies—making data architecture a strategic and policy concern.

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Africa · Compute & infrastructure

The AI opportunity is also an energy-system test

Large compute investments are colliding with grid, connectivity and water constraints. The central question is how infrastructure capital can build durable local capability.

Examine the investment ↗

08 · Services

Bring the problem.
Build the right system.

Engagements are shaped around the organisation, decision and outcome—not forced into an off-the-shelf template.

01

Data foundations & enterprise architecture

Master data strategy, governance, data models, integration, migration and the foundations required for dependable institutional intelligence.

Master data · Architecture · Governance · Migration
02

ERP, finance systems & transformation

Finance-system optimisation, ERP readiness, process and control design, reporting structures and cross-functional enterprise delivery.

ERP · Finance transformation · Controls · Reporting
03

Predictive analytics & intelligent systems

Machine-learning prototypes, predictive modelling, explainability, decision intelligence and responsible pathways from experiment to adoption.

XGBoost · SHAP · Forecasting · Decision systems
04

Research commercialisation & innovation

Turning science and technical research into propositions, market evidence, investment narratives and credible routes to adoption and scale.

Market validation · Product strategy · Research to market
05

Revenue, customer & product intelligence

Connecting customer, sales, product and financial data to reveal value, strengthen measurement and build commercially useful data products.

Customer intelligence · E-commerce · Revenue analytics
06

Strategic research & executive advisory

Focused research, horizon scanning, executive briefings and decision support around data, infrastructure and the Intelligent Economy.

Foresight · Briefings · Strategic intelligence

09 · Engagement options

Different briefs require
different structures.

The right starting point depends on the clarity of the problem, the capability already in place and the outcome required.

Olanrewaju Sa’id contributing to a collaborative roundtable discussion
Roundtable discussion · Collaborative problem-solving
Selected datasets, projects, platforms and professional ecosystems

Datasets, organisations, platforms and professional ecosystems connected to my work and experience.

GOV.UKGovernment programme
Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroUnited Kingdom government
METISEnergy innovation
MicrosoftEnterprise systems
crunchbaseStartup intelligence
BloombergFinancial data & ESG
GoogleData analytics
BCSProfessional membership
European Alliance for InnovationProfessional network
ICMLT 2025Helsinki · Finland
CCGCONF 2025Vienna · Austria
Cambridge Judge Business SchoolEnterpriseTECH

10 · Programmes and capacity building

Get prepared.

Courses and organisational programmes translate the same expertise into structured capability building for governments, public institutions, executives, professionals and technical teams.

Engage

Let’s talk about what
you are working on.

Available for select paid advisory engagements, defined projects, retained support, capacity-building programmes and senior contract or leadership opportunities across government, public institutions and industry—share the problem, opportunity or outcome you have in mind, and how you think we might work together. Every message is read personally and considered case by case.

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