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About

15 years making big brands' strategies work.

I'm DJ Kolapudi. For more than 15 years I've built marketing measurement and analytics strategies for over 100 Fortune 500 brands — and then helped their teams actually put those strategies to work.

Too often a strategy looks great in a presentation and then nothing changes. NOD fixes that. I help you build the strategy, set it up inside your team, and keep improving it so your business keeps moving forward.

Track record

15+
years in measurement & analytics
100+
Fortune 500 brands
Global
engagements across NA, EMEA, APAC & LATAM
Billions
in media spend managed

Industries

  • Retail
  • Consumer goods (CPG)
  • Beauty
  • Apparel & fashion
  • Consumer electronics & appliances
  • Healthcare & pharma
  • Technology
  • Financial services
  • Media & entertainment
  • Retail media networks
  • Beverages & alcohol
  • Energy
Why NOD exists

A strategy only works when your team can run it.

Almost every company I've worked with has a strategy. Far fewer have a plan for running it day to day — and that's where most of the value gets lost.

A strategy in a slide deck doesn't change anything on its own. It only works when it's built into how your team operates: the tools they use, the numbers they track, and how decisions get made.

I've spent more than 15 years on both sides of that — designing the strategy, then running the operations that made it deliver. NOD is where I do both for you.

APPROVEDTHE DECKTHE OPERATING SYSTEM
How I work

What working with me looks like.

Senior judgment, built into how your team actually operates.

  1. Think.

    100+ Fortune 500 brands

    You work directly with me — someone who's led global analytics and measurement practices for 100+ Fortune 500 brands. The person who designs the strategy is the person in the room making it work, not a junior team you never met in the pitch.

  2. Build.

    Every day, not quarterly

    I don't hand over a deck and walk away. I build the strategy into the tools, data, and decisions your team already uses, so it drives the business every day — not just in the quarterly review.

  3. Grow.

    $100Ms driven

    Every decision ties back to a number that matters. That discipline has driven hundreds of millions in revenue and cost savings across my career, and it's exactly how we'll judge the work together.

Proof

  1. Mix rebalanced; growth restarted with defensible attribution.

    Fortune 500 retail brand6 months
    Impact
    +40% performance$20M revenue−33% waste
    Challenge
    Spending across every channel; no reliable read on what worked.
    What I did
    Rebuilt the measurement foundation; shifted budget to the channels that were genuinely driving revenue.
  2. Won and retained new client business off the same playbook.

    Independent growth agency9 months
    Impact
    New retainers wonRetained on retainer
    Challenge
    Needed senior strategic depth and execution they could deliver under their own brand.
    What I did
    Embedded as their strategy-and-operations partner; built the work and evolved it alongside their clients.
    NOD identified the growth, built the work to capture it, and kept evolving with us.

    Managing Partner, growth agency

  3. Measurement debt cleared; CFO sign-off restored.

    Enterprise media holdcoQuarter 1, ongoing
    Impact
    1,000+ streams unifiedCFO sign-off restored
    Challenge
    Dashboards everywhere; leadership couldn't trust the numbers; decisions stalled.
    What I did
    Consolidated 1,000+ data streams into one governed foundation with shared definitions.
What I'm writing

How NOD thinks.

Frameworks for making better growth decisions — not a marketing feed.

  • AI Strategy Isn't Your Problem. AI Operations Is.

  • Your Dashboards Aren't the Problem. Your Architecture Is.

Next step

If any of this resonates, talk to me.

Thirty minutes. No pitch. We'll figure out whether NOD is the right fit by the end of the call.