Joseph Pope

Vice President
Joseph  Pope
HOME BASE
New York City
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • New York Life Insurance

  • Amazon Advertising

  • Success Academy

  • NBA

  • Madison Logic

  • Double Verify

  • MTV Networks

ALMA MATER
  • Fordham University – Gabelli School of Business, MBA Finance

  • Syracuse University, BS Information Studies and Technology

HOME BASE
New York City
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • New York Life Insurance

  • Amazon Advertising

  • Success Academy

  • NBA

  • Madison Logic

  • Double Verify

  • MTV Networks

ALMA MATER
  • Fordham University – Gabelli School of Business, MBA Finance

  • Syracuse University, BS Information Studies and Technology

Joe Pope is a Vice President of AI System Readiness with more than a decade of experience building data systems, models, and insights using Excel, SQL, R, and Python.

Prior to Accordion, Joe was most recently at New York Life Insurance, where he helped optimize workflows and built prototype applications for Finance and Marketing teams using AI tools like Copilot, AWS Q, and ChatGPT. Before that, he led the Code Bar-Raising initiative at Amazon Advertising, spearheaded the rollout of dbt at Success Academy, and managed a suite of cross-departmental Tableau dashboards to democratize data access at the NBA.

Across his career, Joe has held senior IC and leadership roles spanning BI, Analytics Engineering, Data Science, Data Analysis, and AI Enablement, working across Sales, Marketing, Finance, AdTech, Media, Retail, Sports, and Insurance.

Joe holds an MBA in Finance from Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and a BS in Information Studies and Technology from Syracuse University.

Something you should know
  • Grew up in Columbus, Ohio and still celebrates THE Ohio State University's football team
  • Lifelong guitar player and has been in six different bar bands over the years
  • Loves to explore the city and world with his wife and two kids
Noteworthy
  • Led the Code Bar-Raising initiative and training sessions at Amazon, successfully mitigating cluster traffic issues and spreading best practices across the organization
  • Helped launch dbt at Success Academy, replacing fragmented, ad hoc SQL scripts with a centralized and standardized data transformation pipeline