Experts & Advisors
Michael Rinaldi
Senior Director
Michael Rinaldi is a Senior Director at Ankura based out of New York with more than 15 years of experience in scoping, executing, and delivering data-driven value to his clients. Familiar with a wealth of platforms and methods, Michael comes to Ankura with both advisory and industry experience, including multiple top firms in addition to roles in house roles in the Insurance and Hospitality industries. He brings to Ankura expertise in a number of areas:
Experience
Complex Litigation
- Mike has recent experience in large litigations, teaming with counsel, experts, and economists in researching and constructing expert reports, economic modeling, and putting to work vast and disparate data sets in the creation of value.
Cyber Security
- With experience in both proactive and reactive threat response, Mike recently led a team quantifying the size and scope of an intrusion. He also led the way in establishing improved access controls and developing a proactive monitoring system, complete with company specific thresholds to help protect against future events.
People Analytics / Human Capital
- Mike has experience in labor strategy and resultant analytics programs, both from an operational and back end perspective. Specifically, mastery of the UKG platform, making use of both off the shelf and custom capabilities as well as making sense of the complex data the system creates.
- Most recently, Mike stood up and led a labor analytics program for a complex, multi-site, 50,000 team member organization, taking on everything from conceptualization to definition to value capture, letting underlying labor data combined with an innovative combination of other sources create initiatives and uncover value.
- Mike has previously extracted significant variable labor savings in the hospitality industry by using data to identify opportunities, applying expertise around operations and tactical program creation.
Operational Improvement
- Through his work in the hospitality, financial services, and life sciences industries, Mike has become an expert in learning, mapping, and interweaving data into operational improvement engagements for organizations large and small.
- Mike has experience in particular with learning and extracting value from in house developed systems, both for standalone or ad hoc purposes, in support of finance, sales, and labor functions.
- Education
- BS, Rochester Institute of Technology