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Leadership

Built by a marketing scientist, not a software vendor.

The models Franco Analytics ships are the work of one person with three decades of turning commercial data into decisions — and the academic grounding to defend every number.

Juan Carlos Franco Laverde

Juan Carlos Franco Laverde

Founder & principal

Franco Analytics is built by one marketing scientist with three decades spent turning commercial data into decisions — across FMCG, retail, banking and media. The through-line has never changed: models that are statistically sound and commercially useful, handed over as tools a team can actually run.

The academic grounding is real. A PhD from Western Sydney University, and the creation of a comparative financial index for Australian FMCG — alongside peer-reviewed work spanning marketing science and financial economics. The method behind every tool is published or documented, never hidden.

The work runs across the whole measurement stack — marketing mix modelling, incrementality and causal validation, customer lifetime value, brand-portfolio allocation and media planning. Same standard throughout: show the working, reconcile the numbers, and end on a decision that moves growth.

Juan Carlos Franco Laverde

Statistically sound

Grounded in evidence

Doctoral research and peer-reviewed methods under every model — not vendor defaults you take on trust.

Commercially useful

Built for the decision

Made for the call a leader has to make — and the finance team who will question it.

Yours to run

A tool, not a seat

Delivered as models you keep and drive, with the methodology documented in the tool.

Experience
Founder & principal
Franco Analytics
2024–present
APAC Chief Science & Analytics Officer
GroupM Australia
2018–24
National Head of Business Science
MediaCom Australia
2011–17
Director of Brand Science
OMD Australia
2007–11
Head of Modelling
Unilever Australasia
2004–07
Education & credentials
PhD
Western Sydney University
2018
CPA Certified Practising Accountant
Qualified since 2007
2007
MBA
Western Sydney University
2003
MFin Finance (coursework)
Universidad Autónoma de Manizales
2000
MEcon Economics, econometrics research
Javeriana University
1998
BEcon Economics
Javeriana University
1994

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