Eric Olson

Co-Founder, CEO at Consensus

Eric Olson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Consensus, a company that provides on-demand business talent for project-based work. Prior to Consensus, Eric was the Sportsbook Analytics Specialist at DraftKings Inc., where they built predictive models that estimated relative customer skill to manage risk and more optimally target reinvestment spend. Eric has also worked as an Associate at Business Talent Group and as a Business Development Manager at Purple Gator. Eric began their career as an intern at Merrill Lynch in the Private Banking department, and later interned in the Investment Research department at Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC. Eric is a former football player who attended Northwestern University from 2012 to 2016.

Eric Olson has a Masters of Science in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University as well as a Bachelor's in Organizational Change from the same school.

Some direct reports include Brett Nebeker - Lead, Machine Learning, Megan Van Welie - Lead Sofware Engineer, and Ali Farid - Founding Data Scientist, Lead, Machine Learning.

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  • Co-Founder, CEO

    Current role