Madhusudan Raman (Madhu) explores beachhead markets and revenue ideas worldwide that ‘touch’ the connected consumer. An alum of the MIT Sloan Executive Strategy & Innovation Program and an Electrical Engineer, he employs Agile techniques in leading Verizon’s Waltham Innovation Center based Ideation Accelerator Practice in demonstrating Verizon relevance with actionable Big Data insights. Madhu’s Contextual Service inventions include seventeen granted or in process patents leveraging Big Data insight harnessing predictive models, the cloud and consumer mobility. Related SaaS innovations include contextual brand marketing, data-anonymization, safe haven marketing, contextual privacy, next generation usage based insurance and high velocity anomaly