Ken Cassar is the principal analyst at Slice Intelligence where he oversees Slice’s research agenda; identifying and contextualizing e-commerce industry trends from Slice’s panel of 5 million U.S. online consumers. Cassar brings a rich online retail background to Slice Intelligence. Most recently, he was the senior vice president, analytic solutions at Nielsen, where he collaborated with clients to help them understand and adapt to the impact of e-commerce and digital advertising on their businesses. Prior to Nielsen, Cassar was an analyst at Jupiter Research, where he was an early thought leader, trusted adviser and media source on e-commerce. His prescient outlook on fledgling e-commerce industry was a key contributor to Jupiter’s dominance as a digital media zeitgeist at the dawn of the Internet. Cassar is a regular contributor to RetailWire’s Braintrust, a member of the Path to Purchase Institute’s faculty, a guest lecturer at New York University and the University of Connecticut and is frequently quoted as an e-commerce industry expert. He has an MBA and Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Connecticut.