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About our founder

15 years making big brands' strategies work.

I'm DJ Kolapudi, founder at NOD. For 15+ years I've worked both sides of growth marketing — designing measurement and analytics strategies for 100+ Fortune 500 brands, then running the operations inside their teams to make those strategies deliver.

Too often a strategy looks great in a presentation and then nothing changes. NOD develops your strategy and builds the measurement, data, and decision systems that turn it into day-to-day momentum.

Track record

15+
years in measurement & analytics
100+
Fortune 500 brands
Global
engagements across NA, EMEA, APAC & LATAM
Billions
in media spend managed

Industries

  • Retail
  • Consumer goods (CPG)
  • Beauty
  • Apparel & fashion
  • Consumer electronics & appliances
  • Healthcare & pharma
  • Technology
  • Financial services
  • Media & entertainment
  • Retail media networks
  • Beverages & alcohol
  • Energy
Why NOD exists

A strategy only works when your team can run it.

Almost every company NOD works with has a strategy on paper. Far fewer have a working one — a plan that drives day-to-day decisions, not just quarterly reviews.

A strategy in a slide deck doesn't change anything on its own. It only works when it's built into how your team operates: the tools they use, the numbers they track, and how decisions get made.

NOD builds that operating layer. We take the strategy that already exists (or clarify it with you), then build the measurement, data, and decision cadence that makes it actually drive the business.

APPROVEDTHE DECKTHE OPERATING SYSTEM
How NOD works

What working with NOD looks like.

Senior judgment, built into how your team actually operates.

  1. Think.

    100+ Fortune 500 brands

    You work directly with me — someone who's led global analytics and measurement practices for 100+ Fortune 500 brands. The person who designs the strategy is the person in the room making it work, not a junior team you never met in the pitch.

  2. Build.

    Every day, not quarterly

    I don't hand over a deck and walk away. I build the strategy into the tools, data, and decisions your team already uses, so it drives the business every day — not just in the quarterly review.

  3. Grow.

    $100Ms driven

    Every decision ties back to a number that matters. That discipline has driven hundreds of millions in revenue and cost savings across my career, and it's exactly how we'll judge the work together.

Proof

  1. Mix rebalanced; growth restarted with defensible attribution.

    Fortune 500 retail brand6 months
    Impact
    +40% performance$20M revenue−33% waste
    Challenge
    Spending across every channel; no reliable read on what worked.
    What I did
    Rebuilt the measurement foundation; shifted budget to the channels that were genuinely driving revenue.
  2. Won and retained new client business off the same playbook.

    Independent growth agency9 months
    Impact
    New retainers wonRetained on retainer
    Challenge
    Needed senior strategic depth and execution they could deliver under their own brand.
    What I did
    Embedded as their strategy-and-operations partner; built the work and evolved it alongside their clients.
    NOD identified the growth, built the work to capture it, and kept evolving with us.

    Managing Partner, growth agency

  3. Measurement debt cleared; CFO sign-off restored.

    Enterprise media holdcoQuarter 1, ongoing
    Impact
    1,000+ streams unifiedCFO sign-off restored
    Challenge
    Dashboards everywhere; leadership couldn't trust the numbers; decisions stalled.
    What I did
    Consolidated 1,000+ data streams into one governed foundation with shared definitions.
What we're writing

How NOD thinks.

Frameworks for making better growth decisions — not a marketing feed.

  • AI Strategy Isn't Your Problem. AI Operations Is.

  • Your Dashboards Aren't the Problem. Your Architecture Is.

Next step

If this sounds like your problem, start a conversation.

Thirty minutes. No pitch. We'll figure out whether NOD is the right fit by the end of the call.